Train companies are putting the lives of passengers at risk unnecessarily because they are refusing to fit laminated safety glass on their older trains (link below.)
http://www.rmtbristol.org.uk/2007/10/rail_passengers_lives_put_in_d.html#more

A report by the Rail Safety & Standards Board shows that most of the people killed in the two most recent rail crashes died as a result of being thrown through breakable windows. The windows are found on almost half of Britain’s trains.

Laminated glass would cost only £125 per window but train companies are trying to delay making the change as long as possible in order to save money.

Under the industry’s current plan , passengers will continue to travel for at least the next 15 years in trains from which they have a greater risk of being thrown out and killed.

In crashes at Potters Bar in Hertfordshire in 2002 and Ufton Nervet in Berkshire in 2004 , 15 people were thrown out of breakable windows. Eight of those died.

In the 95mph crash at Grayrigg in Cumbria in February , the windows of the Virgin train were laminated , preventing anyone from being thrown out despite several of the carriages rolling over. Only one person – an 84-year-old woman – died later in hospital.

Under an industry safety standard , all trains built since 1993 have had to have laminated glass. But the standard does not apply to older trains.