Terry Spencer

Associated Press

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Richard Branson, of Virgin Group, prepares to unfurl a banner during a naming ceremony for the Brightline train station.

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Brightline partnered with an internationally recognizable name for a small, undisclosed investment — but the money never came.

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In this Aug 25, 2019 file photo, Broward Sheriff's Deputies and Pompano Beach Fire Rescue work the scene of a fatal accident on North Dixie Highway in Pompano Beach, Fla. The Florida higher-speed passenger train service tied to Richard Branson’s Virgin Group has the worst per-mile death rate in the U.S. The first death involving a Brightline train happened in July 2017 during test runs. An Associated Press analysis of Federal Railroad Administration data shows that since then, 40 more have been killed. That amounts to a rate of more than one a month and about one for every 29,000 miles (47,000 kilometers) the trains have traveled since the first death.

High-Speed Train Has Killed 41

The majority have been suicides, while most others involved impatient motorists, pedestrians or bicyclists who misjudged the trains’ speed.

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