The WaPo article appears to refer to passenger fatalities per billion passenger miles, not total fatalities. For comparison, trains in the European Union in 2021 apparently had ca. 0.03 passenger fatalities per billion passenger miles, but almost 0.3 total fatalities per million train miles.
The WaPo article appears to refer to passenger fatalities per billion passenger miles, not total fatalities. For comparison, trains in the European Union in 2021 apparently had ca. 0.03 passenger fatalities per billion passenger miles, but almost 0.3 total fatalities per million train miles.