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Table 2-37: Train Fatalities, Injuries, and Accidents by Type of Accident^a

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	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	(R) 2004	(R) 2005	(R) 2006	2007
Fatalities, total	29	8	10	19	6	67	12	14	25	18	4	9	10	6	15	4	13	33	6	8
Derailments	8	2	2	10	2	53	2	2	6	2	1	1	2	1	7	1	2	2	3	4
Collisions	20	6	8	5	1	14	8	7	16	10	1	7	1	4	4	0	8	6	0	0
Other	1	0	0	4	3	0	2	5	3	6	2	1	7	1	4	3	3	25	3	4
Injuries, total	665	476	451	326	171	308	262	294	281	185	129	129	275	310	1,884	232	346	778	208	220
Derailments^b	286	197	272	174	71	179	120	90	98	111	61	41	121	113	1691	121	160	233	84	66
Collisions	341	223	139	103	59	87	118	151	146	55	32	62	89	145	151	56	142	92	85	108
Other	38	56	40	49	41	42	24	53	37	19	36	26	65	52	42	55	44	453	39	46
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) 3,016	3,380	3,259	2,951	2,580
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) 2,130	2,431	2,301	2,171	1,869
Collisions	1,201	366	315	261	207	205	240	235	205	202	168	205	238	220	192	198	237	251	198	200
Other	562	414	418	461	418	476	439	482	422	454	650	602	633	569	557	(R) 688	712	707	582	511

KEY: R = revised.

^aExcludes highway-rail grade crossing accidents.

^b In 2002, 1441 injures were due to a single derailment in North Dakota involving hazardous materials.

NOTES

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.

1995-2007: Ibid., http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/ Table 3.09 as of Apr. 8, 2008.

Table 2-37: Train Fatalities, Injuries, and Accidents by Type of Accidenta

Table 2-37: Train Fatalities, Injuries, and Accidents by Type of Accident^a