Which is safer in the event of a crash - forward-facing or rear-facing train seats?
Assuming you're on a train which crashes, are there statistics about which is a safer seat: facing forwards, or facing backwards?
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I think what you're are looking for is an analysis similar to the one published by Vocativ, so if one looks at the analysis and one of the underlying studies published by Robert Thomas Anderson at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign the safest cars would be 1-2 from the back with seats in the aisle in the front of those cars facing to the rear where 2 rows of seats face each other.
One caveat to that is of course the car you're riding has the same layout and you can actually take riding backwards (some people I know can't).
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