- Events per million miles
- 3.56
- #29 of 108 agencies · national 3.21 · median 2.88
- Events, all years
- 15,127
- #1 nationally by raw count · 2014-2026
- People killed
- 1,068
- 18,833 injured, 863 seriously
- Service driven
- 1,386M
- vehicle revenue miles, 2022-2024 · 4,936 events in that window
- Suicides 348
- Other or unclassified 265
- People on the right-of-way 188
- Waiting or boarding 139
- Riding the vehicle 79
- People on the road 40
- Transit workers 9
Mutually exclusive victim classes, summing to 1,068. Trespasser deaths are an overlay on these, not an extra row.
2014: 869 → 2025: 1590 · peak 1764
2026 excluded - it is a partial year.
2,008 total · peak 299 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 6,844
- Core Rail 6,813
- Other Non-Rail 1,470
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 NY
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