Japan: 2014 Keikyu Express Jump Footage Resurfaces From the Driver’s Seat [NSFL]

A 2014 clip of a man stepping in front of a Keikyu express at Yokohama Station just did another lap online, for no obvious reason. It’s over a decade old at this point.

The driver’s cab camera keeps rolling the whole time, right up until the windshield goes from clean to spiderwebbed in a single cut.

Video

The camera sits exactly where the driver’s eyes would be, looking straight down the elevated tracks as a Misakiguchi-bound rapid limited express rolls through Yokohama on the afternoon of May 25, 2014. It clears a platform with a handful of people standing around, passes a signal, and heads into the covered part of the station where a proper crowd is lined up along the edge.

When the shot comes back, the windshield is cracked clean across the lower left side, spiderwebbed glass hanging in place and not going anywhere. The train does not stop. It rolls straight past the packed platform with the glass still hanging there, and the driver sitting calmly in frame, hand near the controls, eyes locked forward like it’s any other afternoon. That’s the whole clip: a normal commute, then a windshield that isn’t normal anymore, and a driver who doesn’t flinch either way.

What the Thread Said

A good chunk of the thread swore the footage had to be AI-generated, which says more about how often this stuff circulates now than about the clip itself. The repair-bill jokes showed up fast too, people guessing out loud what a shattered windshield runs the railway. One commenter deadpanned that anyone thinking about this route should just go vent to a chatbot instead. The lone dissenter wasn’t moved at all, saying some movie called Execution Rider stages it better. Plenty of others just said they’d seen this one before, which tracks for an 11-year-old clip making the rounds again.

Train Suicides in Japan: 600 a Year, Under 3% of the Total

The Keikyu Line crash in the video is the kind of railway incident that keeps making headlines in Japan, and suicide is usually the reason behind these stoppages.

• 1,985 of 3,145 rail accidents on 15 Tokyo-area lines were suicides, 63% over fiscal 2005-2014 (Toyo Keizai).
• About 600 railway suicides happen in Japan each year, under 3% of the roughly 20,000 suicides nationwide.
• Japan’s 2021 suicide rate was 16.5 per 100,000, the highest in the G7; the government wants it under 13.0 by 2026.
• Platform doors are the fix: 3,000 platforms nationwide by FY2025, rising to 4,000 by FY2030.

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