Faure level crossing accident
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Faure level crossing accident
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The Faure level crossing accident was a truck-train collision near Cape Town, South Africa that caused 19 deaths. It occurred at approximately 8 a.m. on 13 November 2006 when a Metrorail train collided with a truck that had stalled on an uncontrolled level crossing at Faure near Somerset West. The truck was carrying at least 33 workers from a local vineyard and there were 19 fatalities and six other injured people among the occupants of the vehicle. Original estimates had the death toll as high
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2024-04-04T19:23:57Z
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