Police: Two die when Brightline commuter train crashes into SUV in Florida
DELRAEY BEACH, Florida. Two people have died after their SUV collided with a high-speed commuter train in South Florida, authorities said.
The accident happened on Wednesday evening in Delray Beach, south of West Palm Beach. Witnesses told police the car was on the tracks when it was hit by a southbound Brightline train. officials said.
National Transportation Safety Board announced that he is launching a team to conduct a safety investigation into the crash.
At least 80 deaths have been linked to Brightline since it began operating in July 2017, operating from West Palm Beach to Miami.
That’s one death in about every 32,000 miles (51,000 kilometers) its trains travel, according to an ongoing analysis by the Associated Press that began in 2019, the highest among the country’s more than 800 railroads.
Among U.S. railroads that travel at least 100,000 train miles (160,000 train kilometers) per year, the next highest figure since 2017 belongs to the SunRail commuter service in central Florida, which averages one death for every 117,000 miles. (188,000 kilometers).
None of the Brightline-related deaths were deemed the railroad’s fault. Most of them were suicides, pedestrians who tried to cross the tracks ahead of the train, or drivers who maneuvered around the gate instead of waiting.
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