Prasa issued with prohibition following train crash
Updated | By Nathan Daniels
The Railway Safety Regulator (RSR) has forbidden the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) to manually authorise trains.

The directive comes after a Metrorail train collided with a stationary train at the Gelenhuys station in Germiston on Tuesday leaving over 200 commuters injured.
The regulator says the directive was issued after it was found that Prasa was "operating under conditions which are a threat or might be a threat to safe railway operations".
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RSR's Madelein Williams says Prasa has now been prohibited from manually authorising its trains.
"This accident convinced the RSR that PRASA Rail does not have the means to prevent accidents from happening during degraded mode when manual authorisations are undertaken."
The United National Transport Union (UNTU) has labelled the rail agency's conduct as reckless.
#TrainCrash Paramedics are transporting injured people from the platform to be treated. pic.twitter.com/u1zOTMuVgD
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UNTU's general secretary, Steve Harris, has called for criminal charges to be brought against both the RSR and Prasa.
"According to the legal test of dolus eventualis must be applied. By allowing the trains to be manually operated, the RSR and PRASA objectively foresees the possibility that their acts might cause deaths and persisted with it regardless of the consequences."
#Geldenhuis #GeldenhuisTrainCrash #TrainCrash The scene has now been opened to forensics. All injured have been taken to hospital. pic.twitter.com/aKX4XR63e6
— Jacaranda News (@JacaNews) January 9, 2018
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