Signal Failure, Speeding Train: Deadly Mix Causes West Bengal Train Crash!

Signal Failure, Speeding Train: Deadly Mix Causes West Bengal Train Crash!

At 8.55am, the goods train rammed into the back of the Kanchanjunga Express just before Rangapani town and around 10km away from New Jalpaiguri station. A combination of a signalling fault on the tracks before the New Jalpaiguri station and human error by the driver of the freight train are likely to have led to a deadly collision in West Bengal that killed nine people and injured dozens, said railway officials, adding that the commissioner of railway safety (CRS) has launched a probe into the accident. “The actual cause of the…

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