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by pbadams 1376 days ago
There are also fewer buses needed to carry the same number of people, and they are operated by professional (and hopefully less distracted!) drivers.

I'm not sure a good data source, but I'd expect that the serious injury rate per person-mile of buses is much lower than that of private cars.

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I don't have serious injury, but deaths per 100m passenger miles is 1/10th to 1/20th the rate for private passenger vehicles.

Rail is 1/2 the bus fatality rate.

<https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics...>