The day senior officials of the government railway police presented statistics about crime and deaths in the past five years to the press, also happened to be the day with the maximum number of accidental deaths in 2011.
By an unholy coincidence, the day senior officials of the government railway police (GRP) presented statistics about crime and deaths in the past five years to the press, also happened to be the day that recorded the maximum number of accidental deaths in 2011.
The statistics have now proved that railway stations have become the most ruthless spaces where accidents and accidental deaths have become commonplace.
According to sources in the GRP, there were 19 accidental deaths in the railway premises on Friday, especially at the platforms across the Mumbai Metropolitan region on Friday. This number is considerably higher than the daily average of 12 deaths.
The records showed that out of the 19 dead bodies, 12 found claimants while 7 others remained waiting. There were also 13 injured.
DNA could not verify how many of these 13 were seriously injured. But, if any of them were, the number is likely to shoot up. This is what Mumbai’s increasingly dangerous and most widely used, perhaps overused, suburban local railway records show.
One more interesting fact was that few or no deaths were recorded in the seemingly most dangerous stations, while others recorded more frequent accidental deaths. There was one death at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Dadar, Dombivli, Bandra, Andheri, and Borivli while two deaths at Thane, Panvel and Palghar. Kalyan had records of three deaths. Kurla, which had the worst record of deaths in 2010, does not even appear in the list and Borivli, which follows Kurla, has seen just one death.
On January 5 and 17, there were 14 deaths, recorded as the highest number. But, Friday breached that record. GRP police commissioner, Tukaram Chavan, has expressed concern and sorrow over these deaths.
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