Train collision or derailment every 1.5 hours. With that kind of frequency, would anyone believe that train travel and shipping would be deemed safe enough for continuation?

Perhaps they define collision as inclusive of the bumping to cars that can happen when a train is being joined to more cars in the train yard? Seems like that would pad the statistics.

Or maybe this is a worldwide statistic inclusive of 3rd world nations with poor infrastructure and high accident percentages.

Either that or they are including train derailment and collisions from the hobbiest's HO train sets. Oh look little Johnny has his trains on the same track heading toward each other.... And there's another train collision for the books.