WATCH: At least 275 people were killed on Friday in India’s deadliest train crash in more than two decades. Investigators are now probing an electronic track management system that they suspect malfunctioned.
At least 275 people were killed on Friday when a passenger train hit a stationary freight train, went off the tracks and hit another passenger train passing in the opposite direction in the eastern state of Odisha.
The computer-controlled track management system, called the “interlocking system”, directs a train to an empty track at the point where two tracks meet, Mr Sandeep Mathur, principal executive director for signalling, told reporters. “It is supposed to be tamper-proof, error-proof. It is called a fail-safe system, even if it fails the signal will turn red and the train will be stopped,” said Ms Jaya Varma Sinha, a member of the Railway Board that runs the giant state monopoly.
The interlocking system should not have allowed the Coromandel Express to take the loop track, Ms Sinha said.
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