Railroad and Grade-Crossing Fatalities by Victim Class

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Notes:

Railroad only includes fatalities from train accidents, train incidents, and nontrain incidents (excludes highway-rail grade crossings). This table includes information for both freight and passenger railroad operations. Details may not add to totals due to different data sources are used.

Description:

KEY:  N = data do not exist; P = preliminary; R = revised.

^a Beginning in 1997, Nontrespassers off railroad property are also included.

^b The components of Grade crossing data were revised at a different point in time from the total Grade crossing data and may not sum to the total of Grade crossing data.

Source:

Railroad only and grade crossing:

1975-99: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, Office of Safety Analysis, Accident Trends - Summary Statistics, table 4.08, Casualties by Type Person and Primary Event, available at http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/Default.aspx as of Mar. 5, 2020.

2000-21: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, Office of Safety Analysis, Accident Trends - Summary Statistics, table 3.01, Hwy/Rail Incidents Summary Tables, available at http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/Default.aspx as of Aug. 17, 2022.

Motor vehicle and non-motor vehicle:

U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, Office of Safety Analysis, Highway-Rail Crossing Accidents, table 5.14, Highway-rail Incidents by Type Highway User, available at http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/Default.aspx as of Aug. 17, 2022.