Tuesday's deadly Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia, which killed at least seven people and injured more than 200 others, may have people wondering, where is the safest place to sit on a train?
Conventional wisdom holds that the front car of a train is the most dangerous place in the event of a head-on collision, while the last car is less safe if the train is rear-ended. But, in fact, trains are nine times more likely to derail than to hit another train or car head-on or to get hit from behind, according tothe Federal Railroad Administration (FRA). The administration found that there were about 13,200 derailments from 2005 to 2014, compared with about 1,450 collisions. Read more...
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