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:
“The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“[As teenager], the trauma of near-misses and almost- consequences usually brings us to our senses. We finally come down someplace between our parents’ safety advice, which underestimates our ability, and our own unreasonable disregard for safety, which is our childlike wish for invulnerability. Our definition of acceptable risk becomes a product of our own experience.”
—Roger Gould (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)