Drivers Stuck In Level Crossing Make Lucky Escape Just In Time

Two drivers narrowly escaped being crushed to death by a train when they became trapped in a level crossing.

Dramatic footage shows a panicked woman abandoning her car on the tracks before she flees behind a signal barrier as an oncoming train smashes into the vehicle.

While a driver whose dashcam captured the nerve-wrecking near miss manages to reverse out of harms way seconds before the train's arrival.

US media reported the motorists were about to cross a railroad when the barriers suddenly dropped in High Point, North Carolina, USA.