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	2001	2002	(P) 2003
Fatalities, total	29	8	10	19	6	67	12	14	25	18	4	9	10	6	15	4
Derailments	8	2	2	10	2	53	2	2	6	2	1	1	2	1	7	1
Collisions	20	6	8	5	1	14	8	7	16	10	1	7	1	4	4	0
Other	1	0	0	4	3	0	2	5	3	6	2	1	7	1	4	3
Injuries, total	665	476	451	326	171	308	262	294	281	185	129	129	275	310	(R) 1,884	224
Derailments	286	197	272	174	71	179	120	90	98	111	61	41	121	113	(R) 1,691	115
Collisions	341	223	139	103	59	87	118	151	146	55	32	62	89	145	(R) 151	56
Other	38	56	40	49	41	42	24	53	37	19	36	26	65	52	(R) 42	53
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	(R) 2,738	2,950
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	(R) 1,989	2,089
Collisions	1,201	366	315	261	207	205	240	235	205	202	168	205	238	220	(R) 192	202
Other	562	414	418	461	418	476	439	482	422	454	650	602	633	569	(R) 557	659

KEY: P = preliminary; 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.

1999-2003: Ibid., http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/officeofsafety/Query/Default.asp as of June 17, 2004.

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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