There were fewer accidents on the railways during the 2020/21 financial year but this should not be cause for celebration, deputy transport minister Sindisiwe Chikunga said on Wednesday.
She said 10,076 negative events were reported during the 2020/21 reporting period, with 2,024 relating to operational occurrences and 8,052 attributed to security-related incidents.
Chikunga said there was a 15% decrease in total train derailment and 13% decrease in level crossing occurrences in 2020/21 when compared to the previous year.There were fewer operational occurrences and security-related incidents on the railways during the 2020/21 financial year compared to 2019/20.“Even though collisions and derailments depict a year-on-year decrease, when you consider the normalised figures which take into consideration the train kilometres, this shows an increase.
RSR chairperson Johannes Nobunga said when the lockdown was imposed early last year, there was a significant increase in security-related vandalism and theft of rail infrastructure.
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