China
- December 23, 1988 - Qinghemen level crossing disaster - A local bus hit by passenger train in Shenyang, at least forty-six are killed and sixty-three are injured.
- January 17, 1989 - Huinan level crossing disaster - A local bus hit by passenger train, at least thirty-two are killed.
- January 31, 1993 - Gaotaishan level crossing disaster - A Chifeng-Dalian passenger train smash into an overcrowded bus, which killed 66 people with injured 29 in Liaoning.
- April 30, 1993 - Yingkou level crossing disaster - A passenger train smash into a bus, which killed 36 people with injured 38 in Liaoning.
- September 16, 1999 - Yibin level crossing disaster - At least twenty-five people are killed and twenty-four people are injured, when a passenger train smashed into school bus.
- December 24, 2001 - Artux level crossing disaster - At least twenty-eight people are killed and eleven people are injured, when a mini bus hit by Ürümqi–Kashi passenger train in Xinjiang Uygur.
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