India : Train crash kills 15 amid severe safety and fare issues

India Train crash : India Train System has terrible safety record, people perish at crossings
India Train crash : India Train System has terrible safety record, people perish at crossings

India train crash : 15 people have been killed, 3 injured in the latest train accident in northern India, the train ramming into a van trying to cross an unguarded and unmanned railroad tracks.

New Delhi / NationalTurk – The people killed were all stuffed and traveling in the van, stated Suhas L.Y., the top official of Hathras district of Uttar Pradesh state in North India, where the train crash occurred. The wreck occurred amid raising political tensions over a plan to raise fares to absorb the safety upgrade costs on the railroad network in India.

‘The jeep carrying 19 people was thrown 20 feet (6m) away,” a state home ministry official who declined to give his name told, adding that 15 passengers were killed instantly and four others were critically injured.

India Train crash : yet another one

India’s rail network carries 18 million peopleon a daily basis and is still the main form of long-distance travel despite fierce competition from private airlines. India train services and railroad network has had issues with its safety record.

India reported 93 train crashes during 2010-11, official figures show. Many rail crossings in India are unmanned and lack functioning signals, raising the risk of collisions for vehicle drivers attempting to cross.

India Train crash : India Train System has terrible safety record, people perish at crossings

The cash-strapped train system has a notoriously terrible safety record, with a recent official report revealing almost 15,000 people are killed every year crossing rail tracks – a figure that the Indian government described as a ‘ massacre’. In Turkey, a country trying tu subside its casualities number in traffic accidents, we use the word ‘ traffic terror ‘ for this.

Indian Authorities hint that more than 40% of train accidents occur at unguarded or unmanned railway crossings.

The last major train accident in India occurred in July 2011 when a packed express train travelling from Kolkata to New Delhi derailed at high speed in the state of Uttar Pradesh, killing 69 people.

India’s worst train rail crash happenned in 1981 when a train plunged into a river in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, killing over 800 people.

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