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India: Driver Error Blamed in a Deadly Train Crash
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: July 20, 2010
A train that slammed into another in an eastern Indian station early Monday was traveling at 55 m.p.h., three times faster than it should have been, and ignored signals to stop, railway officials said Tuesday, suggesting that driver error was behind the crash that killed 63 people and wounded scores of others. The Uttarbanga Express hit the Bananchal Express, which was about to pull out of Sainthia station, about 125 miles north of Calcutta. The force of the crash was so intense that the roof of one car was thrust onto an overpass above the tracks. The driver was among those killed in what was the second major train crash in the state of West Bengal in two months.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/21/world/asia/21briefs-TRAIN.html
