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SEPTA

Products: n/a. Risk band: Elevated   RobotRisk index 24.2/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 73th percentile of 62 other companies.

Analyst brief

The record holds a single entry: a Norristown light rail vehicle striking a bumping post, severity 4, with NTSB findings attributing the event to automatic train control system design. This is a single crash investigated and characterized by a federal safety board, a regulator-driven record rather than a press-driven one. One entry with no prior history indicates an isolated event rather than a demonstrated pattern. Index 24.4 and the 72.6th percentile place SEPTA in the elevated band, lower within that band than peers with repeat entries.

Entries by year and severity

012025 S4: 1125
S1S2S3S4S5

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Incident log (1 unique incidents)

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S405/11
2025 · ~09:45 ET
crash Norristown, PA, USANorristown LRV strikes bumping post; NTSB faults ATC design · 1 train, 12 injured (2 serious) NBC10 Philadelphia

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