Table 2-11: Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Incidents: 2008
Table 2-11: Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Incidents: 2008
(Includes freight railroad, Amtrak, and commuter rail operations)
| State | Number of | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade crossings | Incidents | Fatalities | Injuries | |
| Alabama | 4,484 | 84 | 10 | 34 |
| Alaska | 334 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Arizona | 1,285 | 22 | 1 | 13 |
| Arkansas | 4,364 | 69 | 7 | 21 |
| California | 10,219 | 142 | 25 | 90 |
| Colorado | 2,842 | 31 | 8 | 3 |
| Connecticut | 646 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Delaware | 426 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| District of Columbia | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Florida | 5,244 | 75 | 25 | 30 |
| Georgia | 7,915 | 108 | 8 | 37 |
| Hawaii | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Idaho | 2,452 | 20 | 2 | 4 |
| Illinois | 12,279 | 152 | 27 | 69 |
| Indiana | 7,955 | 141 | 19 | 45 |
| Iowa | 7,347 | 72 | 5 | 25 |
| Kansas | 8,145 | 43 | 9 | 16 |
| Kentucky | 4,815 | 51 | 4 | 17 |
| Louisiana | 5,579 | 113 | 15 | 43 |
| Maine | 1,679 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Maryland | 1,357 | 17 | 0 | 3 |
| Massachusetts | 1,376 | 8 | 1 | 3 |
| Michigan | 7,283 | 59 | 4 | 21 |
| Minnesota | 7,146 | 57 | 6 | 20 |
| Mississippi | 4,177 | 70 | 14 | 71 |
| Missouri | 6,872 | 46 | 10 | 17 |
| Montana | 3,282 | 19 | 2 | 4 |
| Nebraska | 4,988 | 48 | 2 | 20 |
| Nevada | 523 | 6 | 0 | 3 |
| New Hampshire | 598 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| New Jersey | 2,165 | 32 | 1 | 17 |
| New Mexico | 1,234 | 10 | 1 | 4 |
| New York | 5,320 | 39 | 6 | 13 |
| North Carolina | 7,027 | 69 | 8 | 29 |
| North Dakota | 4,796 | 14 | 1 | 5 |
| Ohio | 9,245 | 95 | 12 | 34 |
| Oklahoma | 5,276 | 58 | 8 | 30 |
| Oregon | 4,361 | 13 | 2 | 1 |
| Pennsylvania | 6,780 | 60 | 6 | 12 |
| Rhode Island | 138 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| South Carolina | 3,990 | 62 | 6 | 17 |
| South Dakota | 3,011 | 13 | 1 | 9 |
| Tennessee | 4,700 | 63 | 5 | 26 |
| Texas | 15,053 | 228 | 17 | 95 |
| Utah | 1,315 | 12 | 0 | 2 |
| Vermont | 957 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| Virginia | 4,440 | 44 | 4 | 14 |
| Washington | 5,246 | 36 | 4 | 6 |
| West Virginia | 3,451 | 15 | 2 | 8 |
| Wisconsin | 6,481 | 69 | 1 | 14 |
| Wyoming | 1,103 | 4 | 0 | 2 |
| United States, total | 221,743 | 2,407 | 289 | 950 |
NOTES: Data are preliminary. Any impact, regardless of severity, between railroad on-track equipment and any user of a public or private crossing site must be reported to the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration on Form F 6180.57. The crossing site includes sidewalks and pathways at, or associated with, the crossing. Counts of Fatalities and Injuries include motor vehicle occupants, people not in vehicles or the trains, as well as people on the train or railroad equipment.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, 2008 Preliminary Railroad Safety Statistics Bulletin (Washington, DC: December 2009), tables 2-11 and 9-2, available at http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/publicsite/Prelim.aspx as, as of Apr. 19, 2010.