The species of cattle, in our neighbor india, is revered as a mythical beast and is well protected. On the streets of India, it is often seen that buffalo sacred cows and others walk leisurely on the road, and pedestrians and vehicles also try to avoid, a very harmonious picture. However, there are exceptions to everything, and once an Indian buffalo mistakenly entered the railway, which caused 7 train cars to overturn, causing a major train accident. The conservative estimate of the death toll is more than 800, what is going on?
A buffalo caused a train accident with heavy losses
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The story takes place on June 6, 1981, as usual, a train runs from New Delhi to Kolkata. If there had been no subsequent accidents, the train would not have left any traces in the history of world trains. But the accident happened driven by a series of objective and subjective factors.
Indian cattle can be unimpeded on the streets
The train was traveling at high speed, and as it passed the Bagmati River Bridge, the driver was surprised to find a buffalo parked in the middle of the tracks, looking around from time to time. Apparently, the buffalo did not notice the approaching train, and certainly had no intention of leaving. A young driver, not knowing what to do, an experience he had never encountered in his career. He did not know how to choose between the divine beast and the brake, if he did not brake, then the train and him were safe, then the sacred cow would inevitably die. If you brake, the train will put the train in great danger. What choices will drivers make?
Buffalo mistakenly entered the railway
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The young driver, in the end, in a panic, chose a seemingly normal but very fatal operation - emergency braking. Why is this operation a normal operation? This is because it is a perfectly normal reaction for the driver to encounter an obstacle and brake emergency, and no driver will see the obstacle and not brake.
The train braked urgently on the bridge, which was really dangerous
But the fatality of this braking action lies in the fact that the driver ignores the huge risk of emergency braking of the high-speed train, and it is also a huge accident that is prone to rollover on the bridge. Finally, the high-speed train in India had the most tragic accident, with seven carriages falling under the bridge. So, in this case, can we not brake?
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We know that high-speed trains, unless they encounter railway damage, large obstacles can not pass, bridges break, culvert blockage and other extremely special situations, the train can not be easily emergency braked. This is because the high-speed train, if the front of the locomotive suddenly brakes urgently, and the rear carriage in the huge inertia, can not stop immediately, it is very easy to cause the vehicle to derail, overturn, railway damage and so on.
The train can only brake urgently in the event of extreme circumstances
The Indian train, due to the driver's wrong emergency braking, finally led to the overturning of the vehicle. But the most deadly thing is not the overturning itself, but the overturning on the bridge, which eventually causes the car body to fall into the river. So why did the driver brake at that time?
India's sacred cow culture affects the driver's first-time judgment
Xiaomu believes that in addition to the first reaction of the driver at that time, perhaps India's deep-rooted "cow-oriented" culture played a considerable role. The driver may have felt pity for the buffalo at some point, and this moment was fatal to a passenger. In the end, at least 800 people were killed, so why did it cause such a huge number of casualties?
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In fact, June 6, 1981 coincided with China's Dragon Boat Festival, and it was also a weekend in India. As a result, the train at that time was full of people returning home, and it was reported that even the roof of the train at that time was full of people, and the number of people who hung the train was even more numerous. Therefore, when the train overturned, these people sitting on the roof and hanging on the car became the first wave of people to suffer. Therefore, the number of deaths is conservatively estimated to be at least 800, while there are media reports that the death toll exceeds 2,000. So why does India have so many tickets?
There are many people hanging on Indian trains
In the 1970s and 1980s, India's industry was very backward, and trains were very few. However, the huge population has a large number of travel needs. So, there are a lot of people hanging on the train, is it really because there are too many tickets? In fact, no, india actually does not officially sell hanging tickets. India's railway stations simply do not have ticket gates like those in China, not even commanders. Passengers can go directly to the platform to find their own train, and if it is the starting station, they can also get on the train in advance and wait.
And India's train tickets are also very cheap, so, since no one checks the ticket, the price is also cheap, many people choose not to buy a ticket, even if they are found on the train, they can make up a ticket. As a result, there are so many people on the train, except for those who buy tickets and have seats, many people can only stand. What if I can't stand? They thought of a way, that is, hanging on the car, the body outside, you can greatly save space, and hanging outside, or crowded in the carriage vision and air is much better, so it is not difficult to understand why so many people are willing to hang on the car. At the same time, Indian trains are very slow, and there is not much danger in hanging on the carriages. But if you encounter a situation where the train overturns and overturns, it is another matter.
Therefore, the accident in India is not because there are too many tickets, but because there are too many people hanging!
India's open-and-hung train ride is really shocking
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In fact, to sum up, the accident in India was caused by many objective and subjective factors. First, the direct fuse must be that the buffalo mistakenly entered the tracks, bringing great instability to the driver's driving; second, the driver's wrong operation was the most important factor leading to the accident, think about it, a train traveling on the bridge, if it does not encounter extreme situations such as road collapse, it cannot brake urgently.
At the same time, the train overload is serious, India's trains in the eighties of the last century, there are many people hanging, if it is safe to drive is no problem. But once it overturns, it will suffer heavy losses, which is why it causes huge casualties. Fourth, the management of chaos is also a reason, for the maintenance and daily management of the train railway is not in place, just imagine, if the Indian railway department strictly manages, there will be no buffalo into the railway situation, there will be no above things happening.