Spain
- December 21, 1978 - Monoz level crossing disaster - A bus carrying school children hit by passenger train, at least twenty-seven people are killed and thirty-seven people are injured.
- September 24, 1980 - Vara de Quart level crossing disaster - A Valencia-Madrid express train smash into a local bus in Valencian Community, which killed 25 and injured 28 people.
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