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Highway-Rail Grade-Crossing Safety

Embedded Dataset Excel:

Dataset Excel:

table_02_05_092523.xlsx (23.94 KB)

Notes:

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. 

Description:

KEY: R = revised. 

a 1970 data are not comparable to later years due to a change in the reporting system.

Source:

1970-75: 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.

1980-2021: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, Office of Safety Analysis, FRA Accident/Incident Database, table 1.12, Ten Year Accident/Incident Overview, available at https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/default.aspx as of Sep. 13, 2023.

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