Nearly 300 dead in one year after being hit by trains on SA's railway tracks

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A total of 284 people were killed after being struck by trains on SA’s railway tracks in the 2018/19 financial year, transport minister Fikile Mbalula said on Tuesday.
They were among 519 people who were hit by trains between April 1 2018 and March 31 2019, with the other incidents resulting in injuries, Mbalula said.
While the numbers might seem strikingly high, Mbalula said this was significantly lower than the number of people struck on the tracks in the previous financial year.

“This is an encouraging 12% decrease when compared to the previous reporting period. This is part of a sustained improvement observed since the peaks observed during 2016/17,” he said.
Gauteng, the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal accounted for the bulk of these incidents.

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Nearly 300 dead in one year after being hit by trains on SA's railway tracks

A total of 284 people were killed after being struck by trains on SA’s railway tracks in the 2018/19 financial year, transport minister Fikile Mbalula said on Tuesday.

www.timeslive.co.za

 

[Deadmanza]

Idiots, how dumb do you have to be, to be hit by a frikken train.
Darwin at work.

 

[lowriderza]

They didn't see that one coming...

 

[ThatGuy_ZA]

I'd say it's the decrease in fatalities is the result of trains not running most of the time...

 

[TooFastTim]

Where else would you be hit by a train? In the middle of the veld?

 

[Nithan15]

The engineer engaged warp drive

 

[lowriderza]

Where else would you be hit by a train? In the middle of the veld?

They could have just said 'in SA'. I also doubt they used that to indicate it's not the other 'train'.

 

[Nithan15]

The engineers engaged stealth mode

 

[lowriderza]

The engineers engaged stealth mode

I'm imagining a steam engine in stealth mode.

Tjoeka.... Tjoeka Tjoeka... Tjoe... Ka... Ssssss.... TjOEKA! TJOEKA! *splat*

 

[hungrymamba]

Well a lot of it is suicide. There's no way you can not see or hear the massive thing coming, even the tracks make some warning sounds before the train is close by.

 

[ForceFate]

Well a lot of it is suicide. There's no way you can not see or hear the massive thing coming, even the tracks make some warning sounds before the train is close by.

Have you seen how people casually cross freeways? I presume it's the same with railway tracks.

 

[Enzo Matrix]

Suicides i would guess, or drunk as AF

 

[Polymathic]

Suicides i would guess, or drunk as AF

That and people jumping fences to sneak into stations to board the trains for free.

 

[HunterNW]

And those okes "surfing" on top, hanging on the sides for a free lift..... Surely some of them fall off.

 

[grok]

Forget sending lightning to your enemies, trains are where the real action is..

 

[dualmeister]

 

[HunterNW]

Forget sending lightning to your enemies, trains are where the real action is..

Lets see who blames whites for inventing trains killing mostly black people...

 

[ForceFate]

Lets see who blames whites for inventing trains killing mostly black people...

Cars kill more people.

 

[supersunbird]

Cars kill more people.

Cars invented by a black man (according to the below source), so all good:

C.R Patterson, Born Slave, Built Automobiles Before Henry Ford | Rasta Livewire

www.africaresource.com

 

[ForceFate]

Cars invented by a black man (according to the below source), so all good:

C.R Patterson, Born Slave, Built Automobiles Before Henry Ford | Rasta Livewire

www.africaresource.com

Main issue with the average American is that he believes Henry Ford "invented the automobile".