BTFs III 🚅

Todays final BTF, brought to you in association with Ringo Starr not the best drummer in the Beatles is that: Over the Shinkansen's 50-plus year history, carrying over 10 billion passengers, there have been no passenger fatalities due to derailments or collisions, despite frequent earthquakes and typhoons.

Injuries and a single fatality have been caused by doors closing on passengers (whoopsie) or their belongings; attendants are employed at platforms to prevent such accidents. There have, however, been suicides by passengers jumping both from and in front of moving trains.

On 30 June 2015, a passenger committed suicide on board a Shinkansen train by setting himself on fire, killing another passenger and seriously injuring seven other people. 😱

Posted By: Tombs on May 16th 2018 at 16:10:45

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Bullet Train Facts 🚅 (General Chat) - Tombs, May 16, 16:02:05
- Can we have some Bullet Ant facts next? (General Chat) - Under soil heating, May 16, 16:26:53
  - I shall speak to the FACT committee and see if there's greediness for this (General Chat) - Tombs, May 16, 17:31:53
- Was a regular commuter bitd but (General Chat) - Old Splat, May 16, 16:11:08
  - i bet nobody sits on the floors by the shithouses over there either (n/m) (General Chat) - Tombs, May 16, 16:12:10
    - Wouldn't be allowed, different culture (General Chat) - Old Splat, May 16, 16:19:00
- BTFs III 🚅 (General Chat) - Tombs, May 16, 16:10:45
- BTFs II 🚅 (General Chat) - Tombs, May 16, 16:06:13
- I read that in ringo's voice... (General Chat) - yellowman, May 16, 16:04:15
  - excellent choice of internal vocalisation (n/m) (General Chat) - Tombs, May 16, 16:07:06

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