Accidents and crime cost South African railway operators almost a billion rand (R961 million) in the 2016/17 period. This was R70 million up on 2015/16.
According to the State of Safety Report released in Johannesburg on Monday by the Railway Safety Regulator (RSR) "operational occurrences" remain above 4,000 per year. Operational occurrences are accidents that "happen resulting from unsafe or system faults within railway operations". These include collisions, derailments, electric shocks, leakages and explosions, and operational train fires.
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