A man’s quick thinking rescued a woman whose vehicle was stuck in the middle of a railroad crossing. Camera footage shows Debbie Spoelstra driving her car over the train tracks when she panicked as the crossing gates began to lower. She quickly backed up, but her vehicle got caught while the train continued to speed down the tracks without stopping.
Woman saved within seconds of potential train accident
In August, Spoelstra found her red SUV trapped at a railroad crossing at Bridge Road and Dixie Highway in Hobe Sound, as reported by WPBF and KCRA 3.
“I was in a panic. What I did is, I put my car in reverse, and apparently the gate got stuck on top of my car on the antenna,” she recalled. “So, when I tried to reverse, it would not let me reverse. I was kind of frozen. I sat there, I saw the train.”
That’s when Josiah Baur, the driver of a car who had stopped on the other side of the tracks, sprung into action…