Insignificantly tossed into ‘Others’ statistic, deaths due to suffocation, heart attacks and seizures triggered due to a fatal drop of oxygen levels in the body account for five percent of all deaths in local trains.

Sure, it’s a small percentage compared to the 35 percent share of deaths due to falling, but there’s something urgent, and rather preventable, about imagining those 410 people last year who were left gasping for air with no space to even move their hand to loosen their clothing, with no help while ironically being surrounded by thrice as many people.