Vande Bharat Express has been involved in yet another incident after hitting a cow and finally killing a man resting on the tracks. As India Today reports, the chain of events began when a cow came on the tracks and in the path of the Delhi-Jaipur-Ajmer Vande Bharat Express train. After being hit by the train, the cow fell on a man standing on the side of the track, killing the train. As per reports, the incident took place under the jurisdiction of Aravali Vihar police station in Rajasthan’s Alwar district.
According to India Today report, the deceased has been identified as a retired electrician of Indian Railways named Shivdayal Sharma. That person had retired from the organization 23 years back. According to the relative of the retired railway employee, the incident took place after Vande Bharat Express left Kali Mori Gate at around 8.30 am and collided with a cow. Due to the high speed of the train, the cow fell 30 meters above Shivdayal. The weight of the impacting cow killed the man. After this the dead body was sent to the district hospital for postmortem. Another person was injured in the accident, but survived the accident.
This is not the first time that the Vande Bharat train has met with an accident involving cattle. Earlier, there have been several incidents where the train met with an accident, killing cattle and damaging the train.
Mumbai-Gandhinagar Vande Bharat Express has suffered the most in accidents involving cattle. The train on this route met with an accident within a few days of its launch. Furthermore, the situation worsened as the train met with 2 more accidents within days on the same route. The front end of the train as well as some important parts were damaged due to these incidents.
To avoid such incidents in future, Western Railway has started the initiative of fencing the railway tracks on this route. The Indian Railways branch had to cover a distance of 620 km between Mumbai and Ahmedabad to prevent the animals from coming in the way of the train.