Train Crash: ‘Commuters were going home for dinner’
When 150 passenger were left injured after two trains collided in Booysens earlier on Friday evening (July 17), it was just a normal day, they were going home for dinner.
BOOYSENS – The sudden turn in life was even more evident when some of the passengers spoke of how all that was on their minds before disaster struck was dinner. For them it was a normal day.
According to Kyota Aubin Twitter account, “Injured commuters say they were just going home for dinner. ‘It was just a normal day’.”
https://twitter.com/KyotaAubin/status/622118849215864832
While some reacted with shock and sympathy of what had happened, others took the opportunity to take a swipe at the government, Mandy Wiener’s twitter account was a great example of this.
The tweet read, “The country’s railways. Crashes literally and figuratively today. Can’t really get worse for #Prasa.”
The country's railways. Crashes literally and figuratively today. Can't really get worse for #Prasa. #TrainCrash
— Mandy Wiener (@MandyWiener) July 17, 2015
Others replied to the tweet as follows,
@MandyWiener @ewnreporter @Abramjee 2/2 previous accidents (collisions). You can then understand that #PRASA is not serious about anything
— ©★I speak ♏y mind♣™ (@Proclus2) July 17, 2015
@MandyWiener – I wouldn't trust an organisation that feels their Chief Engineer doesn't actually need to be an Engineer ;)
— Robert Haden-Smith (@HadenRob) July 17, 2015
@MandyWiener cadre deployment bad for the country!!!!
— Thapelo🇿🇦 (@FighterThaps) July 17, 2015
