PRELIMINARY ENQUIRY REPORT OF BAGH EXPRESS-JEEP COLLISION NEAR
BARAUNI STATION RELEASED
The preliminary inquiry report pertaining
to the collision of 3020 Dn. Bagh Express train with Mahindra
Jeep at Manned Level Crossing near Barauni Station Section of
Barauni-Samastipur Double Line BG section of Sonpur Division of
North Eastern Railway has been released. The accident took place
on 23.5.2002 at about 00.40 hrs.
Shri Bhupender Singh Commissioner
of Railway Safety, North Eastern Circle, Lucknow held a statutory
inquiry into the collision on 25th and 26th
May 2002.
According to the provisional
findings of the Commissioner, the accident occurred due to "failure
of railway staff".
As a result of this Railway accident,
5 persons died, two sustained grievous injuries and one simple
injury, all the fatalities were the occupant of the Mahindra Jeep.
No Train passengers were killed grievously injured or sustained
simple injury.
