India Triple Train Collision: Signal Failure Kills 296 Near Balasor
Three trains. One signal failure. 296 dead in minutes. The Coromandel Express was running at full speed near Bahanaga Baazar station in Odisha when it was routed onto the wrong track — straight into a parked freight train. The derailed coaches then spilled onto the adjacent line, where the Yesvantpur-Howrah Express plowed through them. Rescuers pulled survivors from wreckage for 72 hours straight. India's worst rail disaster in decades. And investigators traced it back to a fault in the electronic interlocking system. A software error. Not a storm. Not sabotage. A software error.
June 2, 2023
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