Police in India have opened a criminal investigation into a train crash that has killed at least 275 people, as ITV News Asia Correspondent Debi Edward reports Relatives of victims of India's deadliest train crash in decades are in the process of identifying their loved ones after an ...
Meanwhile, the freight train was parked on the adjacent loop line. A malfunction with the signal system is suspected to have led to the accident. The driver of the Coromandel Express was routed to continue straight on the main line with a green signal, but the track diverted the train to ...
An investigation has been launched in India after a driverless goods train travelled more than 43 miles (70km) at high speeds before coming to a stop, reports have said. No one was injured and a potentially major accident was averted after officials helped reduce the speed of the train by ...
In 2012, an Indian government report said about 15,000 people are killed every year in train accidents in the country, caused mainly by outdated equipment and overstretched staff. The country’s worst railway accident occurred in 1981, when a passenger train fell into the Baghmati River in nor...
India has launched an official investigation into a train crash that killed at least 275 people and injured about 1,200.Officials said they believe a signal failure may have caused the crash, or collision. The accident happened Friday in the district of Balasore, in the eastern state of ...
N Rameshkrishnan, A Sathyakumar, S Balakumar, A M Hassan, R Rajaraman, J Padmanaban, The New In-Depth, At-the- Scene, Accident Investigation Database in India, International Research Council on Biomechanics of Injury (IRCOBI) Conference, 2013....
This paper describes the development of delta‐V and pre‐crash speeds by crash type and vehicle type for crashes on Indian roads as part of Road Accident Sampling System – India (RASSI), an in‐depth database of India road accident data. In addition, it highlights some of the difficulties...
The Indian Railways has also announced a compensation of 350,000 rupees (7,500 U.S. dollars) to the families of those killed and 50,000 rupees (900 U.S. dollars) to those seriously injured in the train accident. The mishap has also severely affected movement of trains in the region as...
NEW DELHI, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- Two teenagers were crushed to death in Indian capital New Delhi by a speeding train while they were busy posing for selfies at a railway track, officials said Tuesday. The duo was killed on Saturday at the Anand Vihar railway station in East Delhi. Relati...
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