BTS | Table 2-5: Highway-Rail Grade-Crossing Safety

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Table 2-5: Highway-Rail Grade-Crossing Safety

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	1970	1975	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	(R) 2006	2007
Fatalities	^a1,440	917	833	582	698	608	579	626	615	579	488	461	431	402	425	421	357	334	372	358	369	339
Injured persons	3,272	3,860	3,890	2,687	2,407	2,094	1,975	1,837	1,961	1,894	1,610	1,540	1,303	1,396	1,219	1,157	999	1,035	(R) 1,094	(R) 1,046	1,054	1003
Accidents	^a3,559	12,126	10,796	7,073	5,715	5,388	4,910	4,892	4,979	4,633	4,257	3,865	3,508	3,489	3,502	3,237	3,077	2,977	(R) 3,078	(R) 3,056	2,934	2,741

KEY: R = revised

^a1970 data are not comparable to later years due to a change in the reporting system.

NOTE

The Federal Railroad Administration recommended we no longer report property damage statistics, as we had done in previous editions of NTS, due to inconsistencies in the reporting of data.

SOURCES

1970: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, Office of Policy and Program Development, Rail-Highway Crossing Accident/Incident and Inventory Bulletin (Washington, DC: Annual issues), tables S and 11.

1970-2006: Ibid. Internet site http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/ as of Apr. 15, 2008.