Safety
| U.S. passenger fatalities per billion passenger-miles, 2002-2007 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Mode | Passenger fatalities |
Passenger-miles (millions) |
Passenger fatalities per billion passenger miles |
| Passenger car | 127,124 | 15,958,620 M | 7.97 |
| Light rail | 79 | 9,980 M | 7.92 |
| Motor bus | 399 | 117,982 M | 3.38 |
| Commuter rail | 105 | 59,736 M | 1.76 |
| Heavy rail (subway) | 106 | 86,900 M | 1.22 |
| Railroad (intercity) | 36 | 33,234 M | 1.08 |
| Airline | 113 | 3,326,286 M | 0.03 |
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Famous quotes containing the word safety:
“There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.... Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn’t have to; but if he didn’t want to he was sane and had to.”
—Joseph Heller (b. 1923)
“For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman;... but what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the same reason that I do.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“... what a family is without a steward, a ship without a pilot, a flock without a shepherd, a body without a head, the same, I think, is a kingdom without the health and safety of a good monarch.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)