ROVOS RAIL CRASH

I heard it too!!!

Waiting for the SA media to get over the village idiot the puppet or ET might take time.. :(

We will have to wait and see.
 
There has been a massive train accident in Pretoria involving a luxury passenger train.


At least 15 people have been seriously injured and there are reports of deaths.


It is believed the Rovos rail train derailed shortly after leaving Bosman Station in the capital.


Paramedics are trying to free trapped passengers.


Netcare 911’s Chris Botha said at least 55 people were on board at the time of the accident.


“At the moment I’m standing at the wreckage. There’s absolute carnage on the scene. The Pride of Africa train has derailed. Some of the coaches are lying on top of each other, “ said one bystander.


“Paramedics, firemen from all services, Metrorail, everybody is busy at the moment combing through the wreckage,” he added.


At least nine carriages may have been involved.


Tshwane Emergency Service’s Johan Pieterse said, “There’s still a few patients still trapped inside the coaches so the fire brigade personnel are attending to all those trapped and it’s a search and rescue at the moment.”
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http://www.ewn.co.za/articleprog.aspx?id=37720
 
The entire train derailed. Either a really small train or one helluva cock up somewhere along the line - excuse the pun...
 
Its a really small train, when we went a couple of years ago it was only about 9 carriages.
Eish.. not to disregard loss of human life, but those carriages themselves where antiques.... :(
 
OUCH friend of mine came back last week on the train after honeymoon ... @Madman88 yeah it was a very old train...
 
ROVOS RAIL CHRASH

My husband were at the scene 5 min after the crash, we are currently refurbishing the Blue train at the station ... This is a terrible accident, he took photos before anyone else was on the scene, we had the camera for the final decor pic's to be taken of the Blue train, handy i woiuld say, for such an event on the same day...The speculations is as follows...the train stop at centurion station to switch locomotives, they didn't "attached" it properly...the brakes as well...slowly the couches moved away....the roete from centurion is downhill towards pretoria /bosman street station, the trains normal maximum speed is between 40/50km ph. The train travelled between 120/140km..people driving on the highway saw the train speeding past them.....i will put pic's on this wall, when my husband arrives home toninght..:cry:
 
kristellevorster said:
My husband were at the scene 5 min after the crash, we are currently refurbishing the Blue train at the station ... This is a terrible accident, he took photos before anyone else was on the scene, we had the camera for the final decor pic's to be taken of the Blue train, handy i woiuld say, for such an event on the same day...The speculations is as follows...the train stop at centurion station to switch locomotives, they didn't "attached" it properly...the brakes as well...slowly the couches moved away....the roete from centurion is downhill towards pretoria /bosman street station, the trains normal maximum speed is between 40/50km ph. The train travelled between 120/140km..people driving on the highway saw the train speeding past them.....i will put pic's on this wall, when my husband arrives home toninght..:cry:
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This is sooo sad :cry:
 
News24 article mentions that the baby survived or do I have it wrong... shame man hectic
 
Pffft... What about the major rail collision in France, Germany, America and India in recent times?

So it's TIF, TIG TIA and TII as well?
 
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