At least 250 injured in train accident
The trains were travelling in the same direction
The number of people injured in the train accident between Booysens and Crown Mines at 6pm on Friday evening has been confirmed at 250.
No-one was killed and no critical injuries were reported.
The two trains involved in the accident were travelling on the same line, in the same direction, when they collided, Metrorail said.
While the company has confirmed that the train crash was a rear-end collision officials are investigating the circumstances leading up to the accident.
Emergency services spent the night treating injured commuters working for over three hours to rescue some who were trapped from inside the trains.
Netcare 911 spokeswoman Santi Steinmann said on Saturday that the confirmed number of injured passengers transported from the crash scene on Friday night by paramedics to hospital was 250.
She said there may have been some that were transported privately or treated at the scene which could cause the injury toll to still increase.
She said that she doubted very much that it would exceed 300 injured.
