[kellyhound]

Dramatic video shows a motorist driving onto tracks in front of an oncoming Metro Blue Line train in the Central-Alameda area of South Los Angeles, causing a collision and prompting a warning from officials Wednesday.

The crash occurred about 10:55 a.m. Tuesday near the intersection of 55th Street and Long Beach Avenue.

The video shows the driver turning left in front of the oncoming train after slowing down near the tracks. The light-rail train then plows into the BMW at the intersection, apparently destroying the car.

From the severity of the crash, it's not clear how the motorist survived, but police said he was not seriously injured.

"This driver made it out alive with only scrapes & bruises,". "We are grateful this was not a fatal collision."

A photo of the mangled BMW shows the car's front end was smashes to pieces and its windshield shattered.

The driver was released from the hospital Wednesday morning.

It appears that only one gate arm was down in the intersection, allowing the driver to proceed through.

[William May]

Darwin. He had to cut his turn short, because the gate was down. The gate alone should have been telling his brain there was a train coming.

[LrlynJy]

Good thing cars these days are made out of sardine cans. If that car was heavier and offered more resistance, driver might have died from impact instead of the car being thrown aside like a prairie bush on a bull's path.

[Broadjumper]

BMW..The Ultimate "You're a Stupid Motherfucker Machine..."

[Splay]

p=mv

[Berserk]

That... That is a special kind of stupid..

[Bad_Ash]

CA drivers are always so fucking oblivious. I live in CA again after being gone for 10 yrs and I'm like Fuck, I don't remember drivers being this bad!