India's Train Crashes: Tragedies and Governance Changes.
The derailment of two passenger trains in eastern India that killed at least 288 people and injured more than 800 was caused by an error in the electronic signalling system that sent them onto the wrong tracks, a railway official says. The passenger trains, carrying 2,296 people, were not speeding. The root cause of the crash was related to an error in the electronic signalling system. Despite government efforts to improve safety, hundreds of accidents occur every year on India’s railways, the fourth largest train network in the world.