I read somewhere (I can't find the reference though) that the classification of "derailment" is pretty broad... meaning it's not what a layman might think (piles of rail cars strewn around the sides). So that 1000 very likely includes stuff where the train _technically_ derailed, but not "strewn about the countryside" as it were. So I th…
I read somewhere (I can't find the reference though) that the classification of "derailment" is pretty broad... meaning it's not what a layman might think (piles of rail cars strewn around the sides). So that 1000 very likely includes stuff where the train _technically_ derailed, but not "strewn about the countryside" as it were. So I think Buttigeig's claim is probably _technically_ correct. :shrug:
Correct. Accidents need to meet a reporting threshold to be sent to the FRA for databasing. So if just one wheel “hits the ground” and no injures that is a non reportable.
I read somewhere (I can't find the reference though) that the classification of "derailment" is pretty broad... meaning it's not what a layman might think (piles of rail cars strewn around the sides). So that 1000 very likely includes stuff where the train _technically_ derailed, but not "strewn about the countryside" as it were. So I think Buttigeig's claim is probably _technically_ correct. :shrug:
Correct. Accidents need to meet a reporting threshold to be sent to the FRA for databasing. So if just one wheel “hits the ground” and no injures that is a non reportable.