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The dead are not the passengers / Agency

Ride On

Montgomery County, Maryland, dba: Ride On · Rockville, MD · NTD ID 30051

Ride On reported 447 major safety and security events across 2014-2026, in which 8 people died. Against the service it actually delivered, that is 2.97 events per million vehicle revenue miles - worse than 60 of the 108 agencies big enough to rank, and 1.08x better than the national rate.

Full
Events per million miles
2.97
#48 of 108 agencies · national 3.21 · median 2.88
Events, all years
447
#51 nationally by raw count · 2014-2026
People killed
8
487 injured, 0 seriously
Service driven
37M
vehicle revenue miles, 2022-2024 · 111 events in that window
Its rate on a scale ending at the worst agency in the country (New Orleans Regional Transit Authority, 12.54). The tick is the national rate (3.21).
Who died on this system
  • People on the road 5
  • People on the right-of-way 1
  • Waiting or boarding 1
  • Other or unclassified 1

Mutually exclusive victim classes, summing to 8. Trespasser deaths are an overlay on these, not an extra row.

Its events, by year

2014: 39 → 2025: 31 · peak 57

2026 excluded - it is a partial year.

Assaults on its workers
2014: 0 worker assault events 2015: 0 worker assault events 2016: 0 worker assault events 2017: 9 worker assault events 2018: 2 worker assault events 2019: 1 worker assault events 2020: 1 worker assault events 2021: 0 worker assault events 2022: 1 worker assault events 2023: 0 worker assault events (after the reporting change) 2024: 0 worker assault events (after the reporting change) 2025: 0 worker assault events (after the reporting change)

14 total · peak 9 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.

What it runs
  • Fixed-Route Bus 446
  • Other Non-Rail 1

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.