A father in Bangladesh miraculously saved his one-year-old son by embracing him and pressing against a platform wall as 8 train carriages passed overhead.
The accident that left a grandfather and two grandchildren dead or injured in Dak Lak (formerly Phu Yen) serves as a typical example of disregarding dangerous train signals.
A farm vehicle carrying three people, crossing an illegal makeshift railway path in O Loan commune, was struck by a train on the afternoon of 12/4, killing one person and seriously injuring two.
Two university students in Hanoi died on the evening of 28/3 after their motorbike collided with a train while crossing a civilian railway intersection.
A tractor-trailer overturned, split in two, and the SE8 train locomotive was dented after a collision in Ve Giang commune on the evening of 6/3, injuring two drivers.