Which U.S. high speed rail has the highest death rate? The Brightline Rail
What is the major cause of death?
- Suicide
- Impatient motorists, pedestrians, or bicyclists who misjudge the trains’ speed & ignored bells
What do the numbers look like?
- 40 since July 2017
- 1 death per month
- 1 death for every 29,000 rail miles traveled
- By contrast, Florida East Coast, a freight line, has 1 death for every 160,000 miles during the past 2 years
What proactive work is the rail doing to lower these numbers?
- working with suicide prevention groups
- using infrared motion detectors to identify suicide potential
- drones to patrol tracks
CBS 4 Miami | Brightline, Florida’s High-Speed Train, Has Highest U.S. Death Rate