This accident , following the Jokela rail accident two years before , showed the importance of the automatic train control system , which could have prevented both of them . At Jyväskylä , the system would have first warned the driver , then braked automatically before the switch , slowing the train to a safe speed . Deployment of the system had started in 1995 , and it was hurried in the aftermath of the accidents
Jokela rail accident
Jokela rail accident
Jyväskylä rail accident