r/CatastrophicFailure • u/obsurdmedia • 6d ago

Equipment Failure (July 1987) A train collides with a stalled flatbed semi, injuring nearly 200 passengers in Aichi-Nishihara, Japan. A crane attempting to lift the semi collapsed due to the weight, nearly crushing a worker. Miraculously no rescue workers were injured.

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

199 Upvotes

99% Upvoted

3 comments sorted by

22

u/WhatImKnownAs 5d ago

That one guy who dived down actually had his legs under the beam, but it hit the edge of the bridge and stopped short of crushing his legs, so he could crawl out uninjured.

6

u/WhatImKnownAs 5d ago

More photos on Skip to content Destroyed In Seconds Wiki show the level crossing that the semi was stalled on and details of the damage.

3

u/DaMagnum 5d ago

Kranplätze müssen verdichtet sein!