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The dead are not the passengers / Agency

Valley Metro

Regional Public Transportation Authority, dba: Valley Metro · Phoenix, AZ · NTD ID 90136

Valley Metro reported 250 major safety and security events across 2014-2026, in which 9 people died. Against the service it actually delivered, that is 1.66 events per million vehicle revenue miles - worse than 24 of the 108 agencies big enough to rank, and 1.94x better than the national rate.

Full
Events per million miles
1.66
#84 of 108 agencies · national 3.21 · median 2.88
Events, all years
250
#73 nationally by raw count · 2014-2026
People killed
9
138 injured, 0 seriously
Service driven
62M
vehicle revenue miles, 2022-2024 · 102 events in that window
Its rate on a scale ending at the worst agency in the country (New Orleans Regional Transit Authority, 12.54). The tick is the national rate (3.21).
Who died on this system
  • People on the road 7
  • People on the right-of-way 2

Mutually exclusive victim classes, summing to 9. Trespasser deaths are an overlay on these, not an extra row.

Its events, by year

2014: 1 → 2025: 51 · peak 51

2026 excluded - it is a partial year.

Assaults on its workers
2014: 0 worker assault events 2015: 0 worker assault events 2016: 0 worker assault events 2017: 0 worker assault events 2018: 0 worker assault events 2019: 0 worker assault events 2020: 1 worker assault events 2021: 1 worker assault events 2022: 1 worker assault events 2023: 0 worker assault events (after the reporting change) 2024: 0 worker assault events (after the reporting change) 2025: 0 worker assault events (after the reporting change)

5 total · peak 1 in a year

The dashed line is the 2023 FTA reporting change. Bars after it are better captured, so the step up across that line is partly a change in counting, not only a change in the world.

What it runs
  • Fixed-Route Bus 237
  • Other Non-Rail 13

Share of its events by mode. Mode mix moves a rate: street-running light rail generates several times the events per mile that suburban bus does, so read this beside the rate above.