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Originally Posted by oberon
Trains are already safer than planes.
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The accident rate for scheduled air services, measured in passenger fatalities per 100 million kilometres travelled, decreased from approximately 0.015 in 2003 to about 0.005 in 2004.
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Further, including trespassers but not suicides or people falling off bridges for rail, and all traffic accident casualties for roads, the comparative deaths per billion passenger-km are as follows.
(a) Rail
4.1
(b) Motorway
1.6
(c) Motorway and non-urban A-roads
5.0
(d) The latter excluding pedestrians, cyclists and motorbikes (classes of people seldom met with on railway alignments)
3.5
(e) All Roads with the same exclusion as at (d) above
2.8
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1 billion air passanger-km in 2003 and 2004 (averaged) kills about 0.1 people.
1 billion rail passanger-km on rail kills 4.1 people on average.
That places Railways at 41 times more dangerous, per passanger-KM, than Airplanes.