One of Leading causes? Bullshit. Show me the stats.
Yes, for career politicians, Washington is their own personal business venture. It is a very lucrative career.
Yep, just like Dotard made his presidency a very lucrative career, costing Americans over $150 million, then profiting on his golf trips, over a years worth, 1/3 of his presidency playing golf.
May 13, 2015
A massive derailment of an Amtrak train in Philadelphia claimed the lives of at least six people and injured another 140 people on Tuesday night, just one of a handful of fatal train accidents this year. Derailments are by and large the leading cause of train crashes in the United States. Between 2001 and 2010, of the 58,299 train accidents that occurred, 54,889 were train derailments. That’s a staggering 94 percent.
Broken rails and welds are the most common cause of train derailments. They account for more than 15 percent of derailments, according to DATA from the Federal Railroad Administration.
Broken rails and welds were more than twice as likely to have been the cause of train derailments than the second and third leading causes—track geometry and bearing failure. Track geometry, which includes such things as train alignment, gauge and elevation, was responsible for 7.3 percent of derailments and bearing failure was responsible for 5.9 percent.
October 26, 2016
The FRA divides train crash causes into six broad categories: track issues, signal errors, highway-rail collisions, equipment defects, human error, and miscellaneous causes. However, more accidents are caused by human error than by any other type of problem: over one third of all crashes reported. Just compare these accident totals from January to July of 2016:
Human Error – 322 (33.5%)
Track Defects – 268 (27.9%)
Miscellaneous Causes – 144 (15%)
Faulty Equipment – 128 (13.3%)
Train-Vehicle Collisions – 80 (8.3%)
Signal Errors – 18 (1.9%)
Though alarmingly prevalent, human errors aren’t the only major causes of railroad disasters. Track defects – many of which are indirectly caused by human error – also accounted for a significant portion of the crashes reported. Types of track problems that caused railroad crashes during the reporting period included:
Broken welds
Broken or malfunctioning switches
Cracks or breaks around bolt holes
Damage to tracks from rain or other conditions
Worn down rails
