{"id":51485,"date":"2014-01-08T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/51485\/derailedtrain-derails-near-elandsfontein-railway-station-subheaderortwo-seriously-injured-after-train-partially-derails-2\/"},"modified":"2014-01-08T11:01:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T09:01:39","slug":"derailedtrain-derails-near-elandsfontein-railway-station-subheaderortwo-seriously-injured-after-train-partially-derails-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/01\/08\/derailedtrain-derails-near-elandsfontein-railway-station-subheaderortwo-seriously-injured-after-train-partially-derails-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Train service back to normal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the injured commuters from train 0610 which derailed on Friday near the Elandsfontein Railway Station have been discharged from hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Eleven commuters were discharged from hospital later that same day and five were still under observation and were expected to be discharged soon, except for the two commuters who were in a serious condition.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Metrorail offered its sympathy to the injured commuters and their families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSafety of all commuters and employees is taken very seriously and is our number one priority,&#8221; said Mosenngwa Mofi, CEO Prasa (Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa) Rail Operations.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe incident is regrettable and one in our view is too many.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have prioritised giving care to the commuters and employees who were on the train.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wish them a speedy recovery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cause of the accident is not known at this moment; a board of enquiry will be instituted to investigate the root cause of the incident and the circumstances around it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe estimated cost of damages is R1-million.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The affected lines were opened later on Friday, after they had been cleared.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='637e792e31fc5a514ff82f7a002282c4'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Injured passengers discharged from hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":51487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Melissa Hart","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1130,1442,2178,979,2552,2553],"class_list":["post-51485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident","tag-ekurhuleni-emergency-services","tag-elandsfontein","tag-germiston","tag-metrorail","tag-train"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["accident","ekurhuleni emergency services","Elandsfontein","germiston","metrorail","train"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}