A CASE STUDY ON THE INVESTIGATION OF RECENTLY OCCURRED RAILWAY ACCIDENTS AT CUMILLA AND CHITTAGONG

Abstract

Recently, some railway accidents occurred in our country. So, two railway accidents selected for investigate and analysis the reason of accident, at Comilla and Chittagong. The selected topic is “A CASE STUDY ON THE INVESTIGATION OF RECENTLY OCCURRED RAILWAY ACCIDENTS AT CUMILLA AND CHITTAGONG”. From (Barotakia, Chittagong) and (Nangalkot, Cumilla) the data are collected, by physically attend on the spot. Data collection and analysis were two types. 1) Photographic Survey 2) Questionnaire survey. In photographic Survey there some photos collected by our own camera, and some photos collected from newspaper. In questionnaire Survey data collected from some specific type of people like drivers, pedestrian, hawkers and road users by interview. Analyzed this collected data by pie chat. By these pie chart got the reason of accidents. Next, this analyzed data compared with the newspapers data. At the accident of Chittagong, occurred at railway and roadway crossing, eleven people died in this accident. On the other hand, at the accident of Cumilla no passenger and pedestrian were killed and approximately fifty people injured. The accident was rear end collision. These accidents occurred for the absence of gateman and signaling timing mistake. So, the main reason in this accident signaling fault. To get rid of this type of problem, government have to provide automatic signaling device.