Sad news here in Thailand. Sadly this shows a lack of general safety standards in all walks of life here in Thailand 
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BANGKOK: -- A 55-year-old woman was killed this morning after detached train carriages crashed into unaware passing vehicles at the railway crossing at Bangson railway station.
A brand new Honda sedan was also hit by the carriages but the driver narrowly escaped death.
The victim was identified only as Saree.
The accident happened at about 6.30 am on the railway tracks near Bang Son station in Bang Sue area.
As a cargo train passed the railway crossing, the controller then raised the barricade to allow all vehicles to pass.
But the controller didn’t notice that only the locomotive passed the crossing while its carriages with timber cargo were accidentally detached and were moving onwards.
A few cars have passed the crossing when the barricade was raised, while the victim was still riding on the tracks with her motorcycle when the detached carriages arrived.
She was run over and dragged about 200 metres before the carriages could stop after running out of force.
Another driver of the damaged Honda car said she narrowly escaped death as she was about to cross after the barricade was raised when the locomotive had gone.
But immediately she saw the carriages were following behind with no locomotive and hit the motorcycle in front of her.
Her car was also brushed aside by the carriages, she said.
State Railway of Thailand governor Wuthichat Kalyanamitr said it was the first accident of its kind that engage carriages detached from locomotive.
But he said the SRT would bear full responsibility for the accident and would look into whether it was human error or technical error that caused the detachment.
Source: http://englishnews.t...ached-carriages
Dave
.BANGKOK: -- A 55-year-old woman was killed this morning after detached train carriages crashed into unaware passing vehicles at the railway crossing at Bangson railway station.
A brand new Honda sedan was also hit by the carriages but the driver narrowly escaped death.
The victim was identified only as Saree.
The accident happened at about 6.30 am on the railway tracks near Bang Son station in Bang Sue area.
As a cargo train passed the railway crossing, the controller then raised the barricade to allow all vehicles to pass.
But the controller didn’t notice that only the locomotive passed the crossing while its carriages with timber cargo were accidentally detached and were moving onwards.
A few cars have passed the crossing when the barricade was raised, while the victim was still riding on the tracks with her motorcycle when the detached carriages arrived.
She was run over and dragged about 200 metres before the carriages could stop after running out of force.
Another driver of the damaged Honda car said she narrowly escaped death as she was about to cross after the barricade was raised when the locomotive had gone.
But immediately she saw the carriages were following behind with no locomotive and hit the motorcycle in front of her.
Her car was also brushed aside by the carriages, she said.
State Railway of Thailand governor Wuthichat Kalyanamitr said it was the first accident of its kind that engage carriages detached from locomotive.
But he said the SRT would bear full responsibility for the accident and would look into whether it was human error or technical error that caused the detachment.
Source: http://englishnews.t...ached-carriages
Dave