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Railway Safety Directive
DIRECTIVE 2004/49/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 29 April 2004 on safety on the Community's railways and amending Council Directive 95/18/EC on the licensing of railway undertakings and Directive 2001/14/EC on the allocation of railway infrastructure capacity and the levying of charges for the use of railway infrastructure and safety certification (Railway Safety Directive) · European Union

Indicators relating to accidents Total and relative (to train kilometres) number of accidents and a break-down on the following types of accidents: collisions of trains, including collisions with obstacles within the clearance gauge, derailments of trains, level-crossing accidents, including accidents involving pedestrians at level-crossings, accidents to persons caused by rolling stock in motion, with the exception of suicides, suicides, fires in rolling stock, others. Each accident shall be reported under the type of the primary accident, even if the consequences of the secondary accident are more severe, e.g. a fire following a derailment. Total and relative (to train kilometres) number of persons seriously injured and killed by type of accident divided into the following categories: passengers (also in relation to total number of passenger-kilometres), employees including the staff of contractors, level-crossing users, unauthorised persons on railway premises, others.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-29 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.