Buses and coaches are the safest mode of passenger transport!
According to Germany's "Statistisches Bundesamt", coaches are 45 times safer than individual motorised vehicles. In 2002, the number of fatalities per billion passenger/km was:
| uses & coaches |
0.16 |
| cars |
7.30 |
| railways |
0.56 |
| air travel |
2.34 |
Since 1980, all passenger transport modes have reduced their death toll significantly:
Source: BDO, 2003
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