The drivers of a deadly train crash in October were watching cricket on a phone, an Indian minister says.

The drivers of a deadly train crash in October were watching cricket on a phone, an Indian minister says.

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  • JoBo@feddit.uk
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    9 months ago

    Many countries have very large and extensively used railway systems that don’t experience deadly crashes on the daily.

    India has ~one sixth of the global population; the railway system is enormous and systemically important (in a way that it isn’t somewhere like the US). I don’t know that you’re wrong but you can’t just cite the number of crashes without adjusting for the number of train-miles.