Safety Regulator probes cause of Free State train crash
The Rail Safety Regulator says it will set up a board of inquiry into last week's fatal train crash in Kroonstad in the Free State.
Nineteen people were killed when a train and a truck collided at a level crossing.
The train had been transporting passengers from Port Elizabeth to Johannesburg at the time.
The regulator is hopeful the board of inquiry will wrap up its work in three months.
Acting CEO, Tshepo Kgare says they will not rule out reports of possible overloading on the train.
"At this stage, we've actually looked at some of the documentation to try and understand what's going on. What we felt was important on our part as RSR was to try and not create speculations about things that have not been confirmed at this stage," she says.
Meanwhile, more than 200 people were hurt when 2 trains crashed at a Germiston railway station in Gauteng yesterday.