Train Accidents
There are literally thousands of train derailments and hundreds of train
collisions each year in the United States. These result in about 900
fatalities each year. At Blackman Legal Group our train accident lawyers
are familiar with the handling of the issues involved in train crash, collisions
and derailments, and have represented the families of victims who were killed in
these crashes and derailments.
Some very interesting data from the reports of the Federal Railroad
Administration Office of Safety Analysis is shown in the following chart.
This is for over 600 railroads throughout the US. There were more than 500,000,000
passengers that used railroads in the US in 2004.
| YEAR |
COLLISIONS |
DERAILMENTS |
FATALITIES |
| 2000 |
238 |
2,112 |
937 |
| 2001 |
220 |
2,234 |
971 |
| 2002 |
192 |
1,989 |
901 |
| 2003 |
200 |
2,117 |
866 |
| 2004 |
257 |
2,255 |
896 |
Because safety on the railroads in the United States is a serious
concern, there is a federal agency that is dedicated to the regulation of
railroad safety.
Safety
The FRA also is responsible to train and certify State safety inspectors to
enforce Federal rail safety regulations. Today, the State Rail
Safety Participation Program consists of 30 States employing 160 safety
inspectors in the five rail safety disciplines.
To ensure that regulations meet safety needs while providing flexibility to
choose the means of implementation, the FRA established the Railroad Safety Advisory
Committee. The RSAC is a collaborative effort that provides us with
consensus recommendations from the industry on a range of regulatory issues.
Central to the success of the rail safety effort is the ability to
understand the nature of rail-related accidents and to analyze trends in
railroad safety. To do this, the FRA collects rail accident/incident
datafrom the railroads and convert this information into meaningful
statistical tables, charts, and reports.
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