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:
“Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.”
—Stephen Vizinczey (b. 1933)
“Can we not teach children, even as we protect them from victimization, that for them to become victimizers constitutes the greatest peril of all, specifically the sacrifice—physical or psychological—of the well-being of other people? And that destroying the life or safety of other people, through teasing, bullying, hitting or otherwise, “putting them down,” is as destructive to themselves as to their victims.”
—Lewis P. Lipsitt (20th century)
“I nightly offer up my prayers to the throne of grace for the health and safety of you all, and that we ought all to rely with confidence on the promises of our dear redeemer, and give him our hearts. This is all he requires and all that we can do, and if we sincerely do this, we are sure of salvation through his atonement.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)