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Sep10
Someone missed a trick!
'Rail fatalities rise 18.2% in six months' was the headline in a US-based railway magazine. For the first six months of 2010, fatalities increased to 370.
However, 228 of these were trespassers and 124 were fatalities at level crossings. The latter are virtually always the fault of the road user.
Fatalities in train accidents increased from 1 to 6 - a 600% increase! Isn't that more of a screaming headline? How did they miss it? Especially since it's arguably more relevant - more within the control of the railways.
Oh and by the way, reported accidents and incidents were down about half a percent, train accidents down about five and a half percent and derailments down two and a half percent - but which headline writer ever bothers about good news like that?
And for those who noticed that 228 + 124 + 6 isn't 370, I can tell you that 10 more were employees and two were unexplained.
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