A Maryborough man's stop for a call of nature on Saturday night turned to disaster when his car was hit by a fully laden freight train.





The impact of the crash lifted the Commodore station wagon 4m into the air and shunted it 40m down the road, leaving it a twisted ball of metal.





Luckily the south-bound freight train stayed on the rails and the driver stopped it about a kilometre down the track to assess the damage.





Emergency services were called to the Hermans Rd railway crossing at Gunalda about 7.45pm.

What the actual smeg? Dickhead parked his car on a crossing to take a whiz? Seems legit.

I fail to see how any one could be so stupid as to park or even try a U turn on a level crossing at all. Taking a whizz was he, he would not have left the local waterhole would he. Most probably.

He decided to pull into Hermans Rd, a small dead-end road just off the highway south of Gunalda, to make a comfort stop about 7.45pm. When he reversed the vehicle to turn it around and restart his journey home the back wheels of the Commodore got hung up on the railway lines.

The Darwin Award is for an exact of stupidity that jeopardises the recipient's chances of reproducing. The owner of the vehicle did not actually get his genitals burnt. Nothing caught on fire.

It's worth reading the article to which JJBC linked.

He decided to pull into Hermans Rd, a small dead-end road just off the highway south of Gunalda, to make a comfort stop about 7.45pm. When he reversed the vehicle to turn it around and restart his journey home the back wheels of the Commodore got hung up on the railway line.



He might have found himself caught up in a massive bog

The Darwin Award is for an exact of stupidity that jeopardises the recipient's chances of reproducing. The owner of the vehicle did not actually get his genitals burnt. Nothing caught on fire.

It's worth reading the article to which JJBC linked.

Man fined $800 after car was smashed by train

   Averyll Loft
   23rd May 2013 6:31 AM

A MARYBOROUGH man whose car was smashed by a freight train after he stopped to relieve himself on the side of the Bruce Hwy has been fined $800.

Hayden Vincent Benatar Cockburn, 24, on Wednesday pleaded guilty in the Maryborough Magistrates Court to driving without due care and attention.

Prosecutor Nicole Kunkel told the court that at 6.30pm on April 13 Cockburn was returning home to Maryborough when he decided to stop for a toilet break and turned into Hermans Rd at Gunalda.

He crossed a set of "clearly marked" railway lines and parked his car on the side of the road.

She said when he returned to his car, he reversed directly back onto the railway lines, causing his back tyres to become lodged in the stones alongside the track.

"He tried to free the car for 15 to 20 minutes," she said.

Cockburn's frustration at not being able to move his car soon turned into horror when he heard a train approaching and saw the boom gates start to lower.

"The freight train collided with the rear of the vehicle, throwing it 50 metres," Snr Const Kunkel said.

"The (train) driver activated the emergency stop. No one was injured, he was the only person onboard."

Snr Const Kunkel said a boom gate was taken out by the car and all rail traffic along the line had to be stopped - but there was no restitution sought by Queensland Rail.

"The car was unrepairable."

Cockburn asked Magistrate Annette Hennessy to spare him his licence as he drove 800km to and from work each week.

She agreed that she would not disqualify him due to his limited traffic history and the fact that the incident was unintended.

http://www.frasercoastchronicle.com.au/news/fined-for-rail-accident/1878580/

The owner of the vehicle did not actually get his genitals burnt. Nothing caught on fire.

In spite of his surname...