Safest Place on Earth.
A British railway train is still, the “Railway Magazine” points out. the safest place on earth, as only one passenger in seventy millions is killed, and one in every 2.300,000 injured. This deduction is based upon a careful survey of the Board of Trade report on railway accidents during the year 1907. In 1908 the number of fires in trains amounted to 170, but it should be explained that many of these were of the most trifling description. It is a significant fact that of the number of fires reported not a single one occurred, either directly <»r indirectly, through a lightning flash. It would appear that for some reason railway trains are practically immune from the disastrous effects which usually mark the track of a violent thunderstorm.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIV, Issue 10, 9 March 1910, Page 3
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132Safest Place on Earth. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIV, Issue 10, 9 March 1910, Page 3
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