South Africa: 644 hurt in train crash.

[27vet]

News 24

644 hurt in Soweto train crash

Johannesburg - A total of 644 passengers were injured, two critically, when two trains collided in Meadowlands, Soweto on Thursday, Johannesburg paramedics said.

"We had a total of two men who were critically injured and airlifted to Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital, and 642 with minor and serious injuries," Netcare 911 spokesperson Jeff Wicks told Sapa from the scene.

"[The increase in total injuries] shows the chaos of the scene. We had people who were sprayed 200m around the trains...on arrival, paramedics found passengers from both trains lying on the track," he said....

[DSY011]

It was bound to happen sooner or later I'm sorry to say 27vet. The SAR is in a real mess in some parts of the country, I wonder how many passengers were hanging on to the outside of the train?

[27vet]

Not the first nor the last Syd, and I doubt will ever be the SAR that I knew.

[27vet]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13549944

South Africa driver fired over Soweto train crash

A South African train driver has been fired for causing an accident which injured more than 850 people last week.

The investigation showed that the man had been driving at 85 km/h (53 mph) in an area where the limit was 30km/h, reports say.

Many passengers were flung out the window when the speeding train ploughed into a stationary one in Soweto on Thursday evening.

No-one died but it was described as the biggest crash in recent years...