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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10499

22 November 2011
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GENERAL NEWS / (ae) eu/transport
2010 - safest year for rail

Brussels, 21/11/2011 (Agence Europe) - Only 1,256 deaths were registered on the railways in 2010. This is the safest year since 2006, according to the figures collected by the European Railway Agency from the member states. This also equates to a 10% drop compared to the previous year. Sixty per cent of fatal accidents concerned people not authorised to be on the railways, and only 5% of deaths were of passengers or employees of the railways. However, these figures do not take account of...

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