Level crossing cyclist in 'nearest miss' with train

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

The driver was forced to apply the emergency brake.

for the purpose of......?

perhaps it would result in her being slightly less dead once struck?

It's SOP, as MattJ said, if she had been hit then the train would have to be stopped, the police called, the line closed for an hour or two as the police try to work out whether she was just being incredibly stupid or someone pushed her, and they have to pick up the remains too. The driver meanwhile is taken off shift for the rest of the day, offered therapy for their experience and most likely given some leave to recover, not sure how long for though.
Sometimes they don't die, sometimes through a quirk of physics they are still alive when dragged under the train for a while, although the speed of the train depends a lot.

Here's a couple of instances of 'One Unders' as they're called on the tube and the response to them from the services: