Another train crash in china 280 people injured

[Veeru]

Another train crash in china 280 people injured


More than 280 people were injured in the Chinese city of Shanghai on Tuesday after a subway train crashed into the rear end of a stationary train due to a signal failure, according to Chinese media reports.

The state-run Xinhua news agency quoted the Shanghai Shentong Metro Group as saying in a statement that the accident happened on Line 10 of the newly expanded subway system in China's commercial capital.

There were no immediate reports of any fatalities in the collision, which happened at about 14:50 local time near Yu Yuan station in central Shanghai. The metro company said most of the injuries caused by the accident were minor, but added that at least 20 of the injured were in critical condition.

The train collision in Shanghai comes after 40 people were killed and more than 190 others injured on July 23 when bullet train D301 Fuzhou from Beijing rammed the rear end of D3115, which had been stalled after being struck by lightning. The mishap occurred near Wenzhou in eastern Zhejiang province.

The accident occurred nearly four years after China launched its first high-speed train. The trains involved in the collision were first generation bullet trains capable of clocking an average speed of around 150 kilometers per hour.

It was found that the accident occurred after the signaling system "failed to turn the green light into red" as it was struck by lightning at the Wenzhou South Railway station.

In August, China temporarily suspended all new high-speed rail projects in wake of safety concerns triggered by the deadly July train crash. The Chinese government at that time said it would "thoroughly study" the safety aspects of all high-speed railway projects awaiting approval and carry out stringent safety checks on all existing railway lines.

China, the world's second largest economy, has pumped billions of dollars into its high-speed rail network to cater to the ever growing numbers of commuters. Even as the Communist nation takes considerable pride in its engineering excellence, technical snags and power failures have led to concerns regarding rail safety.

China, which currently has about 8,350 kilometers of high-speed rail network, was earlier planning to extend the network to about 13,000 kilometers by 2012 and to 16,000 by 2020. It now remains to be seen whether those targets will be reduced because of the recent accidents.

Scores Injured In China Train Collision

New China train crash sparks warning | The Australian

 

[Veeru]

China’s bubbling post-crash anger is getting harder to ignore

The public anger stirred mere minutes after it became evident that something had gone badly wrong on Line 10 of the Shanghai metro.

“Does anyone take ordinary people’s lives as important?” wrote an anonymous commentator as the first video from the subway crash that left some 271 people hurt was streaming live online.

The collision of the two subway cars was swiftly blamed on a signaling error, and authorities promised to investigate.

What made many Chinese “netizens” (as Internet users here are known) angry was that they’d heard this story before. It was just two months ago that 40 people were killed when a signalling error caused two high-speed trains to collide near the city of Wenzhou, in eastern Zhejiang province. An investigation into what went wrong was due earlier this month but has been delayed without explanation.

Five days after the Wenzhou disaster, an accident was narrowly avoided on the very same Line 10 of the Shanghai metro when yet another signalling error sent a train hurtling the wrong way down the tracks.

Two major train accidents – and another near miss – in eight weeks, causing millions of people to worry if it’s safe to ride the rails? In a country where the government trumpets high-speed rail as proof of the country’s development and, less overtly, of the Communist Party’s right to govern?

Netizens certainly thought there was something to discuss, rushing to post some two million comments in the first five hours on the Sino Weibo microblogging website alone. “The (near miss in July) shows that Shanghai Metro has already had a problem that needed to be managed. Why wasn’t it resolved? Do people have to be injured or killed, before (authorities) admit a mistake and correct it?” a blogger using the name Siyizhi Tianshi wrote on Sina Weibo.

Take genuine public outrage, added to real questions about whether something systemic is wrong with China’s rail network – plus images that were available online of both bleeding crash survivors and rescue workers trying to reach them – and it’s the stuff front pages are made of. The string of crashes and malfunctions highlights one of the most pressing questions facing China: is the country sacrificing too much – public safety, social stability, the environment – in the name of economic development?

But here’s what did appear on the front pages of some of China’s main newspapers today (handily assembled by another Sina Weibo user):

Left-to-right they’re Liberation Army Daily, Economic Daily, the People’s Daily domestic edition, the People’s Daily overseas edition, the China Youth Daily and the Guangming Daily. Only one of the six – China Youth Daily – gives front-page coverage to the crash that everyone in the country is talking about today.

Instead, the headline news was the same as it was nearly every day. The doings of the Communist Party’s top leaders (President Hu Jintao met with the prime minister of North Korea; top Politburo member Wu Bangguo hosted the President of Kazakhstan), and the new utterings from the top that Party members are urged to study.

As with the Beijing’s air quality, the government is obviously worried that shining too much light on the country’s shortcomings might cause too many people to ask too many questions that they’d rather not answer.

After the Wenzhou crash, there was worried chatter in the capital about the fact the same faulty signalling equipment is apparently in use on Beijing’s own subway lines.

The response from the top? “No report, no comments on this matter. City Internet management office, please carry out your work with excellence on public opinion management and control online,” according to a leaked memo issued by the Propaganda Department, cynically referred to as the “Ministry of Truth.”

One imagines a similar directive was sent out to Party newspapers following Tuesday’s crash on the Shanghai metro. No report, no comments. Manage public opinion.

But as the outpouring on Sina Weibo shows, in 2011, it’s getting harder and harder to “manage” genuine and justified public anger. Even for China’s Ministry of Truth.

China’s bubbling post-crash anger is getting harder to ignore - The Globe and Mail

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China cuts Rail Construction 50% After Fatal High-Speed Crash

Sept. 15 (Bloomberg) -- China slashed spending on railway construction 50 percent last month as it slowed building work following the nation's deadliest high-speed train crash.

Spending in August plunged to 33 billion yuan ($5.2 billion) from 65.5 billion yuan a year earlier, based on Ministry of Railways data released today. The eight-month total declined 11 percent to 316.5 billion yuan, the ministry said.

China also cut spending 26 percent in July as it undertakes safety checks and investigates the cause of the July 23 crash near the eastern city of Wenzhou that killed 40 people. China Railway Group Ltd. and China Railway Construction Corp., the nation's two biggest railway builders, have plunged more than 40 percent since the accident.

China's rail network is set to reach 120,000 kilometers (75,000 miles) under a 2.8 trillion yuan, five-year investment plan running through 2015. That includes boosting the high-speed network, which opened in 2007, to 16,000 kilometers.

China Pares Rail Construction 50% After Fatal High-Speed Crash - BusinessWeek

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

Well, CCTV already made a news coverage for this, and everyone knows it already.

One particular subway driver had committed a misconduct, which caused this tragedy.

 

[Veeru]

Well, CCTV already made a cover news for this, and everyone knows it already.

One particular subway driver had committed a misconduct, which caused this tragedy.

But, reports says that it was due to snag in signal the same that happen in july killing 40 chinese people.

No matter what's the cause the worst thing is that so called "Ministry of Truth" is spending millions of dollars to control the news and public opinion about this accidents.

That's sad.

otherwise accidents do happens all over the world but no one controls the media or tries to control public anger by Ministry of Truth kind of propaganda machinery.

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This coming from a Negro who hails from a land that allows passengers to consistently walk on top of trains, sides and backs like this turd below that got electrocuted. Poor backwards India should be the last country in the world to talk about rail safety or the safety of any kind of transportation for
that matter. There are more incompetent blunders that kill more people in one year in Indian rail
than the entire history of Chinese locomotion while they ride on WW2 era junk left over from their
British masters.

Safety of Chinese rail from an India brownie? get real, the biggest joke I heard in along time . . . .

racist post reported.

 

[StingRoy]

I wish the Indian Railways accidents had a similar coverage on the fatalities it causes every year. We seem to have taken railway accidents for granted with no concrete steps to improve the safety of the passengers.

I hope China wakes up to scrutinize the deficiencies it has in its system and takes appropriate steps to prevent any such incidents in future. There have been many steps undertaken after the July HSR crash and I hope more stringent QC measures are adopted in railway safety. Thank god this incident didn't have any fatalities.

 

[Veeru]

As i have already said accidents do happens all over the world but no one controls the media or tries to control public anger by Ministry of Truth kind of propaganda machinery.

where chinese govt. run and party run newspaper suppress news and pay "50 cent army" to control and twist public opinion.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

But, reports says that it was due to snag in signal the same that happen in july killing 40 chinese people.

As i have already said accidents do happens all over the world but no one controls the media or tries to control public anger by Ministry of Truth kind of propaganda machinery.

where chinese govt. run and party run newspaper suppress news and pay "50 cent army" to control and twist public opinion.

Yeah, you care so much about dead Chinese people, that you recently opened a thread on those "disgusting dog eating Chinese".

You guys are so transparent.

 

[guest11]

Get well wishes to the injured. Chinese medical system is a better one. I hope the wounded people are being taken care off.

 

[harpoon]

Well to be fair Indian Transport Sector also takes the lives of the ticket paying passengers for granted. I heard the first railway minister of independent India resigned due to a train mishap that happened under his regime, but now accidents after accidents happen and nobody in the Govt gives a damn.

 

[crimemaster_gogo]

Look a brown smelly turd got fried but you know what? Nobody in the world gives a damn. This stuff happens every other day in your turd country but it is expected based on that habitual incompetent manners of your people, in China things like that don't occur becus we have enough sense not to allow people to walk on trains near live wires. It is just some basic common sense. A policy found everywhere around the world but is considered an anomaly in that basket case of a rail system of yours.

did your tail come under someone's feet ? why are you barking so loudly ? things can be discussed in a civil manner why show your level of upbringing here ? too much of canine soup eh ?

 

[Drawn_Sword_of_God]

AstroTrain seriously man get some education and stop it with that racist crap

 

[jdme]

Disgusting thread. Taking pleasure in someone's misery ...

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

But, reports says that it was due to snag in signal the same that happen in july killing 40 chinese people.

No matter what's the cause the worst thing is that so called "Ministry of Truth" is spending millions of dollars to control the news and public opinion about this accidents.

That's sad.

otherwise accidents do happens all over the world but no one controls the media or tries to control public anger by Ministry of Truth kind of propaganda machinery.

CCP doesn't want to play the blame game, instead they want to investigate, so the tragedy can be prevented in the next time.

 

[Rafi]

CCP doesn't want to play the blame game, instead they want to investigate, so the tragedy can be prevented in the next time.

Here, here.

 

[JustForFun]

So many injuries and not a single casualty?? no wonder china have full control over media.
2nd accident within few months tells about the cheap quality of chinese trains.
Its no wonder chinese people on blogs are venting their anger and saying that CPC no longer cares for people but just for its pet projects.

Maybe you should stop drooling and start reading.
The report says it was a accident with a METRO train, not a HIGH SPEED train.
That explains the high number of wounded (crowded metro lots of people standing) and the lack of fatal casualties.

More on topic:
Glad nobody was killed!