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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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navneet goel 11 years 2 months ago

Put LED STRIPS on train engine to enhance its visibility specially at night

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Jaimit Gandhi 11 years 2 months ago

There should be traffic lights at every crossing and there should be law of penalty who breaks this traffic signal. Patrolling of such crossings must be included in duty of Indian Police and they should be given authority to immediately penalize (fine+suspension of driving licence for some time) of the people who break the signal. With successful implementation for few years; we can see substantial decrease of such accidents. Penalize will be of course better than seeing them hurt in accident.

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MOHAN CHAND JAIN 11 years 2 months ago

It is suggested Railway should remove the time table by using a simple formula any time any where by maintaining 4 line express as like buses for example Howrah to chennai 6 bogies as CH 1-CH 6 + to Hydrabad 6 bogies as HD 1- HD 6 + TO Bangalore 6 bogies as BNG 1- BNG 6 +Trivandram TR1-TR6=24 bogies a complete link express which can be connected any where as your possible trains. The Reservation may be only current and no refund. it will help to stop black marketing and platform neat & clean

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MOHAN CHAND JAIN 11 years 2 months ago

To know water position of the bogies of train there must be a water level glass fitted.so this will help the passenger to know the position and can order to fill in the nearest junction

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MOHAN CHAND JAIN 11 years 2 months ago

To know water position of the boogies of train there must be a water level glass fitted.so this will help the passenger to know the position and can order to fill in the nearest junction

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mathai kuriakose 11 years 2 months ago

unmanned level crossings . a shame for any civilised nation. the solution is however very simple. just put up traffic lights on the road side of the crossings to indicate whether it is safe to cross or not. which can be easily controlled from the nearest railway station. yet some people may ignore the warning and get killed. nothing serious. it happens in road traffic too. as exception not the rule

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P C S Reddy 11 years 2 months ago

Good idea of GPS. But you should have your navigation system. Till then take the village panchayats into confidence, deploy the people with proper value addition to warn the people about the movement trains at the unmanned level crossings. This can be adopted as an immediate measure and subsequently technological advancements can be implemented.

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Santosh Pandey 11 years 2 months ago

We are talking of digital India . Why not we install GPS based automatic barriers which works on Solar energy. Such Kind of development should be given as Project to all IIT's where work by students will not only help resolve our paining issues but also education becomes experience based.

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chandra nair 11 years 2 months ago

GPS & satelite control warning alaram fitt every Un named rail level crossing-- the train coming five KM distence--emitting the signals from train will switch on gate alaram to warn

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madhu s 11 years 2 months ago

Eliminate all unmanned crossings 1) build overpasses or underpasses as required in all such places. 2) build alternate paths or roads where possible to divert road traffic.

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