Video of a man's near-fatal encounter with a locomotive has been released in the United States in a bid to raise public awareness of safety around train tracks.
The video shows several pedestrians ignoring boom gates and sirens as an express train approaches a station in Redwood City, south of San Francisco. Moments later, a man lagging behind the main group runs across, a split second before the train passes.
The man has not been idenitifed.
The incident look place in February, according to Caltrain, a communter rail operator in the San Francisco and Santa Clara counties of California.
Trains travelling the route can reach a maximum speed of 127 kilometres an hour.
Caltrain said such incidents slow the system down as they have to be investigated just like collisions.
