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The dead are not the passengers / Agency

Utah Transit Authority

· Salt Lake City, UT · NTD ID 80001

Utah Transit Authority reported 1,278 major safety and security events across 2014-2026, in which 46 people died. Against the service it actually delivered, that is 3.35 events per million vehicle revenue miles - worse than 72 of the 108 agencies big enough to rank, and 1.05x the national rate.

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Events per million miles
3.35
#36 of 108 agencies · national 3.21 · median 2.88
Events, all years
1,278
#18 nationally by raw count · 2014-2026
People killed
46
482 injured, 70 seriously
Service driven
106M
vehicle revenue miles, 2022-2024 · 357 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
  • Suicides 23
  • People on the road 14
  • Waiting or boarding 5
  • People on the right-of-way 2
  • Riding the vehicle 1
  • Transit workers 1

Mutually exclusive victim classes, summing to 46. Trespasser deaths are an overlay on these, not an extra row.

Its events, by year

2014: 55 → 2025: 103 · peak 127

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: 1 worker assault events 2018: 0 worker assault events 2019: 0 worker assault events 2020: 0 worker assault events 2021: 0 worker assault events 2022: 2 worker assault events 2023: 0 worker assault events (after the reporting change) 2024: 1 worker assault events (after the reporting change) 2025: 1 worker assault events (after the reporting change)

5 total · peak 2 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
  • Core Rail 629
  • Fixed-Route Bus 550
  • Other Non-Rail 99

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.