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Can lower speeds prevent crude oil train derailments?

Oil train derailment
This aerial Feb. 17, 2015 file photo photo made available by the Office of the Governor of West Virginia showed a derailed train in Mount Carbon, WVa.
Steven Wayne Rotsch | AP file

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BNSF Railway announced this week that crude oil trains traveling through the Twin Cities will slow down, no faster than 35 mph.

The safety measure comes in the wake of several high-profile derailments in the United States and Canada. BNSF hauls much of the oil produced in the Bakken region of North Dakota.

MPR News' Marianne Combs spoke to Michael Trevino, spokesperson for the BNSF, about the safety measures announced this week. Can they really prevent future derailments?