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A mislabeling of the cables that control the automatic track signaling system has led to India’s biggest rail accident of the 21st century, killing nearly 290 people and
A mislabeling of the cables that control the automatic track signaling system has led to India’s biggest rail accident of the 21st century, killing nearly 290 people and injuring a thousand last month.
This negligenceThe accident, committed in 2015 by communications and communications personnel, was not resolved in subsequent years and led to confusion in the repair work carried out on the road in the hours before the accident, the incident report says. accident Commission for Railway Safety (CRS), which includes the newspaper indian express.
As a result, the first of passenger trains the participant in the accident stepped onto a track occupied by a parked freight train, which he collided with and derailed. At this point, both were collided by another passenger railway passing through the station.
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The incident occurred on June 2 in the eastern state of Odisha and claimed the lives of about 290 people. over a thousand woundedmaking it the largest railway accident in India in the 21st century.
A wiring error told workers at the nearby Bahanaga Bazaar station that the first passenger train would continue on the vacated track instead of switching to the one occupied by the freight rail.
The report highlights error chain what caused this result, from the initial failure in 2015 to subsequent revision works that did not fix it, with a special focus on 2018 when technicians changed the system without realizing the error.
In this sense, the report found that the same error occurred two weeks before the accident on another section of the railway in India, although in this case it was corrected in time.
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Indian railway network It has undergone significant modernization in recent years with the opening of new stations, semi-fast trains and the development of new technologies designed to reduce the high accident rate.
In 2021 alone, 17,993 people were registered in India. railway accidents This resulted in 16,431 deaths and 1,852 injuries, according to the latest report from the National Criminal Records Administration.
With 68,000 kilometers of route, it is the fourth longest in the world after the United States, Russia and China, has about 21,650 trains and 7,349 stations across the country, and carries about 23 million passengers daily.
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