Allianz pro Schiene and Automobil-Club Verkehr (ACV) produced a comparison between different modes of transport. In it, it found that passengers in Germany who choose rail over travelling by car have a risk of death that is 56 times lower. This result is based on figures collected between 2008 and 2017. This marks a further increase to the previous ten-year analysis between 2007 and 2016.
Furthermore, the likelihood of someone becoming injured while travelling on a train is 133 times lower than while travelling in a car. The analysis also found that travelling by bus is much safer than travelling by car. However, rail wins out even compared to bus travel. Over the ten-year period almost five times as many passengers died per kilometre compared to rail. Furthermore, 46 times as many people suffered injuries on buses.
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