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Apr 29, 2009: Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav said a probe would be conducted into the collision of a passenger train and a goods train that killed four people and injured 11 others in Chennai on Wednesday.  

The accident took place at Vyasarpadi railway station after an unknown person drove the empty passenger train which collided with the goods train.

The passenger train was scheduled to depart from Chennai station at 0515 hrs but started its journey at 0450 hrs and skipped three halts on its way.  

Meanwhile, a special team was sent from Bangalore to probe the mishap and efforts were on to restore rail traffic.

Background

On April 29, four people were killed and 11 others injured when an unidentified person drove an EMU out of Chennai railway station, which later collided with a goods train at Vysarpadi.

In July 2008, 32 passengers, including a pregnant woman were charred to death when fire broke out in the Kakinada-bound Gautami Express in Warangal district of Andhra Pradesh.

  Comments (1)

  Title: safty measure

Posted by: nisha

Date: Apr 29th, 2009

Comment: its unbelievable..........what safety measure for this has
to be taken by railways avoid this in feature.... how can a
person start train with out proper keys and controlling
tools... if train moving in wrong direction the
automatically supply line disconnecting eqqupment can be
provided know......

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