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

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Fatalities
Derailments	8	2	2	10	2	53	2	2	6	2	1	^R1	2
Collisions	20	6	8	5	1	14	8	7	16	^R10	1	^R7	1
Other	1	0	0	4	3	0	2	5	3	6	2	^R1	7
Total	29	8	10	19	6	67	12	14	25	^R18	4	9	10
Injuries
Derailments	286	197	272	174	71	179	120	90	98	111	61	^R41	121
Collisions	341	223	139	103	59	87	118	151	146	^R55	32	^R62	89
Other	38	56	40	49	41	42	24	53	37	^R19	36	^R26	65
Total	665	476	451	326	171	308	262	294	281	^R185	129	^R129	275
Accidents
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
Collisions	1,201	366	315	261	207	205	240	235	205	202	168	205	238
Other	562	414	418	461	418	476	439	482	422	454	650	602	633
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

KEY: 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:

1980-96: 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.

1997-98: Ibid. Railroad Safety Statistics Annual Report 1998 (Washington, DC: September 1998), table 1-1, 1-3, 5-6.

1999-2000: Ibid., FRA Safety Data Portal as of Aug. 10, 2001.

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

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