Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

• Suicides 31
• Waiting or boarding 16
• People on the road 9
• Other or unclassified 5
• People on the right-of-way 3
• Transit workers 2
• Riding the vehicle 1

Mutually exclusive victim classes, summing to 67. Trespasser deaths are an overlay on these, not an extra row.

2014: 177 → 2025: 283 · peak 383

2026 excluded - it is a partial year.

209 total · peak 22 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 1,997
• Core Rail 1,389
• Other Non-Rail 300

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.