In 2023, the United States registered 995 rail fatalities and around 6,700 non-fatal injuries on the railroads. Injury and fatality numbers had fallen during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021, but 2022 saw a resurgence of accidents above pre-pandemic levels. Positive Train Control (PTC) Ever since the enactment of the Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (RSIA), the U.S. rail industry has been working on implementing the Positive Train Control (PTC) technology on over 60,000 miles of the rail network. The original deadline of December 31, 2015 was extended to 2018 after several railroads have stated they are unable to meet the deadline due to technical and legal complications. At the end of 2020, PTC had been implemented on railway routes that were required to do so. The Positive Train Control consists of a bundle of state-of-the-art technologies is meant to avoid accidents caused by human error, track or equipment malfunction, faulty movement of trains through a grade crossing, breaches on railroad tracks and other types of train operator errors. More precisely, PTC aims to prevent train-on-train collisions, deflections caused by excessive speed or other derailments on tracks where maintenance operations are underway. The technology uses a number of factors like weight and length of the train, track composition, train speed and train authorization in order to calculate the adequate stopping distance for a train. The PTC system includes an onboard locomotive system that monitors the position and speed of the train and triggers braking in case of speeding or unapproved train movement; a wayside system to check track signals, switches and track circuits for movement authorization; and a back office server that stores all relevant rail traffic information. Until 2015, 6.4 billion U.S. dollars have been spent for the PTC deployment on over more than 2,300 of track miles and more than 4,500 locomotives. By 2020, the total costs had risen to more than 10 billion U.S. dollars.

"This file contains reported cases of collisions, derailments, fires, explosions, acts of God, or other events involving the operation of railroad on-track equipment and involving damages exceeding the reporting threshold for the year reported. National files from 1975 through the current year are available for download. In addition, individual files by State are available for the years 1991 through the current year.

This file contains reported cases of impacts between on-track equipment and any user of a public or private highway-rail intersection. National files from 1975 through the current year are available for download. In addition, individual files by State are available for the years 1991 through the current year.

In the United States, the number of rail fatalities in 2020 decreased to 767 in total. By comparison, the number of rail accidents and injuries saw a decline between 2019 and 2020 and was overall at its lowest in 2020 since 2013. Fatalities through modes of transport

Generally, over the past few years, rail fatalities have constituted a small proportion of the overall fatalities occurring from transportation; highway fatalities surpassed rail fatalities by far back in 2017. Car accidents represent the leading cause of death for young adults between the ages of 20 and 24 in the U.S., with over 5,000 reported fatal crashes within this age group in 2018. Rail safety in the U.S.

Following the Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008, positive train control (PTC) technology is currently being installed nationwide across the rail network, with the deadline now pushed back to December 31, 2020. To date, PTC was fully implemented and in operation on Class I railroads. This PTC system sets out to prevent rail collisions, derailments due to excessive speed, and accidents caused by track switch errors. This Safety Act also regulates working hours for railroad workers, certifications held by certain members of the railroad workforce, and other safety measures.

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In the fiscal year 2022, most individuals injured in railroad accidents belonged to the category of personal accidents, adding up to **. Personal accidents are those not attributable to either train collisions, train derailments, fire outbreaks, grade crossings, or railroad track crossings. The total number of railway accidents in Japan amounted to ***.

This file contains reported cases of impacts between on-track equipment and any user of a public or private highway-rail intersection. National files from 1975 through the current year are available for download. In addition, individual files by State are available for the years 1991 through the current year.

In the fiscal year 2022, most railroad fatalities were personal accidents not attributable to either train collisions, train derailments, fire outbreaks, grade crossings, or railroad track crossings, adding up to ***. The total number of railway accidents amounted to ***.

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This dataset is the source dataset and contains raw data values. It will replace the current data download (https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/publicsite/on_the_fly_download.aspx) when the safetydata.fra.dot.gov site is decommissioned in 2024. To download data that contains data in a user-friendly human-readable format, please reference https://data.transportation.gov/Railroads/Rail-Equipment-Accident-Incident-Data/85tf-25kj.

Curated FRA Safety data pertaining to Rail Equipment Accidents (Form 54) Unique Train Accidents

Please note that this dataset displays unique train accidents. When an accident involves multiple railroads, each railroad must report its data. As a result, there can be multiple records for one accident. This dataset has been modified to pull and display one record for each accident.

Highway-rail crossing incidents have also been removed from this dataset because they are not considered train accidents.

To see the full dataset with all reports with all data for all accidents, please visit https://data.transportation.gov/Railroads/Rail-Equipment-Accident-Incident-Data/85tf-25kj

This file contains reported cases of impacts between on-track equipment and any user of a public or private highway-rail intersection. National files from 1975 through the current year are available for download. In addition, individual files by State are available for the years 1991 through the current year.

In the fiscal year 2022, personal accidents were the most common type of railroad accident in Japan, adding up to *** accidents. Railway crossing accidents were the second most common type of accident.

This file contains reported cases of impacts between on-track equipment and any user of a public or private highway-rail intersection. National files from 1975 through the current year are available for download. In addition, individual files by State are available for the years 1991 through the current year.

The number of train accidents across India was 48 at the end of financial year 2023. The industry has recorded the lowest accident figures over the last decade due to increased infrastructure developments and technological advancements. Road accidents, however, have been a major cause for concern across the south Asian country.

This is the landing page for data for Form 6180.54 Rail Equipment Accidents/Incidents.

This is the report for Fatalities, Injuries, and Illnesses in Train Accidents, Highway-Rail Incidents, and Other Incidents (4.08).

Between 2010 and 2022, the number of people killed in railway accidents decreased by 35 percent, a difference of over 440 deaths. With the exception of 2016 and 2022, every following year saw a decrease in the number of rail accident-related fatalities. The most significant decrease occurred in 2020, when fatalities fell by 14.3 percent year-on-year related with the reduction in passenger traffic caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

In 2022, there were ** railway accidents in Indonesia. Train derailment is often the cause of railways accidents in the archipelago. It represents more than ** percent of all railway accidents in Indonesia in the past seven years.

Total reportable fatalities. Fatalities may be reclassified upon subsequent reporting. The Federal Railroad Administration collects accident/incident and operational data from railroads.