on average, how many train derailmenrts in US per year???

[Mike Mercury]

200, 400?

a lot more than that:

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) is a branch of the United States Department of Transportation that analyzes and compiles information about the nation’s transportation systems.

Since 1975, the agency has been tracking train derailments, as well as injuries and fatalities that have happened during train crashes.

While fatalities from train derailments are rare, derailments themselves are actually quite common.

From 1990, the first year the BTS began tracking derailments and injuries on a yearly basis, to 2021, there have been 54,539 accidents in which a train derailed. That’s an average of 1,704 derailments per year.

Those numbers might seem pretty staggering, but derailments vary in severity and only a portion result in injuries. During that same time frame, 5,547 people were injured when a train derailed, or about 174 per year. Even then, much of that data is skewed due to a 2002 derailment in North Dakota in which a hazardous materials spill injured more than 1,400 people, BTS said.

Additionally, both passenger and freight trains are included in the data set, so the risk of being injured in a train derailment as a passenger is even less likely than the numbers might suggest.

https://ktla.com/news/nexstar-media-...han-you-think/

[Louie Detroit]

I wonder how many are caused by one of these safety devices?

[Egnalf]

>3 per Day

[Loco Vette]

Originally Posted by Louie Detroit

I wonder how many are caused by one of these safety devices?

If one of those caused it it was to prevent a much worse situation.

[Louie Detroit]

Originally Posted by Loco Vette

If one of those caused it it was to prevent a much worse situation.

Of course.

[Bruze]

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[the new me]

Originally Posted by Mike Mercury

200, 400?

a lot more than that:



https://ktla.com/news/nexstar-media-...han-you-think/

Well then, I guess everything is hunky-dory.

[mrvette]

At what speeds are most of the derails happen?? if at typical yard speeds, they what? for 5 mph or less?? anything above say 30 mph would be a threat for sure.......so to divide the amount of derailments up into serious threats vs just slowing down and screwing up the tracks for a while, a 2 day affair?? depending......

[ZipZap]

I can't tell if this statistic should worry me, or I should just treat it like suicides in gun violence numbers.

[Mike Mercury]

why is the media pushing this then?

https://news.yahoo.com/second-ohio-d...193431262.html

Second Ohio Derailment Raises Ire in Congress on Rail Safety

“The big railroads have weakened safety rules or resisted safety rules for years,” Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday.

Sherrod Brown is one of the very few democrats holding office in Ohio. Why not interview the multitude of non-democrat officials in the state?

I don't trust them; they are trying to line something up... to benefit the Democrats in some manor.

[Louie Detroit]

They’re just reinforcing the false narrative train derailments are all Trumps fault due to some safety rule he didn’t pass, they slavishly protect the image of the transportation sodomite.

[Bruze]

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[DJ_Critterus]

Originally Posted by Bruze

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It's only off by 1/8"

[bsmith]

A buddy started a business and had a contract cleaning up derailments for years.
Very lucrative.
They happen regularly.

[jw38]

Originally Posted by Mike Mercury

why is the media pushing this then?

https://news.yahoo.com/second-ohio-d...193431262.html


Sherrod Brown is one of the very few democrats holding office in Ohio. Why not interview the multitude of non-democrat officials in the state?

I don't trust them; they are trying to line something up... to benefit the Democrats in some manor.

Because it's the latest democrat talking point.