Fencing and railway suicide prevention in Australia

A 2019 article shows that: (i) fencing appears to lead to a reduction in some types of rail suicides and thus; (ii) contributes to a lower overall rate of suicide by train; and (iii) even with fencing, the non-jumping incidents warrant attention for appropriate countermeasures.

Read the full article on Patterns of pre-crash behaviour in railway suicides and the effect of corridor fencing: a natural experiment in New South Wales (mettre lien https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17457300.2019.1660376?casa_token=XhOv_8Kt9ZMAAAAA%3AMwJ2G9OyXnSmwBpMFAwosobfJ4YIpGIe2H3SMNBJg54_j3vNbCpOPBea-sBbgEdhetgOt7gaziUP)

Reference: Shirley Gregor, Gary Beavan, Adrian Culbert, Priscilla Kan John, Nguyen Viet Ngo, Byron Keating, Ruonan Sun & Ibrahim Radwan (2019) Patterns of pre-crash behaviour in railway suicides and the effect of corridor fencing: a natural experiment in New South Wales, International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion, 26:4, 423-430, DOI: 10.1080/17457300.2019.1660376