Ethical Issues in Train Disasters

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ETHICAL ISSUES IN TRAIN DISASTERS
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1ETHICAL ISSUES IN TRAIN DISASTERS
Executive summary
This document provides a critical analysis of both the case studies and a comparison has been
provided for understanding the situation of both the incidents. The transport medium of
railway is the most common method of transportation and the rate of death is also increasing
in the last decade. The considered case studies that have been analysed in this document are
the accidents of Waterfall train incident that took place in Australia and the incident of
Jnaneswari express that was derailed in the state of West Bengal. The code of conduct that
were placed for monitoring the safe journey of the passengers were breached and several
lives were lost in both the incidents and numerous passengers were injured due to the
accidents.

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Table of Contents
Introduction....................................................................................................................3
Discussion......................................................................................................................4
Waterfall rail incident................................................................................................4
Incident...................................................................................................................4
Reasons of the accident..........................................................................................5
Systemic causes and neglected technical problems...............................................5
Implementation of changes....................................................................................7
Jnaneswari Express train derailment..........................................................................8
Incident...................................................................................................................8
Derailment..............................................................................................................9
Rescue operation....................................................................................................9
Investigation.........................................................................................................10
Responsibility.......................................................................................................11
Reaction................................................................................................................11
Blame-game of the political parties.....................................................................12
Deployed changes....................................................................................................12
Comparison of the case studies................................................................................13
Conclusion....................................................................................................................13

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