Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1897 — Safest Place in the World. [ARTICLE]

Safest Place in the World.

The proportion of deaths to the number of passengers carried on English railway trains is so infinitesimal as to make an express train—according to the law of probabilities—the safest place in the world. For the year 1895 the number of passengers carried during the twelve months in the United Kingdom was 930,907.730. Tbe number of passengers killed during the same year was five arid the number injured 399. Tbe risk run by a passenger of being killed while traveling is therefore 1-930,000,000 part of five, or, to put it more concisely, one passenger in every 180,000,000 may expect to be inlured if not killed.