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Facts and Statistics (U.S. and Minnesota)
- On average, more people die in highway-rail crashes than in commercial airline crashes each year.
- When a train crushes a car, it's equivalent to a car crushing a pop can.
- A typical train weighs the same as 4,000 automobiles combined.
- About two-thirds of all collisions at crossings in the United States happen in daylight.
- Approximately every two hours, either a vehicle or a pedestrian is struck by a train in the U.S., an average of 12 incidents each day.
- According to statistics from the Federal Railroad Administration: in 2006, 310 people were killed and 1,026 seriously injured in 2,923 highway-rail grade crossing collisions (combined public and private crossings).
- In 2006, 12 people were killed and 17 injured in 61 highway-rail grade crashes in Minnesota.
- In 2006 in the United States, 518 people were killed while trespassing on railroad right-of-way and property, including 6 people in Minnesota. An additional 470 trespassers were injured, including 6 in Minnesota.
- A motorist is almost 20 times more likely to die in a crash involving a train than in a collision involving another motor vehicle.
- Three out of four crashes occur within 25 miles of a motorist's home. Fifty percent of all crashes occur within five miles of home.
- More than half of all grade crossings collisions occur where train speeds are 30 mph or less.
- There are 20 freight railroads, the Amtrak passenger service and the Hiawatha corridor lightrail line operating in Minnesota.
- There are 4,631 commercial rail line miles in Minnesota. If you placed all the railroad tracks in Minnesota end to end, you could ride a train from Minnesota to Washington D.C. and back almost twice.
- There are approximately 218,000 miles of railroad track in the United States.
- Approximately 30% of public crossings in Minnesota have active warning signals.
Sources:
Federal Railroad Administration
Operation Lifesaver, Inc.
Minnesota Department of Transportation
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