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% contributions to Gross Value Added, 2010

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Most affected subjects
Non-European languages -22%
Technologies -18%
Sciences with social sciences/arts -18%

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Physical sciences -0.6%
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Network Rail pleaded guilty to safety breaches over the deaths of two girls at a level crossing in Essex in 2005, three days after another girl was killed on the same stretch of line. How did people come to grief on the railways in 2010/11?

Suicide 208
Trespass 27
Slipping/running into train at station 7
Killed at level crossing 4
Rail workers killed on line 1
Assault 1
Train accidents 0
Source: Office of the Rail Regulator