A woman was airlifted three hours after being trapped in the aftermath of a deadly train collision at Johannesburg’s Denver station this morning.
Paramedics and rescue services freed the woman who was wedged between a wall and one of the trains involved in the accident.
ER24 spokesman Russell Meiring said she had sustained soft tissue injuries.
ER24 earlier reported that one person – said to be the driver of one of the trains — had lost their life‚ while at least 80 injured people were being attended to on scene. Other reports said the fatality was not a train driver‚ but a security guard — this could not be immediately confirmed.
Mosenngwa Mofi‚ the CEO of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa‚ told journalists that one train slammed into a stationary train. Both had been travelling from Pretoria.
He said a total of 92 people had been injured of the 910 on board both trains. Eighty of these had been discharged from hospital.
Mofi said that he hoped operations would be back to normal by late afternoon.
He added that a technical team was at the station to try establish the cause of the accident.
Earlier‚ RDM News Wire reported that‚ according to posts of social media‚ one of the trains involved was a Business Express train travelling from Pretoria to Johannesburg.
Shaun Molokwane (?@ShaunMMS) tweeted: “Johannesburg #TrainCrash: was in the Business Express train that crashed into the back of another at #Denverstation. Not hurt‚ thanks God”.
ER24 reported that when its paramedics arrived at the station‚ they “found the wrecked trains blocking the tracks completely. Bent metal and parts of the train had been spread across the scene”.
According to ER24‚ patients with lesser injuries were “moved to a nearby platform where they were triaged and treated”.
Rail commuters at Denver were seen seeking bus and taxi transport as the train collision is believed to have knocked out the power supply to the station.
One dead‚ 90 injured in Denver train collision
Paramedics and rescue services freed the woman who was wedged between a wall and one of the trains involved in the accident.
ER24 spokesman Russell Meiring said she had sustained soft tissue injuries.
ER24 earlier reported that one person – said to be the driver of one of the trains — had lost their life‚ while at least 80 injured people were being attended to on scene. Other reports said the fatality was not a train driver‚ but a security guard — this could not be immediately confirmed.
Mosenngwa Mofi‚ the CEO of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa‚ told journalists that one train slammed into a stationary train. Both had been travelling from Pretoria.
He said a total of 92 people had been injured of the 910 on board both trains. Eighty of these had been discharged from hospital.
Mofi said that he hoped operations would be back to normal by late afternoon.
He added that a technical team was at the station to try establish the cause of the accident.
Earlier‚ RDM News Wire reported that‚ according to posts of social media‚ one of the trains involved was a Business Express train travelling from Pretoria to Johannesburg.
Shaun Molokwane (?@ShaunMMS) tweeted: “Johannesburg #TrainCrash: was in the Business Express train that crashed into the back of another at #Denverstation. Not hurt‚ thanks God”.
ER24 reported that when its paramedics arrived at the station‚ they “found the wrecked trains blocking the tracks completely. Bent metal and parts of the train had been spread across the scene”.
According to ER24‚ patients with lesser injuries were “moved to a nearby platform where they were triaged and treated”.
Rail commuters at Denver were seen seeking bus and taxi transport as the train collision is believed to have knocked out the power supply to the station.
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