transport accident
A transport accident is any accident or incident that occurs during any type of transportation, including those occurring during road transport, rail transport, marine transport and air transport.{{Cite web |title=Archive:Transport accident statistics |url=https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Archive:Transport_accident_statistics |access-date=2024-05-03 |website=ec.europa.eu |language=en}} It can refer to:
- a road traffic incident (including vehicle collision, pedestrian–bicycle collisions, pedestrian–pedestrian collisions etc.)
- a marine accident (sailing ship accident, including man overboard)
- railroad accidents (including train wreck)
- an aviation accident and incident
Comparisons
There are three main ways in which risk of fatality of a certain mode of travel can be measured:
Deaths per billion typical journeys taken, deaths per billion hours traveled, or deaths per billion kilometers traveled.{{Cite web |author=Jennifer Oxley |author2=Bruce Corben |author3=Brian Fildes |author4=Mary O’Hare |author5=Talib Rothengatter |date=December 12, 2010 |title=Older Vulnerable Road Users – Measures to Reduce Crash and Injury Risk |url=https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Risk-of-death-per-billion-kilometres-travelled-by-age-and-mode-of-transport-in-the_fig5_242311079 |publisher=Monash University Researcn Accident Centre}} The following table displays these statistics for the United Kingdom 1990–2000. Note that aviation safety does not include the transportation to the airport.[http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/risks_of_travel.htm The risks of travel] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010907173322/http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/risks_of_travel.htm |date=September 7, 2001 }}. The site cites the source as an October 2000 article by Roger Ford in the magazine Modern Railways and based on a DETR survey.{{cite journal | last1 = Beck | first1 = L. F. | last2 = Dellinger | first2 = A. M. | last3 = O'neil | first3 = M. E. | year = 2007 | title = Motor vehicle crash injury rates by mode of travel, United States: using exposure-based methods to quantify differences | url = http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/166/2/212.short | journal = American Journal of Epidemiology | volume = 166 | issue = 2| pages = 212–218 | doi=10.1093/aje/kwm064| doi-access = free | pmid = 17449891 }}
| class="wikitable sortable"
! rowspan=2 | Type ! colspan=3 | Deaths per billion | |||
| Journeys
! Hours ! km | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Bus | 4.3 | 11.1 | 0.4 |
| Rail | 20 | 30 | 0.6 |
| Van | 20 | 60 | 1.2 |
| Car | 40 | 130 | 3.1 |
| Foot | 40 | 220 | 54.2 |
| Water | 90 | 50 | 2.6 |
| Air | 117 | 30.8 | 0.05 |
| Pedal cycle | 170 | 550 | 44.6 |
| Motorcycle | 1640 | 4840 | 108.9 |