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2006 Cape Town truck-train collision
The 2006 Cape Town truck-train collision was an accident that occurred on November 13 2006 when a Metrorail train collided with a truck that had stalled on an uncontrolled level crossing at Faure near Somerset West, a town outside Cape Town, South Africa, at approximately 08:00 local time (06:00 GMT). The truck was carrying at least thirty-three workers from a local vineyard, with nineteen fatalities (eleven men and eight women) and six injured people among the occupants of the truck.
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