I didn't realise Germans also love to die on train tracks like us
🚆 People killed on EU railways, 2015–2024
1. 🇵🇱 Poland: 1,703
2. 🇩🇪 Germany: 1,363
3. 🇭🇺 Hungary: 738
4. 🇷🇴 Romania: 736
5. 🇫🇷 France: 630
6. 🇮🇹 Italy: 594
7. 🇸🇰 Slovakia: 320
8. 🇨🇿 Czechia: 301
9. 🇵🇹 Portugal: 209
10. 🇪🇸 Spain: 204
11. 🇦🇹 Austria: 187
12. 🇧🇬 Bulgaria: 175
13. 🇬🇷 Greece: 155
14. 🇧🇪 Belgium: 143
15. 🇭🇷 Croatia: 127
16. 🇸🇪 Sweden: 127
17. 🇳🇱 Netherlands: 113
18. 🇱🇻 Latvia: 98
19. 🇱🇹 Lithuania: 95
20. 🇩🇰 Denmark: 70
21. 🇫🇮 Finland: 61
22. 🇸🇮 Slovenia: 32
23. 🇪🇪 Estonia: 24
24. 🇮🇪 Ireland: 12
25. 🇱🇺 Luxembourg: 7
Source: Eurostat, data from the European Union Agency for Railways
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Important context: in case of Poland, only two people in this time period were onboard the trains. Remaining 1701 were killed in the cars that drove onto the crossings.
gov.pl/web/mswia/rapo… (all reports)
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Yeah Perseus defeats Medusa by observing her reflection, seems silly. There exists a snake-related creature in European folklore that had a petrifying gaze and could kill itself with a mirror but that was Basilisk and idk if it's known enough for people to conflate the two

































