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Safety Trends over IR

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Safety Trends over IR ​

There have been landmark achievements in safety standards due to innovative suggestions and active intervention which led to many system improvements on IR. With holistic vision, there have been many fold improvements in railway safety as brought below:

ACCIDENT TYPES Years
2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23 2023-24 2024-25
DERAILMENT 65 78 54 46 40 17 27 36 25 24
COLLISION 3 5 3 0 5 1 2 6 6 3
LEVEL CROSSING 35 20 13 6 1 1 1 1 0 1
FIRE 0 1 3 6 8 3 4 4 9 3
MISC 4 4 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0
TOTAL 107 108 73 59 55 22 35 48 40 31
Source: Fig as per Annual Report of the Commission of Railway Safety for the year 2023-24