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Table 2-5: Highway-Rail Grade-Crossing Safety

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Table 2-5: Highway-Rail Grade-Crossing Safety

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  1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 (R) 2004 (R) 2005 (R) 2006 (R) 2007 (R) 2008 2009
Fatalitiesa 1,440 917 833 582 698 608 579 626 615 579 488 461 431 402 425 421 357 334 371 359 369 337 289 247
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 1,094 1,050 1,069 1055 965 705
Accidentsa 3,559 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 3,085 3,064 2,941 2,772 2,409 1,896

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 not to report property damage statistics, which had been 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 Issue), tables S and 11.

1975-1998: FRA Accident/Incident Database, available at http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/ as of June 28, 2010.

1998-2009: Ibid., Office of Safety Analysis, 2009 Preliminary Railroad Safety Statistics (Washington, DC: June 2010), table 1-1, available at http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/publicsite/Prelim.aspx as of June 17, 2010.