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Do you have data to back up that trains in Europe are safer than the US (for passengers, pedestrians get hit a lot. Getting hit by a train is bad regardless)?
by xxpor 3y ago
Do you have data to back up that trains in Europe are safer than the US (for passengers, pedestrians get hit a lot. Getting hit by a train is bad regardless)?
The FRA refuses to let us use European light trainsets because they're "unsafe", because they're too light. They're worried about collisions with freight trains.
- wongarsu 3y agoThere is e.g. [1], which puts the EU-27 at about 4 times safer than the US. As for European light trainsets not surviving collisions with freight trains: trains generally don't fare well in high speed collisions. And at low speed collisions European commuter trains (something like [2]) would be doing fine, meanwhile light rail (like [3]) isn't designed to collide with anything heavier than a truck. I don't think anybody in Europe runs freight trains on shared tracks with light rail. 1: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2011/06/02/comparative-rail-safety/ https://pedestrianobservations.com/2011/06/02/comparative-ra... 2: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DB-Baureihe_430#/media/Datei:120923-Innotrans-BR_430_Stuttgart.JPG https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DB-Baureihe_430#/media/Datei:1... 3: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/K4500_VB_Presentation.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/K4500_VB...
- psychlops 3y agoWhy are we comparing US cars versus European trains again?