RAIL-HIGHWAY CROSSING ACCIDENT/INCIDENT AND INVENTORY BULLETIN. NO. 2, CALENDAR YEAR 1979

U.S. rail-highway crossing accident/incident statistics for 1979, compiled from the Federal Highway Administration's rail-highway accident/incident and railroad casualty files, are tabularly and graphically displayed in the following sections: national, state, and railroad; highway user and vehicle; train and track; warning device; time, day, and weather; and motorist action. Information from the accident/incident file is combined with data in the National Rail-Highway Crossing Inventory to develop statistical relationships between certain grade crossing characteristics and accident frequencies. Physical (location, track, highway system, warning device) and operational (train traffic and speed, highway traffic) statistics are compiled for all public at-grade rail-highway crossings as described by the National Inventory in Jun 1980. Appended are definitions, reporting forms, miscellaneous data, and private crossing accident/incident data. In a 1979 total of 12,509 crossing accidents/incidents (all but 500 involving motor vehicles), 883 people were killed and 4378 were injured.

• Corporate Authors:

  Federal Railroad Administration

  Office of Safety, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Publication Date: 1980

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 134 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crashes; Railroad grade crossings; Statistics; Traffic incidents
• Uncontrolled Terms: Data; Incidents
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Railroads; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00373112
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-030 882
• Files: HSL, USDOT
• Created Date: May 31 1983 12:00AM