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Breakdown of the injured and deaths
Annual report 2023
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Breakdown by type of persons
Year, number 2019 2020
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Deaths
Injured
3.5
Passengers Staff
Third
parties Total
Passengers Staff
Third
parties
Total
Accidents and incidents investigated during the past five years (2019 – 2023)
During the past five years there has been one accident where a safety investigation was initiated.
On March 11, 2022, a serious railway traffic accident took place at an automatically set level crossing in Ropka in southern Estonia. The safety investigation was concluded in 2023.
The Safety Investigation Bureau gathers information about every accident it has been notified of. For this it works in cooperation with infrastructure managers and other institutions. During the initial assessment the ESIB evaluates the impact of the occurrence on the safety situation in general. Due to the relatively small total number of accidents each year, five-year statistics do not always show a trend in the long term. Numerical fluctuations that may occur during this time are not reliable for making larger generalizations. The number of accidents that occurred in individual years and the safety investigations conducted reflect the current situation in railway traffic as a whole. The trends reflected in the safety of railway traffic are expressed by the statistics on railway accidents studied, which are much longer than five years.
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