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VISAKHAPATNAM: A little more than 5,780 people have lost their lives in train-related accidents in Andhra Pradesh in the past five years. However, a vast majority of the deaths related to passengers falling off running trains or people getting run over. Suicides on railway tracks also make a formidable number.
According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), 760 people died in 755 railway accidents in Andhra Pradesh in 2021. In 2020, 613 people were killed in 611 railway accidents, and 1,519 people were killed in 1,511 railway accidents in 2019. Similarly, 1,525 railway accidents resulted in the death of 1,531 people in 2018 while 1,362 railway accidents claimed 1,365 lives in 2017.
In most cases the deaths were due to negligence of passengers travelling in trains or people crossing the tracks negligently. The NCRB has classified railway accident deaths into five categories – derailment, collision, explosions/fires, people falling from trains or trains colliding with people on tracks and other cause
However, there were only a few major railway accidents in Andhra Pradesh in the past five years.
Andhra Pradesh reported a major train accident in January 2017. The derailment of (Jagdalpur-Jungarh Road-Bhubaneswar) Hirakhand express train claimed 41 lives near Kuneru village in Komarada mandal in Vizianagaram district in January 2017. A ‘sabotage’ theory was floated by some, but the forensic report ruled out traces of explosives.
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