FACTS
The most common causes of train accidents include:- Negligence
- Human error
- Reckless pedestrians and drivers
- Mechanical failure
- Speedy trains
- Defective tracks
- Derailments
- Unprotected railroad crossings
- Stalled cars on the track
- Suicides
STATS
- In 2019, 1246 rail accidents were reported to the TSB.
- Freight trains accounted for 33% of all trains involved in rail accidents in 2019. Three percent (47 in total) were passenger trains, with the remaining 64% comprising mainly single cars/cuts of cars, locomotives, and track units.
- The largest proportion of reported rail accidents comprised non-main-track derailments (48%). Typically, most non-main-track accidents are minor, occurring during switching operations at speeds […]
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