Daily Mail, London, UK 3/3/24
Are America's railroads hiding their suicide problem? Expert claims MAJORITY of all train fatalities in the country are self-inflicted deaths, with hundreds misclassified every year
- Research suggests that suicide could account for majority of all US rail deaths
- Federal reports claim that suicides are less than 30% of all deaths
- But issues with the reporting may hide the true scale of the problem
Although high-profile train derailments and collisions at crossings draw the most attention, the deadliest issue on America's rail system may be going unnoticed.
Reports issued by the US Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) claim suicides account for less than 30 percent of all rail fatalities in the country over the past decade.
But recent research, supported by multiple industry experts interviewed by DailyMail.com, suggests that the majority of all deaths involving trains in the US are intentional and self-inflicted.
