Nearly 50 died on railway tracks Between Alappuzha and Thrissur this year

Nearly 50 radical mislaid their lives connected railway tracks crossing 3 districts successful cardinal Kerala successful the archetypal 4 months of the year, according to authoritative figures highlighting gaps successful information measures and awareness.

As per the data, 48 radical were killed connected the agelong betwixt Cherthala presumption successful Alappuzha and Vallathol Nagar successful Thrissur till April 28. The fatalities see some accidents and termination cases, authoritative sources said. A full of 242 deaths were reported from the aforesaid agelong successful 2025.

Of the 48 deaths this year, 20 took spot connected tracks betwixt Kalamassery and Irinjalakuda, portion 17 occurred connected lines connecting Irinjalakuda with Vallathol Nagar. Only 2 deaths happened connected the agelong from Cherthala to Ernakulam Junction (South) and 9 betwixt Ernakulam South and Kalamassery.

The information shows that tracks betwixt Kalamassery and Vallathol Nagar proceed to relationship for higher fig of fatalities, with the agelong witnessing 182 deaths past year.

Sources with railway enforcement agencies cited a ample fig of amerciable pedestrian crossing points and a deficiency of information consciousness arsenic reasons for the higher fig of deaths reported from the agelong covering mostly agrarian areas. Stretches crossing paddy fields extremity up being sidesplitting fields, with pedestrians uncovering nary abstraction to measurement retired of the tracks adjacent if they announcement a bid moving towards them, the sources said.

The repeated fatal accidents person prompted some the Railway Protection Force (RPF) and the Government Railway Police to heighten information measures and consciousness drives. Efforts, sources said, were connected to bring down the fig of fatalities by barricading amerciable introduction points. The introduction points beneath some sides of the Ernakulam North overbridge and 1 nether the South span person already been closed, portion the RPF has identified respective different susceptible locations successful the district.

“The astir important precaution is to debar walking implicit the tracks. Efforts are connected to barricade amerciable pedestrian introduction points, too conducting predominant consciousness drives. At immoderate points, we person adjacent conducted demonstrations utilizing life-size dummies to sensitise radical astir the risks successful crossing oregon walking implicit the tracks. Awareness programmes are besides conducted for section residents and schoolchildren successful susceptible areas by involving elected representatives,” Binoy Antony, Inspector, RPF, Ernakulam South, said.