{"id":1392,"date":"2011-05-20T16:27:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T14:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/?p=1392"},"modified":"2011-05-20T16:27:05","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T14:27:05","slug":"rsr-investigates-soweto-train-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rsr-investigates-soweto-train-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"RSR investigates Soweto train accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pretoria &#8211; The Railway Safety Regulator (RSR) is investigating the passenger train collision which took place in Soweto yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>A team of the RSR&#8217;s inspectors were at the scene of the collision which took place at approximately 5.50 pm.<\/p>\n<p>A Metrorail train which was travelling from Mzimhlophe Station, towards Phomolong station in Orlando, collided with a stationary Soweto Business Express train.<\/p>\n<p>The collision resulted in 857 people injured. No fatalities have been reported. The injured were assisted by emergency services at the scene while others were taken to nearby hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>Commuters using the Soweto Business Express 2 will be greatly affected as the train will be out of operation until further notice. Commuters are therefore requested to make alternative arrangements. &#8211; BuaNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretoria &#8211; The Railway Safety Regulator (RSR) is investigating the passenger train collision which took place in Soweto yesterday. A team of the RSR&#8217;s inspectors were at the scene of the collision which took place at approximately 5.50 pm. A Metrorail train which was travelling from Mzimhlophe Station, towards Phomolong station in Orlando, collided with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[204,526],"class_list":{"0":"post-1392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-soweto","8":"tag-train-crash","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1394,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions\/1394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}