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Written Question
Railways: Death
Thursday 12th May 2016

Asked by: Ronnie Campbell (Labour - Blyth Valley)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many fatalities have occurred on the railway network in Great Britain since 2014.

Answered by Claire Perry

Rail is a safe mode of travel and the frequency of train accidents involving passenger or workforce fatalities in the UK is at its lowest ever level with 2015-16 being the ninth year in succession without any such fatalities.

The following non-crash related fatalities have occurred on the rail network since 2014:

2014/15

2015/16 (provisional)

Passengers

3

6

Workforce

3

0

Public (non-trespass)

12

8

Public (trespass)

25

30

Suicide

289

252

Total

332

296