Table
2-37: Train Fatalities, Injuries, and
Accidents by Type of Accidenta
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Fatalities,
total |
29 |
8 |
10 |
19 |
6 |
67 |
12 |
14 |
25 |
18 |
4 |
9 |
10 |
6 |
15 |
4 |
13 |
Derailments |
8 |
2 |
2 |
10 |
2 |
53 |
2 |
2 |
6 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
7 |
1 |
2 |
Collisions |
20 |
6 |
8 |
5 |
1 |
14 |
8 |
7 |
16 |
10 |
1 |
7 |
1 |
4 |
4 |
0 |
8 |
Other |
1 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
3 |
0 |
2 |
5 |
3 |
6 |
2 |
1 |
7 |
1 |
4 |
3 |
3 |
Injuries,
total |
665 |
476 |
451 |
326 |
171 |
308 |
262 |
294 |
281 |
185 |
129 |
129 |
275 |
310 |
1,884 |
(R) 226 |
231 |
Derailments |
286 |
197 |
272 |
174 |
71 |
179 |
120 |
90 |
98 |
111 |
61 |
41 |
121 |
113 |
1,691 |
(R) 116 |
95 |
Collisions |
341 |
223 |
139 |
103 |
59 |
87 |
118 |
151 |
146 |
55 |
32 |
62 |
89 |
145 |
151 |
(R) 55 |
75 |
Other |
38 |
56 |
40 |
49 |
41 |
42 |
24 |
53 |
37 |
19 |
36 |
26 |
65 |
52 |
42 |
(R) 55 |
61 |
Accidents,
total |
8,205 |
3,275 |
2,879 |
2,658 |
2,359 |
2,611 |
2,504 |
2,459 |
2,443 |
2,397 |
2,575 |
2,768 |
2,983 |
3,023 |
2,738 |
(R) 2,992 |
3,310 |
Derailments |
6,442 |
2,495 |
2,146 |
1,936 |
1,734 |
1,930 |
1,825 |
1,742 |
1,816 |
1,741 |
1,757 |
1,961 |
2,112 |
2,234 |
1,989 |
(R)
2,115 |
2,376 |
Collisions |
1,201 |
366 |
315 |
261 |
207 |
205 |
240 |
235 |
205 |
202 |
168 |
205 |
238 |
220 |
192 |
(R) 200 |
236 |
Other |
562 |
414 |
418 |
461 |
418 |
476 |
439 |
482 |
422 |
454 |
650 |
602 |
633 |
569 |
557 |
(R) 677 |
698 |
KEY: P = Preliminary; R = revised.
a Excludes highway-rail grade crossing accidents.
NOTE
Train accidents only.
This table includes information for both freight and passenger
railroad operations.
SOURCES
1980-94: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad
Administration, Highway-Rail Crossing
Accident/Incident and Inventory Bulletin (Washington,
DC: Annual issues), tables 1-1, 1-3.
1995-2004: Ibid.,
http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/officeofsafety/Query/Default.asp as of Dec. 2,
2005.
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