BTS | Table 2-31: Transit Safety and Property Damage Data

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Table 2-31: Transit Safety and Property Damage Data

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	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
Fatalities^a	339	300	273	281	320	274	264	275	286	299
Injuries^a	54,556	52,125	55,089	52,668	58,193	57,196	55,288	56,132	55,990	55,325
Accidents^b	58,002	46,467	36,380	30,559	29,972	25,683	25,166	24,924	23,937	^R23,310
Incidents^a,b (includes accidents)	90,163	83,139	73,831	64,986	70,693	62,471	59,392	61,561	60,094	58,703
Vehicle-miles (millions)	2,490	2,478	2,510	2,535	2,581	2,620	2,605	2,702	2,833	2,927
Rates per 100 million vehicle-miles^c
Fatalities (all reportable incidents)	13.6	12.1	10.9	11.1	12.4	10.5	10.1	10.2	10.1	10.2
Injuries (all reportable incidents)	2,191	2,103	2,195	2,077	2,254	2,183	2,122	2,078	1,976	1,890
Accidents	2,329	1,875	1,450	1,205	1,161	980	966	922	845	^R796
Property damage^d (current $ millions)	38.0	37.5	37.5	44.9	38.4	46.3	57.6	55.5	61.5	55.3

KEY: R = revised.

^a Totals do not include data for cable car, inclined plane, jitney, and ferry boat. These data appear in the footnotes for table 2-33.

^b Accidents include collisions with other vehicles, objects, and people (except suicides), and derailments/buses going off the road. Incidents include accidents plus personal casualties (inside vehicles, inside stations, and boarding and alighting vehicle) and fires.

^c Fatality and injury rates are based on total incidents including accidents and were calculated by dividing the number of fatalities, injuries, and incidents in this table by the number of vehicle miles.

^d Total does not include property damage for cable car, inclined plane, jitney, and ferry boat, which were: 1990–$335,000; 1991–$410,000; 1992–$288,000; 1993–$221,000; 1994–$322,000; 1995–$3,263,000; 1996–$157,000; 1997–$67,000; 1998–$24,000, 1999–$104,000.

NOTES: Data are provided only for transit systems that furnished safety data for inclusion in the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration Safety Management Information Statistics (SAMIS) annual reports.

Transit vehicle-miles in this table differ from those reported in Chapter 1.The American Public Transit Association, which is the source for the vehicle-miles table in Chapter 1, includes all transit systems, while SAMIS covers only directly operated urban transit systems.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration, Safety Management Information Statistics (SAMIS) 1999 Annual Report (Cambridge, MA: March 2001).