Comment by steveBK123

According to cursory search:

* Spain HSR ~45M annual journeys / 30B annual passenger-kms

* Italy HSR ~65M annual journeys / 50B annual passenger-kms

* France HSR ~150M annual journeys / 110B annual passenger-kms

"Italy’s annual high-speed rail (HSR) passenger fatality rate is effectively zero, as there has never been a passenger fatality recorded on the country’s dedicated high-speed network"

"France’s dedicated high-speed lines (LGV—Lignes à Grande Vitesse) have historically maintained an extraordinary safety record. Across several decades of commercial operation since launching in 1981, there has never been a passenger fatality resulting from a high-speed crash during commercial service on a dedicated high-speed line"

Spain by comparison has 2 fatal accidents adding up to ~100 passenger deaths this year alone. Something like 300 fatalities in its history.

This is quite bad.