The first death involving a Brightline train, which officially launched in January 2018, happened in July 2017 during test runs. Since then, 40 more people have been killed.
FILE - In this April 4, 2019, file photo Richard Branson, of Virgin Group, waves as he arrives on a Brightline train in West Palm Beach, Fla. The Brightline, a higher-speed passenger train service tied to Richard Branson's Virgin Group, has the worst per-mile death rate in the U.S. .
The first death involving a Brightline train, which officially launched in January 2018, happened in July 2017 during test runs. Since then, 40 more have been killed — a rate of more than one a month and about one for every 29,000 miles the trains have traveled, according to an analysis of Federal Railroad Administration data by The Associated Press.None of Brightline’s deaths were caused by crew error or faulty equipment, according to law enforcement and federal reports.
“There are few railroads you will find who have done more to mitigate these types of issues,” Goddard said. The federal reports filed by Brightline and other railroads after each death usually describe the following scenario: The engineer spotted someone on the tracks, sounded the horn and hit the emergency brake, but the person was fatally struck. A full-speed Brightline train takes a quarter-mile to stop.
“Even though it is not their fault, they feel like it is ... and a lot of them suffer,” Goddard said. The company declined to make an engineer available for comment.
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