Citation
(2001), "Railway accidents", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 10 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/dpm.2001.07310eac.004
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2001, MCB UP Limited
Railway accidents
Railway accidents
24 May 2001 – Ovrazhnoye area, Russia
A train ploughed into a passenger bus in Kaliningrad yesterday, killing 12 people and injuring 18, the Emergency Situations Ministry said. Viktor Beltsov, a ministry spokesman, said the collision occurred at a rail crossing near the village of Ovrazhnoye in the western enclave. Nine of the passengers were killed on the spot, and three more died in the hospital, Beltsov said. The train did not jump the tracks, ORT television reported. The bus was crushed beyond repair, it said. The Railways Ministry blamed the accident on the bus driver, saying he passed several vehicles that were waiting for the train to pass and ran a red light at the railroad crossing to drive onto the tracks, Itar-Tass reported. The bus driver survived the crash and was taken to a local police station for questioning, Beltsov said.
26 May 2001 – Azampur area, Bangladesh
Two trains collided head-on near Azampur rail station on the Dhaka-Chittagong route early yesterday leaving at least ten people injured in Bangladesh, according to railway authorities. It is reported that train communications on Dhaka-Sylhet and Sylhet-Chittagong routes had been suspended for over five hours until 08.00, yesterday following the accident. Railway sources said the Chittagong-bound inter-city Udayan Express from Sylhet collided with Sylhet-bound Surma Mail from Dhaka at 03.00 at the outer signal of the station in Akhaura Upazila. The engine and a bogie of Udyan and two bogies of Surma slipped off the tracks after the collision. The disrupted train communications resumed at 08.00, after the derailed bogies were removed.
31 May 2001 – Lucknow area, India
A bus crowded with wedding guests ran into a speeding train at an unmanned railroad crossing in northern India today, killing 31 people and injuring 49, police said. The bus driver apparently failed to see the train at the crossing, and the bus was crushed. There was no gate or any railroad employee to regulate the traffic, said Vijay Kumar Tiwari, a police officer. The injured were hospitalized in the town of Kheri, 105 miles south-west of Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh State. The bus had seats for 60 people, but it was overcrowded with 80 wedding guests, Tiwari said.