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-Short Attention Span Theater-
America's deadliest railroad: Florida's Brightline passenger service is expanding rapidly as the state booms - but its track fatality rate is THREE TIMES higher than nation's second-worst line
2024-01-22
A three times higher accident rate?
Poss a 3 times higher travel rate?
Good, consistent, oblivious ped and gate crosser performance.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Florida's Brightline train has brought higher-speed rail to the Sunshine State

  • But is vexed by fatal collisions with pedestrians and motorists at crossings

  • Per mile traveled, the line has the highest fatality rate of any US railroad

  • At least 108 people have died on Brightline tracks since it began operations in 2017, roughly one death for every 38,000 miles traveled, three times higher than the second-worst railroad
Posted by:Skidmark

#5  Near where I live in Ohio, they have started putting in concrete lane dividers at RR crossings to prevent anyone from driving around the arm. I have never see anyone take the risk in years here regardless.
Posted by: Super Hose   2024-01-22 13:04  

#4  ^ Yes. I don't live near the Brightline, but I do cross the Florida East Coast's tracks every day. People waiting out the red light of a nearby intersection on the tracks, driving around the gate while it's down all very common.

That's not the railroad's fault.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2024-01-22 07:06  

#3  Darwin at work
Posted by: Procopius2k   2024-01-22 06:40  

#2  That "vexing" arm, annoying bell, and the flashing lights, what do they all mean ?

Posted by: Besoeker   2024-01-22 06:16  

#1  At least 108 people have died on Brightline tracks since it began operations in 2017

Seven years now is it? Big Pharma will never experience such devastating statistics.

(sarc off)
Posted by: Besoeker   2024-01-22 06:10  

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