Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula has instructed the Railway Safety Regulator to prioritise its investigation into the crash involving a Transnet tamping machine carrying out railway track maintenance and a new Metrorail train at Eerste Fabrieke Station in Mamelodi in Pretoria, injuring at least 57 people on Saturday evening.
“I have instructed the Railway Safety Regulator to prioritise its investigation of this collision. Once the investigation is done, we will report back to the victims and to the nation in due course. We will also outline steps that will be taken to deal with the cause of this collision. It cannot be that our rail network is taking the same path similar to the crashes on our roads.”
He had also instructed the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa to submit an urgent report regarding the incident, and to provide support to the injured and their families, Mbalula said. The tamping machine “rolled from Greenview back to Eerste Fabrieke Station where the Metrorail train was stationery and carrying commuters on board” at about 6.25pm, Metrorail said in a statement.
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They have established ,after intensive investigation ,that this accident was caused by 2 Trains being on the SAME tracks...
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