From Belgium, with love. The stupid music is not from me but from Infrabel themselves. They didn't release the raw footage.
Infrabel shares mind-boggling footage of car on train tracks: ‘Thought it was AI for a moment’
‘Strange things sometimes happen on our tracks,’ writes Infrabel in a video posted online by the rail network operator itself. And the footage is indeed mind-boggling: a car is driving on the tracks before turning onto the road at a level crossing. Infrabel is filing a complaint with the police.
‘Insane,’ is how Infrabel spokesperson Thomas Baeken describes the footage that the rail network operator shared on social media on Monday. They show a car driving from the railway tracks towards a level crossing in Mouscron on 16 December, then turning onto the road and driving away.
The footage comes from an Infrabel technical camera and was viewed with astonishment by the company's own staff. ‘We ourselves doubted whether it was real and not AI video,’ says Baeken. ‘It goes without saying that this is extremely dangerous. Imagine if a train had been approaching at full speed and collided head-on with that car. There wouldn't be much left of it.’
It is not clear where the car entered the tracks. ‘Perhaps via a level crossing further down the line,’ says Baeken, ‘but that's just a guess.’ Infrabel is still trying to determine exactly what happened by reviewing footage from other cameras.
The railway network operator is taking the footage to the police and will be filing a complaint. ‘This really defies imagination,’ Baeken repeats. ‘I've been with Infrabel for a number of years now, but I've never seen anything like this before.’
Infrabel also emphasises that people can call the free emergency number 1711 if they see similar or other strange or dangerous situations at a level crossing. ‘This will put you through directly to our traffic control centre, which can immediately halt train traffic if necessary.’
Edit: u/tontome pointed out newspapers claim the car was trying to escape a police pursuit.
You know that many decades ago Belgians could get a license by just paying a fee and never taking any classes? That's where the fear of belgian drivers comes from and why they are many times ridiculed. This must be one of the still living ones.
Or they just came back from the future, what do I know...
Hey, I'm intelligence impaired, and the car countdown was helpful, but next time could you include a big red circle where the car is? Maybe a couple arrows and an animated laughing emoji? Thanks.
Straight to the alignment shop
From Belgium, with love. The stupid music is not from me but from Infrabel themselves. They didn't release the raw footage.
Edit: u/tontome pointed out newspapers claim the car was trying to escape a police pursuit.
Ok, next time I am in Belgium and see a similar situation, I am definitely calling 1711, count me in. I mean, it's Belgium, anything can happen!
"Hello! Seen that train thing you're on about!"
You know what. I wasn’t expecting it to come from, THAT direction… Element of surprise?
That’s what she said ….. she’s sitting beside me watching it too
Looks like there's an actual train coming from the right too.
The engineer was likely as surprised as we were.
Yeah. That seems like an emotional roller coaster.
There's a car on the tracks!
It jumped into the crossing!
It's escaped the crossing!
Whew!
Yeah, and fortunately for the car driver, it was coming to a halt. Maybe there's a small station just before the crossroads
I mean, the train driver can almost certainly see down the track, since he's not restricted to the tiny slice we can see.
So he probably saw the car from a fairly long distance, and stopped where he did to allow the car to get off the track.
You know that many decades ago Belgians could get a license by just paying a fee and never taking any classes? That's where the fear of belgian drivers comes from and why they are many times ridiculed. This must be one of the still living ones.
Or they just came back from the future, what do I know...
Hey, I'm intelligence impaired, and the car countdown was helpful, but next time could you include a big red circle where the car is? Maybe a couple arrows and an animated laughing emoji? Thanks.
Blame Infrabel, not OP, for this one lol
Please also add a slowdown effect and repeat it several times.
r/unexpected
If you look closely as the car goes by you can see it's Bill Murray and a couple of drunk guys looking for flapjacks.
Bill Murray to Phil: Don't drive angry!
They identify as a train
Bitch, you are a dumbass.
Wasn't expecting that!
I’m glad they gave us a car countdown, I would’ve missed it
Who else is scratching their head?
He's used this route many times
One of the best chase scenes in a movie. :)
"It's not the volts that'll kill you, it's the amps".
my jaw dropped...
It was actually a pursuit. Here the article from the news (in french) The train was coming from Lille, FR to Mouscron,Be https://www.lavenir.net/regions/wallonie-picarde/mouscron/2025/12/29/voiture-fuyant-par-le-rail-a-mouscron-infrabel-a-diffuse-la-video-KW47TUEC4RFY3GKCH66KIXFNR
The exact location https://maps.app.goo.gl/L8FkQPmfPDZnHVvw6
Merci. You're missing a letter in the link (M at the end)
Of course it's a Peugeot
I thought it was a Kia lol
Hmmmm…didnt expect that
This is actually "Bitch, I'm an e-Tron"
He came from the past.