2006 Cape Town truck-train collision

2006 Cape Town truck-train collision

The 2006 Cape Town truck-train collision was an accident that occurred on November 13 2006 when a Metrorail train collided with a truck that had stalled on an uncontrolled level crossing at [http://www.travelpost.com/AF/South_Africa/Western_Cape/Faure/map/1744320 Faure] near Somerset West, a town outside Cape Town, South Africa, at approximately 08:00 local time (06:00 GMT)cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6142584.stm | title=SA train crash kills 27 farm workers| publisher=BBC | accessdate=2006-11-18] . The truck was carrying at least thirty-three workers from a local vineyard and there were nineteen fatalities (eleven men and eight women) and six injured people among the occupants of the vehicle. Original estimates had the death toll as high as twenty-seven. but this soon fell to twenty and then nineteen.cite news | url=http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=iol1163607460285B223 | title=Train crash death toll false, say police | publisher=IOL | accessdate=2006-11-18] . No passenger on board the train was injured but Metrorail reported that several suffered psychological shock. Witnesses reported seeing smoke but there was no fire.

Investigation

Police investigated a charge of culpable homicide .

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