Odisha Train Accident: Both Coromandel Express pilots were whining in pain due to incorrect reports and averted deaths

 Odisha Train Accident: Both Coromandel Express pilots were whining in pain due to incorrect reports and averted deaths

The Coromandel Express train collapsed immediately before Bahanga Bazar station on the main route of Balasore, according to the preliminary inquiry into the rail tragedy in Balasore, Odisha. On June 2, a tragic train crash in Odisha's Balasore district nearly claimed the life of Hazari Behera, a 36-year-old assistant loco pilot who was operating the Coromandel Express. Behera is now being treated at the Bhubaneswar AMRI Hospital

Last Friday evening about seven o'clock, the Shalimar-Chennai Central Coromandel Express and Bengaluru-Howrah Express train overturned and collided with a goods train, resulting in 275 fatalities and 1100 injuries.

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The pilot's family objected to the local media fabricating the pilot's reported demise after the accident. "The media does not realise that such false news can take a heavy toll on the families of the injured," Behera's widow told The Hindu. particularly because my husband is still frail and can barely sit up straight. As a result of the collision, Behera has a shattered left leg and other bruises. Even though he is currently completely cognizant, his health is poor.

His coworker Gunanidhi Mohanty, a Coromandel Express loco pilot, is likewise in a stable condition and was discharged from the hospital's intensive care unit (ICU) on Monday. The families of both train drivers have made an appeal for privacy and asked that they be given time to physically and mentally recuperate. He asserted that because the train was being operated in accordance with railway regulations, neither train driver could be held accountable for the collision.

'The Hindu' was informed by a senior railway official that a loco pilot's duties include starting, stopping, and accelerating the train. "There is no doubt that the loco pilot would have seen that it was about to collide with a goods train, even at a high speed of 128 kmph and that too in the dark of night," he claimed. "Especially when he had to proceed on the main line." The all-clear was granted.

The Coromandel Express train that was involved in the accident in Odisha's Balasore district was "not travelling at the prescribed speed," according to a statement released by the Railways on Sunday, and it had received a "green signal" to enter the "loop line." Was. This Railways comment is interpreted.