No idea how common it is these days, but it's obvious from the photo why even a minor collision could result in mass carnage. What it speaks to is a combo of extreme poverty and fatalism.
Posted on 06/02/2023 6:59:28 PM PDT by CFW
Atrain crash in India has killed 207 people and left roughly 900 injured.
The Friday incident saw two passenger trains collide with a freight train in the Odisha state city of Balasore, CNN reported. The cause remains unknown as of press time, though authorities have indicated that rescue activities remain ongoing.
"We are only working (at) sending additional doctors, ambulances, buses, so all those things we are doing so we have not thought of asking what happened, how it happened," State Chief Secretary Pradeep Jena told the local CNN affiliate.
More than 200 people were killed and hundreds injured after multiple trains collided in India on Friday evening, according to a local official, in what has been described as a “violent” crash.
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AI failed, again!
“cause remains unknown “
...hmmmm ... I would guess ...now this is just my guess mind you
... but could it be because they were on the same track..
...just saying...
TWO passenger trains collided with ONE freight train? How does that happen?
” routed to when you call tech support. “
snort ... cough ... that’s funny ..
I hope your ashamed of yourself ...
Note that a freight train has two ends.
“How does that happen?”
That question has already been answered previously in the thread.
snort...
or maybe when one of the controllers turned off his connection he didn’t turn it back on in time(IT support reference)
or they were all on hold and just couldn’t take it any more
That is horrible.
So...you're saying the passenger trains got the freight train coming and going...
Lots of Indians around here………nice people .
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From cnn:
“The deadly collision occurred after one passenger train collided into coaches of an already derailed passenger train that had tossed into the opposite track, Indian authorities said.”
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No idea how common it is these days, but it's obvious from the photo why even a minor collision could result in mass carnage. What it speaks to is a combo of extreme poverty and fatalism.
Thanks for the laugh. LOL
*Could have been worse?
This happens a lot in India. Their infrastructure is ancient and they are overloaded with people. Shame the Brits ever left.
Remember when those kids were riding the trains into the country during Obama’s admin? It’s like that in India, but also with regular passenger cars already at double capacity.
The BO would gag a buzzard. Not to mention deathray-class curry farts. And that’s just on an elevator at Bechtel. Voice of experience here.
Isn’t that the country where the trains are packed to over flowing and people ride on top and hanging onto the sides?
Gomez Addams proposed a 3 train crash in one episode of the Addams Family, but did he ever actually do it?
Seriously, this incident is pretty awful...
Having been on commuter trains going ~80 mph with another train passing in the opposite direction likely just as fast, and seemingly an arms length(?) away, one becomes acutely aware that if either train is “disrupted”, the other is hosed too...
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