POTTERS BAR TRAIN CRASH.
Read a few blog comments about this event.
Some great writer (probably Shakespear) wrote;
'but travellers must be content'.

And the nub of this pithy comment is that people that travel must expect things to happen. In his day travelling was very dangerous, and in our cosseted age we seem to forget that doing things remains dangerous.
The act of putting many people in a box, balanced on metal wheels rolling along metal rods at 100mph plus is slightly dangerous. Just about 10 people die on the roads every day, and that is looked on as an acceptable level of risk, and road deaths don't even make the news unless there are multiple or unusual deaths. So 8 dead so far this year on the railways looks very good, compared with an estimated (so many are killed each day the figures are'nt even published anywhere !) 1000 on the roads.
So railways are much safer than any other form of transport, from walking and cycling through to flying.