The Spain and France accidents happened with high speed trains that were on the conventional rail part of the system.
The train in Spain was going at twice the speed limit fir that section of the track.
It was not due to privatization because both accidents were to government operators.
Like in the Asiana flight there could be a need to improve the automated systems and to provide some training for the vehicle operators.
Canada had a big train accident with a train moving oil. There is an investigation to see if there was any crime related to tampering with brakes or other systems
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