Careless walk on railway track
Thanks for your graphical picture on the subject (29 Oct.). It shows a hearing impaired (as reported) woman walking totally unaware on a railway track, with a passenger train approaching hardly fifty meters behind her, on the same track! The picture possibly confirms her hearing impairment, as she is totally unaware of the life threatening danger right behind her.
One wonders if she is also impaired in feelings in her foot, both of which were on adjacent railway sleepers. She should have felt the slight vibration of the sleepers, with the train so close behind her! Or was she, by any chance, contemplating to commit suicide, though her expression in the very clear photograph does not suggest it. Such accidents if and when they happen are totally uncalled for, and the locomotive driver cannot be blamed for it. It can only cause irritating delay and sufferings for the train passengers. Finally, there is the totally unnecessary expenditure of taxpayers' time and money needed to be spent for the mandatory enquiry that follows such incidents, where no one but the victim is to be blamed!
They couldn't care less. The woman is least bothered about the wrongs committed by her. The railway police can however take necessary legal action against her for hampering railway traffic, as provided by the laws.
They can easily identify the culprit by the clear photograph.
Further, the time and place of the incident can be made available to them if they want to go for punitive action!
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