Pretoria train crash costs Metrorail R18 million
By Lelethu Mquqo
10 April 2011
Metrorail says the cost of Friday's fatal train collision in the Tshwane Metro amounts to R18 million.
Metrorail's Gauteng manager, Tembela Kulu, says the wreckage from the accident has now been cleared from the railway line, and trains are running as normal on the route.
Kulu has extended the company's condolences to the family of Anna Maseko, who was killed in the accident.
She was driving one of the two trains that collided in Rosslyn on the line between Mabopane and Pretoria.
Most of the 266 passengers have been treated in hospital and discharged.
The cause of the accident is still unknown.
10 April 2011
Metrorail says the cost of Friday's fatal train collision in the Tshwane Metro amounts to R18 million.
Metrorail's Gauteng manager, Tembela Kulu, says the wreckage from the accident has now been cleared from the railway line, and trains are running as normal on the route.
Kulu has extended the company's condolences to the family of Anna Maseko, who was killed in the accident.
She was driving one of the two trains that collided in Rosslyn on the line between Mabopane and Pretoria.
Most of the 266 passengers have been treated in hospital and discharged.
The cause of the accident is still unknown.
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