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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
2024-03-04
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • 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
Posted by:Skidmark

#11  How many DUIs are suicides? No one ever questions that and just rack it up to the DUI. It is treated as so common in the culture. Got to get yourself liquored up to do it. Not to mention collateral damage aka other victims of the crash.

Gun grabbers throw in gun suicides in their kill statistics as well.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2024-03-04 10:40  

#10  Re: #7. It can be VERY quick, and explosively violent, depending on train speed. I had to take an annual Roadway Worker Protection for both Trolley and BNSF/AMTRAK safety training.
They would stress stories of finding shoes (with feet still in them) 100-300 yards from the collision, the rest a pink smear.
Posted by: Frank G   2024-03-04 09:21  

#9  San Diego County almost all are suicides. Except for the fools walking the tracks wearing earbuds
Posted by: Frank G   2024-03-04 09:10  

#8  WSB TV-2 Atlanta - Man found dead on train tracks in Floyd County, coroner says
Posted by: Besoeker   2024-03-04 08:54  

#7  Seems like a real unpleasant way to commit suicide.
If you're looking for quick and painless, this ain't it.
Posted by: ed in texas   2024-03-04 08:46  

#6  When I was driving a taxi for CSX railroad 12 of the 30 people I regularly drove had someone jump in front of their train.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2024-03-04 08:32  

#5  
Posted by: M. Murcek   2024-03-04 08:26  

#4  Check your life insurance policy before making any final decisions. There could be a 'train exclusion' clause.
Posted by: Besoeker   2024-03-04 08:23  

#3  Died from train or died with train...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2024-03-04 08:19  

#2  How exactly is any railroad supposed to prevent a person from jumping in front of a train along hundreds of thousands of miles of track?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2024-03-04 08:19  

#1  Suicide? Or stupidity? There's probably some overlap.
Posted by: Bobby   2024-03-04 08:15  

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