High-speed prepare derails in China, driver killed

A high-speed bullet prepare derailed in China’s Guizhou province on Saturday, killing the driving force.

Rescue employees on the web site of the incident (Photo from @globaltimesnews on Twitter)

A high-speed bullet prepare derailed in China’s Guizhou province on Saturday, killing the driving force and wounding not less than seven passengers. Two coaches of the prepare derailed as a consequence of a mudslide at Rongjiang station.

The bullet prepare D2809 was operating from China’s South Western Guiyang province to the Southern province of Guangzhou when the 2 carriages derailed at a tunnel entrance of Rongjiang station in Guizhou, the state-run China Daily reported.

Two coaches of D2809, a bullet prepare from Guiyang, SW. China’s #Guizhou, to #Guangzhou, S. China, derailed at a station in Guizhou as a consequence of a mudslide at 10:30 am on Sat. The driver of the prepare died. 1 automobile attendant and seven passengers sustained non-life threatening accidents. pic.twitter.com/jIVfSpLIaa

— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) June 4, 2022

According to a report by the Global Times, all injured folks had been despatched to the native hospital, and the opposite 136 passengers have been transferred and excavated.

The China railway, after analysing on-board knowledge, reported that the driving force noticed an irregular rail monitor when the bullet prepare ran by Yuezhai tunnel, and shortly instituted emergency braking measures in 5 seconds that solely made the prepare slide over 900 meters.

Rongjiang station is situated in Guizhou’s Rongjiang county and is a third-class station managed by the Chengdu Bureau of China Railway. Construction of the station started in December 2013 and was put into trial operation in August 2014. The station formally started service on December 26, 2014, the report mentioned.

(With inputs from PTI)