Excerpt from Impairment, or Loss of Vision, From Spinal Concussion, or Shock
From the last-named period (1867) to the present time a progressive increase has taken place, and an average of three persons daily are now killed, and as many as eight a day are injured on the various lines of railway in this kingdom. The year 1874 will long be remembered by its disastrous casualties, the greater part of which, unhappily, arose from preventable causes. The total number of persons killed during the year on the various lines was 1,424, and of injured 5,041. Of these, 211 killed, and 1,981 injured, were passengers; of the remainder, 788 killed, and 2,815 injured, were servants of the companies or contractors; and 425 killed, and 215 injured, trespassers, or persons who met with accidents from causes over which companies have no control. The chances of being injured are, it will be seen, very great - one in every 500 are doomed to be mutilated or killed; and of the servants of the companies, one in every 350 are killed outright; while a very large number more, passengers and servants, are severely bruised, wounded, or shaken, and of whose injuries no record is kept.
The typical form of railway accident more frequently ending in spinal injury, and, pari passu, most destructive to human beings, is that caused by collision. It is impossible to ignore the fact that the greater number of collisions are due to causes quite within the control of railway companies. No better evidence of this can be adduced than that given at an inquest on one of the killed in the collision which occurred in September last to an excursion train on the London, Tilbury, and Southend line, when upwards of sixty persons were either injured or killed.
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