YSK: in the US, you are twelve times more likely to die in a car crash than you are a train crash, per mile traveled.
There is likely to be a lot of fear-mongering around train travel in the US after yesterday's crash; for example, the media are already calling the crash a "high speed rail" crash despite the fact that it was actually regular Amtrak service.
Cars and trucks are the most dangerous form of transportation aside from motorcycles - with 5.75 deaths per billion passenger miles.
Trains have 0.47 deaths per billion passenger miles.
Busses have 0.14 deaths per billion passenger miles.
Planes have 0.06 deaths per billion passenger miles.
Source: http://ift.tt/1EFnTOe
YSK: in the US, you are twelve times more likely to die in a car crash than you are a train crash, per mile traveled.
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