Making travel 'safer' is a dangerous game | Simon Jenkins

The train and coach crashes in Spain and Italy may have been preventable, but we mustn't think we can make travel truly safe

Travel is dangerous. It has been since the dawn of time. Two horrific accidents in the past few days suggest that neither railways nor roads are wholly safe. A Spanish high-speed train goes too fast into a bend and 79 people die. An Italian coach crashes through a "safety" barrier and plunges off a viaduct, leaving at least 37 people dead. Our response is instinctive. Wh...