{"id":1944082,"date":"2023-06-04T21:01:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T01:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/india-train-that-derailed-was-given-wrong-signal-before-crash-officials\/"},"modified":"2023-06-04T21:03:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T01:03:12","slug":"india-train-that-derailed-was-given-wrong-signal-before-crash-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/india-train-that-derailed-was-given-wrong-signal-before-crash-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrong signal caused India train derailment: Officials."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Findia-train-that-derailed-was-given-wrong-signal-before-crash-officials%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1944082&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Tragedy Strikes: India Train Crash Leaves 288 Dead<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>\nOfficials in India revealed Sunday that one train involved in the Friday crash was given the wrong signal that lead to the impact.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The search for survivors in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/buttigieg-visits-ohio-town-weeks-after-devastating-train-crash-as-bipartisan-criticism-mounts\/\" title=\"Buttigieg Visits Ohio Town Weeks After Devastating Train Crash As Bipartisan Criticism Mounts\">devastating train crash<\/a> in Bahanaga has come to an end, with the death toll reaching a staggering 288. Over 800 people were injured in the crash and subsequent derailment on Friday, making it the worst such incident in over 20 years.<\/p>\n<h3>What Happened?<\/h3>\n<p>According to senior railway official Jaya Verma Sinha, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-election-employees-fired-for-allegedly-shredding-voter-applications-in-georgia\/\" title=\"Two Election Employees Fired For Allegedly Shredding Voter Applications In Georgia\">preliminary investigation found<\/a> that the high-speed Coromandel Express was initially given the correct signal to run on the main track line. However, the signal changed, and the train instead entered the adjacent loop line where it collided with a freight train loaded with iron ore.<\/p>\n<p>Officials are still unsure whether the signal change was due to a technical error or human mistake.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Coromandel Express, two South Eastern Railway passenger trains carrying a total of 2,300 passengers were also derailed in the crash.<\/p>\n<h3>Compensation for Victims<\/h3>\n<p>Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishna has promised that families of the deceased will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/death-toll-from-india-train-derailment-rises-to-over-280-people\/\" title=\"Over 280 people dead in India train derailment.\">receive 1 million rupees<\/a> (approximately $12,000), while those seriously injured will receive 200,000 rupees and those with minor injuries will receive 50,000 rupees.<\/p>\n<h3>India&#8217;s Busy Railways<\/h3>\n<p>Indian railways typically transport 13 million passengers every day, making it one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/india-train-that-derailed-was-given-wrong-signal-before-crash-officials\/\" title=\"Wrong signal caused India train derailment: Officials.\">busiest railway networks<\/a> in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts are with the victims and their families during this difficult time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click here to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials in India disclosed that the train crash on Friday was caused by a wrong signal given to one of the trains. The search for survivors ended on Saturday, with 288 fatalities and 803 injuries resulting from the crash and derailment in Bahanaga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1944083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[11357,18090,9231,3638,13538,9985,7058],"class_list":["post-1944082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-caused","tag-derailment","tag-india","tag-officials","tag-signal","tag-train","tag-wrong"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1944082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1944083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1944082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1944082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1944082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}