On 10 May, a Transnet Freight Rail train ran into a four-seater Cessna plane that crash-landed near Michaelhouse school at Balgowan in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands while attempting an emergency landing...
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Official statement by Railway Safety Regulator (RSR):
This incident took place at the subway between platforms 7 and 8 at around 07:20 on 10 May.
The preliminary RSR information is that:
' A...
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According to an 11 May account in the newspaper Beeld, the Railway Safety Regulator (RSR) has released its findings into the 21 April 2010 runaway from Centurion and subsequent derailment on the...
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On 29 April, a woman and her daughter apparently jumped from a moving Metrorail commuter train at Compensation station near Ballito on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast. The elder woman was killed while...
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In 21 April, a bus collided with a National Railways of Zimbabwe goods train near Kadoma, killing one person and injuring 28, some seriously. According to witnesses quoted by the Bulawayo Chronicle,...
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Following a short break in the mindless acts of railway vandalism near Cape Town which persisted almost unabated since November 2011, more interruption to the Khayelitsha service occurred on the...
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To date this year, three people have died under trains on the main line out of Luanda, capital of Angola, apparently due to carelessly walking on the track. Caminhos de ferro de Luanda (CFL) and the...
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During February, a 15-year-old girl was thrown from a moving Metrorail suburban train at Lentegeur station in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town, Police found her lying at the side of the line with multiple...
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From a Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) Bulletin: 'TFR officials from Polokwane depot went to hot spots level crossing areas on 27 March 2012 in order to sensitise motorists about the dangers of not...
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According to Buanews, published by the South African government information service, a Transnet Freight Rail campaign to warn motorists and pedestrians about the dangers of not observing safety...
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