Yep. Or the Valencia metro accident, where there is some quite convincing evidence that the authorities hid evidence and instructed employees to give a convenient version in their declarations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valencia_Metro_derailment#Subs...

Or the myriad deadly Amtrak incidents that dwarf that toll.

Unless by "dwarf" you mean "less than 10% more" and by "myriad" you mean "exactly one", I invite you to join those of us who live in the real world. You don't have to like Amtrak, but there's plenty of nonsense on the Internet without you adding to it.

> the event as a whole doesn't seem worse than Spain's derailment that happened two years later

Spanish authorities didn't tried to censor the accident, nor did they tried to bury the wreckage with corpses and human remains still mangled within the wagons.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8658959...

> in which many more were killed

Honestly, with all the censorship forced by the chinese communist party regarding the accident, how can anyone really tell?

In fact, how many accidents have occurred since then that were successfully covered up?

I'm not interested in playing the part of a Yorkshireman, and I'm certainly not about to defend the CPC. I wouldn't trade my citizenship of a Western country for any other.

All I'm saying is that your example doesn't make your case that Western governments are that much better at tackling these kinds of potential problems, or that they don't try to cover them up, often in ways that prevent the problem from being fixed.

If you want to argue that they have a train collision a month that we just don't know about, while I vehemently condemn censorship for itself, I can't accept lack of proof as proof that it happened!