India, Jan. 29 -- Despite the railways spending a bulk of the Rs.551-crore allocation to prevent people from trespassing railway tracks, 48% or 2,428 of the 5,058 deaths on railway tracks in the city over the past two years were owing to commuters crossing tracks. The remaining deaths occurred due to falling off moving trains, suicide, falling into the gap of platform and train, hitting poles and electrocution.

According to the latest data from the railways, out of 2,468 deaths on tracks in 2024, 1,151 died while crossing the tracks. The highest number of deaths on the Central Railway network were recorded at Kalyan, where 102 out of the 333 fatalities were due to crossing tracks; on the Western Railway network, Vasai recorded the highes...