The excuse that the GPS led them there is so ridiculous. Even if it did, you should absolutely have the awareness to determine that you can't drive on railway tracks and override that decision.

Drivers need to be held more accountable for the moronic things they do. You make mistakes with gigantic machines and people get hurt or die. It's not a, "whoops."

My instinct says stay alive but the GPS says keep going straight.

"Several miles" is incorrect. Measuring on Google Earth says 500m, or 0.3 miles.
Still a fuckup but much less impressive

Its not several miles, but it was at least a quarter mile. The station is elevated, but about a quarter mile away the tracks are level with the road. They are up a large curb, there is "no car" signage and you have to literally drive off a road, over a gap and onto train tracks, but its not miles away. You can almost see the station from the place she likely entered:

There apparently is video footage from the transit system, but it wasent been released yet so we don't know where she entered the tracks yet.

Seattle's local satire site "theneedling" hitting all the right notes as usual:

https://theneedling.com/2026/06/03/crazy-socialist-mayor-of-seattle-says-cars-not-allowed-to-drive-on-trains-only-train-tracks/

Can't park there, mate.

So she drove her card on a very small set of rails for several miles? And she only slipped from the rails when she entered the station? That's actually an impressive driving feat.

hey its me playing gta 3

All we had to do was follow the damn train, CJ

This is what you get when you build light rail at street level without adequate crossing barriers.

Seattle’s Link light rail was built through the city’s south side through the middle of Martin Luther King Junior Way South (“MLK”) with street level crossings for cars and pedestrians, for miles and miles, without any physical barriers like bollards or traditional railroad crossing gates, just flashing lights. Trains are hitting cars all the time here, and it’s incredibly easy for a car to drive right onto the tracks.

There has long been a need for a major safety improvement project to correct this, but Sound Transit is having major project funding problems lately regarding a new line being built, so we’re basically stuck with this problem for at least 20 more years.

Update: Including a photo from the original thread. This is where the driver drove up. The photos from the original post were taken at the light rail station, which is up the rail ramp in this photo and to the left.

You can see concrete curbs here separating the at-grade rail from the street (which are easy enough to drive over), but even those curbs disappear at street crossings.

That's the new CRT, Car Rapid Transit. In the future they might link it with several car.

Hold up. This is in SEATTLE?! How did they even get the car to the track? This is like getting a car onto a subway track.

Edit: ahhh. In other pictures, it's down south where the track gets to ground level. Also, utah plates.

And they're still alive? Fucking crazy.

People are saying she was following google maps but had it set to transit instead of driving by mistake

This is probably very dangerous, but also hilarious.

Critical think is dead. Long live critical thinking.

Also booze is doing GREAT

You mean that's not the car free expressway for entitled douchebags?

What else could it be for?!?

in gta?

Driver must have thought they got the new update to electrify to charge while driving.

Fucking Mazda drivers... Checks driveway... Oh wait, I am one of them