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Florida's Brightline high-speed passenger trains - with the worst fatality rate in nation - kill one person and seriously injure another in separate accidents less than 12 hours apart
- Tuesday night's death was the ninth involving Florida's privately owned passenger railroad since it resumed operations in November
- It's the 57th since Brightline began test runs in 2017, giving it the worst per-mile fatality rate in the nation
- Investigators found none of the deaths were the railroad's fault, determining that many were suicides or drivers or pedestrians trying to beat the trains
- The trains travel up to 79mph through densely populated urban and suburban areas along about 70 miles of track between Miami and West Palm Beach
Posted by: Skidmark 2022-02-18 |
