Passenger rail travel is extremely safe in the developed world. An average passenger could travel more than a billion kilometers in that setting before dying in a railoroad accident. But, some railoroads are still safer than others. The most remarkable safety record is that of East Japan Railway (JRE), the largest intercity railroad in the world, which has over its life span of ten years carried approximately 40 billion passengers and has suffered only one passenger fatality.
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