Three youths were spotted lying on tracks in the path of an oncoming tram in what has been called the "latest craze".
A driver captured the incident unfold on his dashboard camera on Tuesday night in Nottingham.
The video appears to show at least three people on the tracks as a tram approaches the Holy Trinity stop, in Clifton, at around 6.45pm, Nottinghamshire Live reports.
Eyewitness Ian Arnold said: "I was just driving home and stopped at the lights when I saw it happen. They got up and caught the tram.
"I’ve seen people messing about near the tram before but never lying down on it. They were obviously doing it for a dare.
"It was shocking to see."
The 48-year-old from Clifton added: "I looked over and realised what they were doing. I got home and looked at the dashcam footage from my car.
"There was a tram coming round that you can see on the video."
Residents and councillors blasted the incident as a prank.
Robert Levers, 67, a retired delivery driver, said: "This is the latest craze, I believe: lay down in front of a tram seems to be to me anyway. I think it’s just a prank, a temporary prank.
"It’s just a reflection of the civilisation and society we live in nowadays."
Mr Levers, of the Clifton estate, said the incident happened on a slow section of the track.
Councillors, meanwhile, feared such behaviour could spread and needed to be "nipped in the bud" immediately.
Councillor Roger Steel, Conservative councillor for Clifton North, said: "It’s a stupid, irresponsible prank and they need to stop.
"This sort of irresponsible behaviour has a possibility of spreading. It needs nipping in the bud now."
Councillor Steel said the incident could have led to a "serious accident".
"If someone leaves it to the last minute and then trips, falls over onto the track and the tram does not have a stopping distance, there could be a really serious accident," he said.
A spokesman for Nottingham Express Transit (NET), which runs the tram network, said those involved put their lives on the line.
He added: "We occasionally receive reports of this kind of immature and irresponsible behaviour that can obviously be dangerous.
"All our drivers are fully trained in defensive driving techniques.
"But this behaviour represents an avoidable hazard that we could do without."
Nottinghamshire Police received no reports in relation to this incident.
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