Jaywalking causes one more death on rail tracks
A man with headphones pressed in his ears died as a train ran over him at a rail gate in the capital's Khilgaon yesterday.
The dead is Mizanur Rahman, 35, a businessman, Officer-in-Charge of Kamlapur Railway Police Station Yeasin Farroque told The Daily Star.
“The man was walking on the tracks with headphones in his ears. As a train approached him from behind, locals started to shout out to warn him. Sadly, he could not hear and the train ran over him,” said the OC.
The Daily Star has gathered its news reports on train accidents from 2008 to July 2015 and found out that over 50 percent of the deaths were caused because of careless jaywalkers.
It has also been observed that many of these people who walk on rail tracks often do so while talking on mobile phones or using headphones. This makes it difficult for them to hear the alarms.
A hundred railway-related deaths on average are reported every year, and half of these victims are jaywalkers.
In another study on road accidents in Dhaka carried out by The Daily Star, it was seen that 40 percent of the victims were jaywalkers.
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