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Table 2-5:
Highway-Rail Grade-Crossing Safety
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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
a 1970 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.
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