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25 May 2011<\/span> Last updated at<\/span> 11:11 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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Many of the injured were treated at the scene<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

A South African train driver has been fired for causing an accident which injured more than 850 people last week.<\/p>\n

The investigation showed that the man had been driving at 85 km\/h (53 mph) in an area where the limit was 30km\/h, reports say.<\/p>\n

Many passengers were flung out the window when the speeding train ploughed into a stationary one in Soweto on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n

No-one died but it was described as the biggest crash in recent years.<\/p>\n

Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) spokeswoman Nana Zenani said although the driver has slowed down before impact, it did little to help the passengers.<\/p>\n

“At the point of impact he had already decelerated as much as he could, to around 33 kilometres, but the point is when you’re driving a train, you’re then working on velocity,” she said, AFP news agency reports.<\/p>\n

“He shouldn’t have been doing 85 in a 30 zone to begin with.”<\/p>\n

Prasa said no criminal charges would be filed against the driver.<\/p>\n

Prasa also said in a statement it had established a 20 million rand ($2.8m; \u00a31.7m) fund to compensate victims of the Soweto accident and another crash last month in Pretoria that killed a train driver and left some 200 people injured.<\/p>\n

More than two million passengers travel daily on South Africa’s commuter trains.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

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