LISTEN: Shaka's Head crash 'the worst ever' for medics

Emergency services spent more than five hours on the scene helping authorities recover bodies from the wreckage. 

15 people lost their lives when the taxi they were travelling in left the N2 freeway and landed on an adjacent railway line yesterday afternoon. 

View photos from the scene yesterday by clicking here.

The vehicle was then struck by a passenger train.

IPSS Medical Rescue's Paul Herbst says emergency services could never prepare themselves for the carnage they witnessed yesterday.

Listen to him below:

Herbst says many paramedics were emotional.

''Normally the paramedics just hand over patients at hospitals and then that's the end of it. unfortunately with this one, your adrenalin is completely run out and reality sets in and it becomes so real as you start picking up human remains off the crash and that's when it gets to them,'' he added.

(Photo: Netcare 911)