Click to play videoChennai: The train collision between a local Electro Motor Unit (EMU) train and a goods train in Chennai has irked many.
Though the mangled mass that lay in a heap after the accident looked like the aftermath of any accident, this one is a pointer to the great negligence on part of the Railway authorities.
The mishap left six people dead and eleven injured.
What exactly happened:
- Some miscreants got into an empty local train parked in Chennai's Moore Market Complex.
- The unauthorised people who entered the train’s driver cabin then went on a joy ride for about seven kilometers at double the normal speed to the next station - Vyasarpadi.
"Some unauthorised people, miscreants started the train. It went at a very high speed. It is supposed to reach Vyasarpadi in eight minutes; it reached in just four instead. It also went on the wrong line without signals and collided with a departmental train coming in from the opposite direction. That is how the collision took place,” said the Acting General Manager of the Southern Railways, M S Jayanth.
How did this happen:
- How did outsiders manage to get into the controls of a train standing at a station?
- How did the miscreants also manage to drive a train out of the railway station?
- When the train started 30 minutes off schedule, didn’t anyone notice the unannounced, unapproved change?
- Were the people who drove the train just miscreants or were they a group with links to terror outfits?
- Were the other stations forewarned about the train jacking?
The railway authorities say that they are looking into any security lapses and the police for its part are saying that the case is under investigation.
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