Electric railway journal (1911) (14759179452)

Identifier: electricrailway381911newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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-son injured. In the case of passengers an overwhelmingpercentage of accidents was due to negligence in boardingand leaving the cars, although some were also caused byleaning beyond the clearance lines of the windows andplatforms. Most of the accidents to non-passengers re-sulted from either negligence in crossing the track orfrom side-wipes on devil strips, etc. Of every 100 fatalaccidents to passengers ninety-four were due to careless-ness of the passenger, four to the railway and two tocauses beyond the control of both parties. In the case ofnon-passengers the responsibility for fatal accidents aver-ages as follows: Non-passengers, 94.8 per cent, railway,4.5 per cent, and other parties, 0.7 per cent. Fig. 3 is an analysis of accidents to children caused bytrespassing on the tracks. This chart indicates that byfar the greatest percentage of fatal accidents occurs tochildren of less than four years of age. In fact, the deathsin this classification of accidents exceed either the minor
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Fig. 2—Causes of Accidents to Passengers and Non-Passengers (2403 miles) are electrically operated. The members ofthe association operate 3772 km (2339 miles). The acci-dent statistics cover the operations of lines having a routelength of 3658 km (2278 miles), equivalent to 95 per centof all the electric street railway mileage in Germany. Fig. 3—Accidents to Children or severe injuries by 20 per cent or more. These tragicfigures are cited to prove the need of giving children somesafer playgrounds than the public highways. Similarcurves (not reproduced) show that the greatest proportionof platform accidents to adults and of accidents to adult 39^ ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXXVIII, No. 10. non-passengers occur to people between the ages oftwenty-six and forty. Fig. 4 shows a division of accidents to adult passengersand adult non-passengers arranged according to sex. Thecomparatively large proportion of boarding and alightingaccidents to women may be explained perhaps by the ci