Railway accidents, persons killed and injured

National Statistical Institute

"Short-term Business Statistics and Transport Statistics" Department

Marin Toshev

State expert

2, P.Volov Str. Sofia 1038, Bulgaria

[email protected]

+ 359 9857 190

Data refers to the total number of railway accidents with injured people or with material damages and the number of accidents with heavily injured or killed persons, by the type of the accident.

· Annex H from Regulation 91/2003 - Classification of the type of railway accidents;

· Classification of the main categories injured persons.

All railway accidents, involving at least one railway vehicle (train) in motion, resulting in at least one injured or killed person, damage of road vehicle, track or other equipment are included.

Glossary on Transport statistics - Geneva which provides comparability of the data at European level.

EA "Railway administration"

Total number of rail accidents during the reference period as a result of their activity.

The accidents along the railway network on Bulgarian territory are covered.

Since 2005

Not applicable.

Number

Year

· Regulation (EC) No 91/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2002 on rail transport statistics;

· Directive 2004/49/EC of the EP and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on safety on the Community's railways;

· Commission Regulation (EC) No 1192/2003 of 3 July 2003 amending Regulation (EC) No 91/2003 of the European parliament and of the council on rail transport statistics.

Not applicable.

Data are not confidential.

Data are not confidential.

Data are published according to the deadlines set in the National statistical program and the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute.

The calendar is available on the NSI website: https://www.nsi.bg/en/node/480

Data are published on the internet site of NSI and can be accessed from all users of statistical information.

Annually

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Data on railway accidents, persons killed and injured are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Domain statistics - Transport and Communications - Other annual data -Transport - Railway transport: https://www.nsi.bg/en/node/7198

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Reference Manual on Railway Transport Statistics issued by Eurostat.

Not applicable.

Logical and arithmetical control of data.

Common rules by Eurostat for data quality assessment.

Different organizations and specialized in the sector enterprises.

Not applicable.

According to the requirements of Annex H, Regulation 91/2003/EO.

According to the requirements of Annex H, Regulation 91/2003/EO.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

5 months after the reference period.

According to Regulation 91/2003/EO.

For Bulgarian territory.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Cost and Burden for the survey are defined according the National Statistical Program for each reference year.

Data revision is made when it is necessary.

According rules set by Eurostat.

EA "Railway administration"

Annual

The survey is exhaustive.

By necessity validation checks of transmitted data series are made.

Data are aggregated before publishing and dissemination.

Not applicable.

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