from tcpalm.com’s Lisa Broadt
The Federal Railroad Administration in a 2015 report described trespassing on the Florida East Coast tracks in South Florida as an “epidemic,” and since then trespassing fatalities have continued to grow, with 2018 on track to be even deadlier than last year.
In fact, there have been at least 76 deaths by Brightline passenger trains and Florida East Coast Railway freight trains on the Florida East Coast tracks, between Miami and Jacksonville, since 2015, according to an analysis of news stories, police reports and Federal Railroad Administration data by the USA TODAY Network-Florida.
Read the story here: https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/local/shaping-our-future/all-aboard-florida/2018/04/27/76-train-deaths-3-years-florida-east-coast-railroad-more-dangerous-than-reported/383293002/