- Events per million miles
- 5.17
- #13 of 108 agencies · national 3.21 · median 2.88
- Events, all years
- 6,280
- #2 nationally by raw count · 2014-2026
- People killed
- 227
- 8,809 injured, 100 seriously
- Service driven
- 338M
- vehicle revenue miles, 2022-2024 · 1,748 events in that window
- Waiting or boarding 61
- Suicides 57
- Other or unclassified 51
- People on the road 27
- Riding the vehicle 20
- People on the right-of-way 7
- Transit workers 4
Mutually exclusive victim classes, summing to 227. Trespasser deaths are an overlay on these, not an extra row.
2014: 405 → 2025: 662 · peak 662
2026 excluded - it is a partial year.
742 total · peak 91 in a year
The dashed line is the 2023 FTA reporting change. Bars after it are better captured, so the step up across that line is partly a change in counting, not only a change in the world.
- Fixed-Route Bus 4,159
- Core Rail 2,121
Share of its events by mode. Mode mix moves a rate: street-running light rail generates several times the events per mile that suburban bus does, so read this beside the rate above.
Other agencies in IL
The biggest systems in the country
Numbers on the chips are events per million vehicle revenue miles, 2022-2024.
Generated 2026-07-13 02:56 UTC
Source: FTA National Transit Database - Major Safety and Security Events, joined to NTD Metrics for the service denominator