Railways: Electric Shock
(asked on 25th July 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of the number of passengers electrocuted on trains in each of the last five years.
This question was answered on 30th July 2024
There have been 198 recorded incidents of passengers being injured through electric shocks on trains in the last five years. The breakdown per year is provided below:
Year | Reported electric shocks to passengers on board trains resulting in injury |
2019 | 30 |
2020 | 16 |
2021 | 37 |
2022 | 57 |
2023 | 35 |
2024 (incomplete year) | 23 |
During this period, there were zero passenger fatalities on trains as a direct result of electric shocks.