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Escalators may be safer than you think

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Statistically speaking, the everyday escalator is the safest mode of mechanized transportation on the planet. Your chances of suffering a fatal accident while riding an escalator are incredibly near zero, drastically safer than cars, trains, airplanes, and even modern enclosed elevators.

Escalators may be safer than you think
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