Does a viral video claiming to capture a truck pushing car from a railway crossing with closed barriers actually show a real-life situation? No, that's not true: When it was first posted on social media, the clip was marked as containing AI content. An AI detection tool and manual analysis strongly suggested that the video was the product of generative AI.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) published on X by the @jozekw1803 account on Sept. 12, 2026. The caption read:
🚂 Przejazdy kolejowe. Zachowanie kierowcy samochodu dostawczego to mistrzostwo świata! 👏👏
As translated from Polish by DeepL, it meant:
🚂 Railroad crossings. The way this delivery truck driver handled the situation was world-class! 👏👏
The French text in the video shared in the post continued:
Un véhicule bloqué sur les rails... un train en approche... l'impact semble inévitable.
Here is a translation to English by DeepL:
A vehicle stuck on the tracks... a train approaching... a collision seems inevitable.
This is what the 7-second video looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @jozekw1803 on X.)
The following is the story told in the video. As a sedan gets blocked from leaving the railroad crossing by the barrier in front of it, the driver runs away. After that, a "delivery truck" that stopped outside the intersection pushes through the barriers to remove the car from the intersection just before the train comes.
The watermark seen on the right part of the screen in the first several seconds named the @trustmeboomer account (archived here) on TikTok the source of the video, and it indeed posted (archived here) the same clip much earlier, on July 29, 2026.
That account described itself as a "media outlet that tells the story the facts fail to show". It continued by saying: "Social experiment in progress."
The video in question was labeled as containing AI-generated content, as seen in the screenshot below automatically translated to English:
(Image source: post by @trustmeboomer on TikTok.)
AI detection tool FauxLens said that the video was 95% likely to have been made by AI:
(Image source: FauxLens.)
Several manually found signs further cast doubt on the authenticity of the video. One was the truck's blank license plate:
(Image source: post by @trustmeboomer on TikTok.)
Another was the hands of the sedan driver who crawled out of the car to move past the barrier that left his car stuck on the rail tracks: His fingers seem to merge into the road surface:
(Image source: post by @trustmeboomer on TikTok.)
The road markings disappeared away from the intersection in a way inconsistent with real road design:
(Image source: post by @trustmeboomer on TikTok.)
The video also shows gibberish on the license plate of the sedan:
(Image source: post by @trustmeboomer on TikTok.)
Finally, there is no driver behind the wheel of the much-praised truck that rammed into the sedan abandoned at the intersection:
(Image source: post by @trustmeboomer on TikTok.)
Additionally, a reverse image search on Google (archived here) didn't show any credible media outlets publishing any reporting containing the video reviewed in this fact check.
