Somewhere, in the middle of a vast prairie, a factory sits churning out award winning cars in ’round the clock shifts by happy employees.

The seventh-generation Chevy Malibu is a popular little mid-sized sedan and is sent from this spot to the far reaches of where buyers will settle for buying them. This is what happens when an undelivered Malibu confronts a train.

The details of the accident on the police report state that the employee dropped the manifest and was in an area near the tracks that is unlit and that the flat bed train car was difficult to see late in the fading sun.

Malibu Meets Train

Rumors present a different story. The employee went to run an errand (allegedly to the Qwik-Trip Mart and had asked fellow workers if they needed anything) in the fresh-off-the-line Malibu and was driving without a seatbelt at about 35mph towards a railway crossing where the train was paused, red signals flashing, and was distracted by text messaging. The train began backing up just after the hit and spun the car and driver out from underneath.

“How was your day at work, Honey?”

Crunch

It is interesting to note that the airbags deployed, the worker was not injured, the windshield did not crack and the back doors are fine. Not bad for a 35mph head-on crash. There is still a lot of good car left there but it is being totalled and all of it will be scrapped.

All in a day’s work.