Table 2-16: Transit Incidents, Fatalities, Injuries, and Property Damage, All Transit Modes: 2002
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Table 2-16: Transit Incidents, Fatalities, Injuries, and Property Damage, All Transit Modes: 2002
| State | Collision | Noncollision | Total property damage ($ thousands) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of incidents | Fatalities | Injuries | Number of incidents | Fatalities | Injuries | ||
| Alabama | 14 | 0 | 27 | 10 | 0 | 12 | 181 |
| Alaska | 2 | 0 | 6 | 41 | 0 | 33 | 42 |
| Arizona | 57 | 0 | 43 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 97 |
| Arkansas | 76 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 254 |
| California | 950 | 50 | 741 | 1,618 | 26 | 1,505 | 9,748 |
| Colorado | 33 | 0 | 37 | 42 | 0 | 47 | 135 |
| Connecticut | 54 | 1 | 84 | 32 | 0 | 42 | 1,042 |
| Delaware | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| District of Columbia | 427 | 2 | 108 | 843 | 2 | 824 | 737 |
| Florida | 1,103 | 7 | 829 | 525 | 0 | 475 | 2,510 |
| Georgia | 177 | 3 | 190 | 261 | 1 | 244 | 689 |
| Hawaii | 49 | 3 | 48 | 82 | 0 | 77 | 315 |
| Idaho | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Illinois | 1,008 | 37 | 856 | 1,180 | 16 | 1,037 | 2,829 |
| Indiana | 158 | 0 | 125 | 66 | 0 | 54 | 728 |
| Iowa | 9 | 0 | 9 | 12 | 0 | 11 | 58 |
| Kansas | 4 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 68 |
| Kentucky | 77 | 2 | 54 | 32 | 0 | 30 | 177 |
| Louisiana | 27 | 2 | 49 | 9 | 0 | 12 | 61 |
| Maine | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 21 |
| Maryland | 194 | 4 | 314 | 149 | 0 | 123 | 910 |
| Massachusetts | 276 | 7 | 216 | 903 | 16 | 733 | 46 |
| Michigan | 1,233 | 4 | 93 | 97 | 0 | 50 | 8,762 |
| Minnesota | 77 | 1 | 83 | 57 | 0 | 55 | 450 |
| Mississippi | 33 | 0 | 29 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| Missouri | 210 | 1 | 213 | 171 | 1 | 162 | 449 |
| Montana | 5 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 18 |
| Nebraska | 9 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 82 |
| Nevada | 117 | 3 | 169 | 119 | 1 | 106 | 360 |
| New Hampshire | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| New Jersey | 560 | 8 | 696 | 522 | 25 | 429 | 134 |
| New Mexico | 50 | 0 | 54 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 10 |
| New York | 1,363 | 26 | 1,364 | 5,383 | 37 | 3,645 | 4,336 |
| North Carolina | 243 | 0 | 237 | 63 | 0 | 46 | 899 |
| North Dakota | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ohio | 295 | 5 | 348 | 176 | 0 | 167 | 2,063 |
| Oklahoma | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 84 |
| Oregon | 38 | 4 | 49 | 46 | 2 | 60 | 1,153 |
| Pennsylvania | 5,859 | 2 | 638 | 3,843 | 5 | 1,589 | 882 |
| Rhode Island | 345 | 0 | 59 | 197 | 0 | 3 | 14 |
| South Carolina | 19 | 0 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 77 |
| South Dakota | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Tennessee | 22 | 0 | 29 | 14 | 0 | 15 | 319 |
| Texas | 414 | 5 | 572 | 207 | 2 | 162 | 2,920 |
| Utah | 50 | 2 | 37 | 41 | 0 | 37 | 215 |
| Vermont | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 |
| Virginia | 189 | 0 | 119 | 86 | 0 | 73 | 254 |
| Washington | 191 | 2 | 163 | 164 | 1 | 153 | 1,270 |
| West Virginia | 8 | 0 | 7 | 12 | 0 | 11 | 140 |
| Wisconsin | 83 | 0 | 49 | 13 | 0 | 12 | 353 |
| Wyoming | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| United States, total | 16,119 | 184 | 8,801 | 17,058 | 135 | 12,070 | 45,932 |
NOTES: Collision includes at-grade crossings and suicides. Noncollision includes: 1) derailments/buses going off road; 2) personal casualties in parking facilities, inside vehicles, on right of way, boarding/alighting, and in station/bus stops; 3) evacuations for life safety; and 4) nonarson fires. For an incident to be reportable it must involve a transit vehicle or occur on transit property and either: 1) result in a fatality, injury or transit property damage greater than $7,500; 2) involve a nonarson fire; 3) involve a mainline derailment; or 4) involve an evacuation due to life safety.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration, 2002 National Transit Database.