Video - seconds to spareLuxembourg car smashes through train barrier moments before train passes

Gaël Arellano
The dramatic footage is from Virton (Belgium, about 40km from the Luxembourg border) and was shot on 31 January.

Moments after the barriers come down, a Luxembourgish BMW hurtles down the road and smashes through them and across the tracks, then keeps driving off.

What the driver likely doesn’t know is that a freight train arrived at full speed just five seconds later.

Our colleagues at 5Minutes contacted Infrabel, a Belgian train company, who confirmed that the car was indeed from Luxembourg, but did not have any further detail.

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