Rail accidents by type of accident (ERA data)

Description

The rail accident data are provided to Eurostat by the European Railway Agency (ERA). The ERA manages and is responsible for the entire data collection. The Eurostat data constitute a part of the data collected by ERA and are part of the so-called Common Safety Indicators (CSIs). In Eurobase, the following data are available:

• Number of rail accidents by type of accident
• Number of rail accident victims by type of accident
• Number of rail accidents involving the transport of dangerous goods
• Number of suicides involving railways. 

Rail accident data are also collected in the framework of Regulation (EC) 91/2003 – Annex H: please refer to point 3.4 for more information.