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[-] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

I'm not sure trains derail every day.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

This one caught me off guard:

As of October, the FRA has recorded 742 incident reports for train derailments in 2023. Additionally, railroads reported 59 collisions, 12 fires, and 138 highway-rail-crossing incidents, which could include cars or any other vehicles or people at the crossing site.

Since 1975, an average of 2,808 trains have derailed each year, with a peak of 9,400 derailments in 1978.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

I've got to assume most of those are things like single cars falling off the track in the switching yard or something, not major service-interrupting, cargo-damaging, or injury-causing incidents.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

That’s a fair assumption as a non industry expert. Nevertheless OOP was technically correct there. 😅

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

That's wild, I really never would have thought it was that common; thank you.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

What the frickity fuck?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

For the EU it’s hard to find the numbers on derailment, but in 2022 20 train travelers died due to an accident in total in all of the EU.

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