Re: Curious Statistics

["Bill McNiven" <wmcniven@gunzel.ozemail.com.au>]

nobody wrote in message <3875615b@pink.one.net.au>...
>Some staistics for safety of transport in 1997 (by no. of fatalities)
>Australia


>lowest fatalities: Air
>2nd lowest: bus
>3rd: rail
>4th: car
>5th: pedestrian
>6th: taxi

It would be interesting to know the source and some of the details behind
these "statistics".  If we're comparing rail with road and separating buses
from trucks, then we should separate passenger rail from freight rail too!

I'm having great difficulty recalling any deaths of rail passengers in 1997!
There were fatalities at Hines Hill (WA) in 1996 but, as it was a collision
between freights, no comparison with buses.

Do trams have a better or worse record than buses?  What about monorails?

>>THAT is what signals are for - to prevent that. With accidents at
Waterfall,
>Concord Westover the last couple of years,and 2 at hornsby, the olympic
>line, possibly at waverton if this ng is correct, glenbrook and near misses
>down south between two freights, up north with a 300 passenger XPT and a
>freight etc all due to signal related problems over the last year or so

And with the unfortunate exception of Glenbrook, there were no deaths.  This
reads like a "famous railway accidents" filler from the Daily Terrorgraph.