Yesterday, a driverless metro train being tested on soon to be open Magenta line crashed through a wall at the Kalindi Kunj station. The crash which took place around 3.40 pm reportedly happened because the train’s brakes were disengaged. No one was injured in the crash. The Delhi Metro blamed the crash on “human error and negligence” and a high-level inquiry will be conducted soon. Mangu Singh, Delhi Metro’s Managing Director, told that operations on the metro of the magenta line were “absolutely safe”, with a high level of mechanization.
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“Today’s incident was a manual error during maintenance and has nothing to do with the trials or passenger safety during future operations,” said Mr Singh. And soon Twitter was abuzz with several memes on the same. Yes, the pictures and videos of the train went viral on the micro-blogging site and they turned it into memes. Check out some funny tweets:
Hahaha!
muze delhi pasand nahi he ! me to chali delhi se bahar pic.twitter.com/SLzH8FIWNf — Om (@ohokohokok) December 19, 2017
LOL
Wall construction went wrong
#DelhiMetro should have used Ambuja Cement for constructing the wall, deewaar ka tootna naamumkin hota — Italian Bahu (@ItalianBahu) December 19, 2017
Breaking boundaries literally
Bollywood song for the crash
Tere liye hi toh signal tod taad ke
Aaya Dilli wali girlfriend chhod chhad ke😂😂https://t.co/I1hHt5YuLL — Abdul Mustafa (@abdulmustafa01) December 19, 2017
Spiderman saved it?
Test Game?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will soon inaugurate the Kalkaji mandir-Botanical garden stretch of the Magenta line. The metro will run between Delhi and Noida. “A trial train was moved from the workshop without testing the brake system as a result of which, while the train was moving up the ramp for washing, it rolled back and hit the adjacent boundary wall,” the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation said in a statement.
The brakes should have been tested by the maintenance staff before the train left the shed. “It appears this was not done…the person who took charge of the train did not check the brake…Without the brakes, the train rolled back when it was being taken on a washing ramp,” the statement said. What are your views? Let us know in the comments below.