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Accidents at Unmanned Level Crossing

Accidents at Unmanned Level Crossing
Start Date :
Jan 01, 2015
Last Date :
Jul 17, 2015
04:15 AM IST (GMT +5.30 Hrs)
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Section 161 of Railway act indicates “If any person driving or leading a vehicle is negligent in crossing an unmanned level crossing, he shall be punishable with imprisonment ...

Section 161 of Railway act indicates “If any person driving or leading a vehicle is negligent in crossing an unmanned level crossing, he shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to one year.”

Section 131 of the Motor Vehicle Act indicates that “Every driver of a motor vehicle at the approach of any unguarded railway level crossing shall cause the vehicle to stop and the driver of the vehicle shall cause the conductor or cleaner or attendant or any other person in the vehicle to walk up to the level crossing and ensure that no train or trolley is approaching from either side and then pilot the motor vehicle across such level crossing, and where no conductor or cleaner or attendant or any other person is available in the vehicle, the driver of the vehicle shall get down from the vehicle himself to ensure that no train or trolley is approaching from either side before the railway track is crossed”

However due to non-following of relevant rules by the road users, many accidents are occurring resulting in loss of precious life  at unmanned level crossings.

Suggest solutions for reducing accidents at unmanned level crossings.

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deepak kumar
deepak kumar 11 years 8 months ago
I have idea-speed of sound in railways track approxi 5000m/s.when train will reach 3km before railways crossing we must attach a sound detector/sensor at crossing & detect sound & alarm will open.when train come at 1km crossing will close&alarm continue on.when train leave from crossing & reach 1km after crossing.now crossing will start to open& reach at 3km alarm will be closed . Whole process based on sound detection.
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vijay kumar
vijay kumar 11 years 8 months ago
To avoid Unmanned level crossing accidents, Rly should go for provision for GPS based alarm system on these gates which will go off sensing the approaching trains.
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sandesh jadhav
sandesh jadhav 11 years 8 months ago
We can keep our indian railway station clean and tidy using fear factor ,means:eye on public with using cctv live telecast on station tv because of this fear factor and eye on people lifestyle will help to understan ther problems and their habbits of living and most likly it will help us to mentain clean and geern railway station because of this human mentally thinks that someone is keeping eye on him and they automaticaly react on it by keeping them disipland and follow rules for clean india
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ritesh chandwadkar
ritesh chandwadkar 11 years 8 months ago
100 saal se hamare yaha ek railway nai ho rahi he... uska naam manmad indor railway line..plz sir duhle city devlop kijiye
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Kapil Jain
Kapil Jain 11 years 8 months ago
To improve railway services, it needs to have more and more funds, and for that certain new ideas are important, eg. proper advertisement on display within train, good catering services which promote packed food, regularizing small vendors in train with some fixed charges, modernizing platforms with various types of entertainment facilities etc. which would attract money spending and add to the income of Railway. This money should be used for better facilities for passengers.
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Sreenadha Reddy Bezawada
Sreenadha Reddy Bezawada 11 years 8 months ago
Accidents at unmanned level crossings is always a human error. Unfortunately lot of innocent lives get lost in the same. Use of technology is a possible solution. Since railways have strong communication system installed for their own use, the same can be used for preventon of accidents. A alarm system can be installed which will go off 5 minutes before the actual arival of the train at that location, this is very much possible to be automated. Technology is availalbe for the same.
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madhusudan nimkar
madhusudan nimkar 11 years 8 months ago
There is one program "Beating the Retreat" which is shown on Door darshan.But there is no p[roper publicity to the program.I request you to give wide publicity to this program immediately, because it is to be arranged on 29th of January. Please rush for publicity.
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