For me, the particularly interesting statistics are in the Rail Trends Factsheet, page 4, on Safety.
Of the 297 fatalities on the
UK▸ railways in 2015/16, 252 (85%) were suicides. Of the 516 major injuries, 33 were suicide attempts.
We do discuss the subject of suicide on the railways quite often here on the Coffee Shop forum, and I think those figures help to explain why. Most of those who decided to try to end their life using the railways were sadly successful - 88% died, 12% were seriously injured.
To me, those figures are so sad. Every one of them involved an individual human being.
