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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)
Submission Closed

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.

Showing 1918 Submission(s)
ajaychaurasiya28
ajaychaurasiya28 10 years 7 months ago

Set up of detecting machniery of a Human Being And Animals and loud alarming device by detecting them.These set up should be set at a most pron this type of accident zone by analysing these types of place,,,

amitabh.gupta
amitabh.gupta 10 years 7 months ago

Unmanned Crossing should be equipped with these automatic facilities-
1) Green, Yellow and Red Light Signal
2) Automatic one directional Spike gate for tyre killer, as spike will be fitted with spring action with spike pointing outside, will allow vehicle inside to cross but will not allow to entre new vehicle
- Automatic Gate

FUCTION-

When Train is 3 minutes to reach Green Light will turn Yellow,
after 30 second Spike Gate will be Activated & Red light
after 90 sec Automatic Gate will Close

satishchandrabharadwaj51
satishchandrabharadwaj51 10 years 7 months ago

Continuation of comments here of 01st instant. In JALANDHAR, even at the Manned Railway Level Crossing, majority of people are tempted to cross the Crossing while the 'Phatak' is closed, indicative of a coming train. This way such people, remaining quite obvilious of the danger to their own life as well as to the life of their accompanying
near and dear ones, commt an act unworthy of a responsible citizen. SUCH AN ACT CAN'T BE HELD NECESSARY WHATSOEVER REASONS MAY BE ADVANCED BY SO DOERS.

iamrajeevkumarsingh
iamrajeevkumarsingh 10 years 7 months ago

Dear All,
As a matter of innovation and better services in Indian Railway,we have to focus on some important points.First of all
a) Regular cleaning at Station where hault timing approx 10
minutes.
b) Display board inside the coach which display the destination with announcement.
c)Entry of unwanted person just nameshake for cleaning should be banned,and also these person should engaged with ckeaning if railway station on contractual basis.
d) Additional coaches in the NDLS-HWH Route to reduce

mahesh2706
mahesh2706 10 years 7 months ago

Flyovers are very essential at every Level Crossing.

madhur.m.shukla
madhur.m.shukla 10 years 7 months ago

Mechanization of various task like laying new rails and gitti or checking tracks should be done and technology should be imported from UK or other if its not here.It will lower project cost.We should evaluate British period hierarchy at lower level.They should be trained for higher technology.
For long route trains a straight/short path should be adopted instead of covering adjacent main cities.Long distance trains are not meant to make local/political leader happy.Passengers contribute not neta

madhur.m.shukla
madhur.m.shukla 10 years 7 months ago

Platform should be closed all time.Passengers,who have ticket of that train only, should be allowed to arrive on platform 15 min before the train arrives.Luggage and posts should be booked on station next to main station and train should take their all supplies like water etc from there.This would decrease the non passenger mob on the main station which have pressure of passengers.We should have long distance train with minimum stoppage. An unchangeable policy should be made on it.

madhur.m.shukla
madhur.m.shukla 10 years 7 months ago

First we should know what should be the purpose of Railways. I think it should be connect India and facilitate long journeys in low prices. Then what is need of passenger trains running empty most of the times. We must cut/replace unnecessary slow passenger trains for small distances with fast trains for keeping tracks empty.
We should allow only those passengers on platform who have valid tickets and whose train is to arrive. Platform is not meant for waiting for long. It creates uncleanliness

raghuraaa
raghuraaa 10 years 7 months ago

There needs to be more governance and security in the unmanned level crossing this should be treated as priority and there should be no unmanned level crossing in the next few years. I am sure the current government is capable of achieving this in a very short time.

sunilraj1968
sunilraj1968 10 years 7 months ago

1. invite more private investment in level crossings. 2. railways must co-operate with local bodies for employing security at unmanned level crossing. 3. remote controlled signalling mechanism at the unmanned level crossings. 4. creating awareness among the public on safe crossing

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