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Table
2-31: Transit Safety and Property
Damage Data
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Fatalitiesa |
339 |
300 |
273 |
281 |
320 |
274 |
264 |
275 |
286 |
299 |
295 |
267 |
280 |
234 |
248 |
236 |
Injuriesa |
54,556 |
52,125 |
55,089 |
52,668 |
58,193 |
57,196 |
55,288 |
56,132 |
55,990 |
55,325 |
56,697 |
53,945 |
19,260 |
18,235 |
18,982 |
18,131 |
Accidentsb |
58,002 |
46,467 |
36,380 |
30,559 |
29,972 |
25,683 |
25,166 |
24,924 |
23,937 |
23,310 |
24,261 |
23,891 |
13,968 |
7,793 |
(R)
7,842 |
8,151 |
Incidentsa,b (includes accidents) |
90,163 |
83,139 |
73,531 |
64,986 |
70,693 |
62,471 |
59,392 |
61,561 |
60,094 |
58,703 |
59,898 |
58,149 |
30,331 |
19,797 |
20,939 |
21,016 |
Vehicle-miles
(millions) |
2,490 |
2,478 |
2,510 |
2,535 |
2,581 |
2,620 |
2,605 |
2,702 |
2,833 |
2,927 |
3,002 |
3,090 |
3,084 |
3,071 |
3,139 |
3,098 |
Rates per 100 million vehicle-milesc |
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Fatalities
(all reportable incidents) |
13.6 |
12.1 |
10.9 |
11.1 |
12.4 |
10.5 |
10.1 |
10.2 |
10.1 |
10.2 |
9.8 |
8.6 |
9.1 |
7.6 |
7.9 |
7.6 |
Injuries
(all reportable incidents) |
2,191 |
2,103 |
2,195 |
2,077 |
2,254 |
2,183 |
2,122 |
2,078 |
1,976 |
1,890 |
1,889 |
1,746 |
624 |
594 |
605 |
585 |
Accidents |
2,329 |
1,875 |
1,450 |
1,205 |
1,161 |
980 |
966 |
922 |
845 |
796 |
808 |
773 |
453 |
254 |
250 |
263 |
Property damaged (current $ millions) |
38.0 |
37.5 |
37.5 |
44.9 |
38.4 |
46.3 |
57.6 |
55.5 |
61.5 |
55.3 |
58.9 |
73.1 |
32.2 |
59.2 |
43.4 |
71.7 |
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; 2000-$77,000; 2001-$1,605,000; 2002-$254,000;
2003-$15,348,000; 2004-$604,000. The large increase in excluded property
damage reported in 2003 is a result of the Staten Island Ferry incident on
Oct. 16, 2003 which resulted in $15,000,000 of property damage.
e The drop in the number of
incidents, accidents, injuries, and property damage is due largely to a
change in definitions by the Federal Transit Administration, particularly the
definition of injuries. Only injuries
requiring immediate medical treatment away from the scene now qualify as
reportable. Previously, any injury was
reportable. Commuter rail data are now
derived from the Federal Railroad Administration's Rail Accident Incident
Reporting System (RAIRS). In addition, in 2002 the threshold for reporting
property damage was changed from $1,000 in transit property damage to $7,500
in total property damage.
NOTES
Data are provided only for transit systems that furnished safety
data for inclusion in the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit
Administration, Transit Safety and Security
Statistics and Analysis, 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 Transit Safety and Security Statistics and Analysis Annual
Report covers only directly operated urban
transit systems.
Prior to the 2000 edition, Transit
Safety and Security Statistics and Analysis Report was entitled Safety
Management Information Statistics (SAMIS)
annual report.
Analysts for the FTA believe the change in reporting
requirements in 2002 may have resulted in unreliable data in that year,
particularly for injuries, accidents, and incidents. The reliability of
reporting is believed to be much better in 2003 and is expected to improve in
the future.
SOURCE
1990 - 2005: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit
Administration, Transit Safety and Security
Statistics and Analysis Report (Cambridge,
MA: 2006), Internet site http://transit-safety.volpe.dot.gov/Data/Samis.asp as of March 7, 2006 and personal communications, Sep. 9, 2004, Apr. 22, 2005,
Apr. 24, 2006, and June 8, 2007.
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