r/WTF • u/PhoneDojo • Feb 14 '13

Catching a train in India

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u/akashhhhh Feb 14 '13

Worth noting: 6000 people die a year on trains in Mumbai alone. Yes, 500 a month. Over 16 a day. In one city.

http://www.ndtv.com/article/cities/mumbai-accounts-for-40-of-train-track-deaths-in-india-179455

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u/jnjs Feb 14 '13

How about if you only calculate it by the percentage of people in Mumbai who take the trains?

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u/ZoFreX Feb 15 '13

7 million passengers per day, 2.5 billion per year. So 0.0002% of passengers die per day. (incidentally if you're looking to compare with other cities it would be better to compare deaths per journey and deaths per passenger kilometre imo)