LookAtVietnam – The Viet Nam Railway Corporation will install convex spherical mirrors and traffic signal lights at railway intersections without guards in an experiment . . .

The railway intersection on Giai Phong Street has no safety signals. About 400 railway accidents have happened nationwide so far this year.

The Ministry of Transport has requested the corporation to research and install these signals on a trial scale at intersections across the nation in order to draw people’s attention to passing trains.

The research and trial must be completed by December 31, Hoang said.

The corporation will have to co-operate with relevant offices to supplement speed-reducing bumps and instruction panels at these intersections. It will also have to use solar-powered signal lights at intersections where there is no electricity.

However, installation of this equipment at all guard-free intersections across the country would be costly and time-consuming, Hoang said.

Over the past 11 months, there have been 391 railway accidents, killing 178 people and injuring 259 others. Compared to last year, the number of deaths increased by four and the number of injuries increased by 14.

About 90 per cent of rail accidents occur at intersections where there is no safety fence, according to Tran Son, deputy head of the Traffic Accidents Investigation and Instruction Unit of the Road and Railway Traffic Police Department.

Railway inspection authorities said many illegal crossings didn’t have signs and hindered the vision of drivers and pedestrians.

VietNamNet/Viet Nam News