If you've ever used public transport, you may be a little confused as to why trains are one of the only vehicles (looking at you, too, buses) that don't have seatbelts. Cars have seatbelts, planes have seatbelts, so why not trains? The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

There are a few reasons, and not all of them are obvious. To start with, fitting seatbelts in trains would be an expensive endeavor, and train accidents (though sometimes devastating) are a rarity.

"Work by the European Commission dating from 2019 suggested that the risk of death for a train passenger within the EU is around 0.09 fatalities per billion train kilometres," the Railway Safety Council explains , "nearly one third that for bus and coach passenger

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