A surveillance camera recorded a frightnening scene early Tuesday morning in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, when a bus collided with an oil tanker train, causing it to derail.

According to the video, the accident occurred at around 05:00. Two buses were shown approaching the railway crossing and neither was slowing down despite the signalman and signal lamps flashing as a warning for an oncoming train.

The first bus was able to pass the crossing before the train arrived, but when the second bus arrived seconds later, it had no time to stop. The crash caused two of the tankers to derail.

"This is a burst flashing signal light we use. You see it shows bright flashes. I gave the signal to the bus, but it was still going forward. This light is supposed to show the driver the signal within a 150-meter range. But when he drove in front of me, I saw his face with a confused look, and he was still sitting there like nothing happened," said Li Youshan, a signalman.

Luckily, the oil tankers were empty and there were no passengers on the bus except for the driver. No causalities were reported.

After the accident, officials from the local railway station immediately arrived at the scene and carried out emergency measures and organized rescue work. They had to bring in two cranes to lift the derailed tankers back onto the tracks and dispatched staff to push the damaged cars back to the railway factory.

Normal traffic resumed at the crossing later in the morning.

The bus driver has been detained by the police and an investigation into the specific cause of the accident is underway.
哈尔滨公交车与油罐货运火车相撞 火车车体脱轨
　23日凌晨4时50分许，在哈市道外区先锋路铁路道口处，一列货运油罐火车与一辆空载的14路公交车相撞，事故造成火车2节油罐脱轨，公交车驾驶员腿部受伤被困车内，随后被附近好心市民救出。
从这次事故来看，道口的铃声响起，值班人员已经着手放杆，并晃动手电筒示意停车，可令人遗憾的是，先是有一辆公交车闯了过去，紧接着这辆14路公交车就开过来了，值班人员怕栏杆撞到车，放到大约45度角的时候就停下了，此时列车开了过来，与公交车撞在了一起，造成这一事故。好在火车是货车、公交车是空车，如果是载满乘客的车辆，那后果会十分严重，想想就让人感到非常后怕。虽然说事故导致两节油罐脱轨、公交车驾驶员腿部受伤被急送医院救治，好在没有生命危险，实乃不幸中的万幸。但细细思量，还是驾驶员思想缺乏安全这根弦，如果不引起足够重视，采取切实可行措施加以改进，类似事故还会发生。

　　这一事故责任要如何划分，还要等相关部门调查结果才能有定论，不过笔者想借此给所有驾驶员提个醒，火车道口易多发事故，火车司机应该引起重视，在经过道口时亦要减速慢行，避免发生碰撞事故。其他车辆的驾驶员更是要把安全牢记于胸，严格遵守交通规则，做到安全驾驶。在经过道口、路口时更要多加注意，谨慎驾驶，绝不能心存侥幸，盲目闯道。