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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 |
227 |
288 |
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 |
19,238 |
20,625 |
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 |
7,842 |
8,151 |
8,970 |
9,398 |
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 |
22,593 |
23,935 |
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 |
3,126 |
3,166 |
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 |
7.3 |
9.1 |
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 |
615 |
651 |
Accidents |
2,329 |
1,875 |
1,450 |
1,205 |
1,161 |
980 |
966 |
922 |
845 |
796 |
808 |
773 |
453 |
254 |
250 |
263 |
287 |
297 |
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 |
37.9 |
39.7 |
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 beginning from 2002 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, the threshold for reporting property damage was changed
from $1,000 in transit property damage to $7,500 in total property damage
starting from 2002.
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.
SOURCE
U.S. Department of
Transportation, Federal Transit Administration,
Transit Safety and Security Statistics and Analysis Report (Cambridge, MA: 2006), available at
http://transit-safety.volpe.dot.gov/Data/Samis.asp as of March 23, 2009.
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