Lives during risk: Unmanned railway crossings a deadly threat
People cranky unmanned railway crossings in Sargodha and Gujranwala. PHOTOS: ONLINE
SARGODHA: Unmanned railway crossings opposite Punjab have claimed lives of several trusting adults during a final several years. However, a supervision has nonetheless to take petrify measures to residence a matter.
Statistics exhibit that during a final 5 years, some-more than 100 people – including propagandize children, women and group – have mislaid their lives and 160 postulated injuries in around 800 accidents during manned and unmanned turn crossings all over a country.
The irony is that notwithstanding occurrence of deadly sight accidents, a supervision has unsuccessful to digest a extensive devise or come adult with an effective devise to opposite a problem.
In a comfortless occurrence on Jan 23, 2017, during slightest 6 members of a family were dejected to genocide when sight strike their automobile during an unmanned railway channel nearby Gojra. The car temperament registration series LSJ-6464 carrying 6 people was going opposite an unmanned channel nearby Chak No 93 when Lahore-bound Shalimar Express strike it.
The defunct of a same family, including a lady and a child, were on their approach from Sillanwali, Sargodha to see some kin in a village. Later, hundreds of villagers staged a criticism proof on a lane for dual hours perfectionist designation of a manned embankment on a crossing.
There is a prolonged list of such incidents that happened in a past and continue to start from time to time though a government’s slight and check has done a conditions even worse.
Published in The Express Tribune, Jan 30th, 2017.
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