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Network and Equipment
Highway-Rail Grade-Crossing Collisions
4.0 4.0 3.9
3.6 3.5
3.1 2.9 2.9 2.9
2.6
2.3 2.4 2.4 2.0 1.9
1.6 1.6
1.8 1.7
1.5
2010 2011 2012 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003
1.5
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2.5
3
3.5
4
4.5
Industry BNSF
Collisions Per Million Train Miles
Source: Federal Railroad Administration
Grade Crossings
To continue reducing the risk of an incident at a highway-rail crossing, BNSF invests an average of $95 million
annually on a combination of grade-crossing maintenance, technology and safety education programs. The
result is one of the industry’s lowest highway-railroad grade-crossing collision rates. Since 1995, the rate of
grade-crossing collisions involving BNSF has decreased about 70 percent, from 5.3 per million train miles in
1995 to 1.5 per million train miles in 2012. In addition, BNSF has worked with many communities and land
owners to close more than 5,600 grade crossings since 2000.
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