[Lugia]

Originally Posted by usama007 ↗

(South) African journalism ethics sure as hell differs from what I am used to where I live. No news journalist would interview a grieving mother in that state so close after the tragedy.

That's pretty standard worldwide.

[SeteDiSangue]

Originally Posted by b0g ↗

Black Xmas?

That interview was brutal. The older woman glaring at the reporter gets it. Like damn the woman’s kids died yesterday and she has to sit there and listen to a reporter talk about “she has to live with this devastation” Heartless

[macbobson]

holy cow, video #4 and #5 are insane, this should be a sticky.

[b0g]

court decided not to charge the truck driver today

• the former truck driver of this truck was laid out in september
• the former driver had lpg training and certs, but he doubts that the noobie got them
• it could be the case that the controller was not in office
• former driver had some years exp. driving oil trucks

[Orcustus]

My man was reversing faster than French tanks in 1940

[kellyhound]

Originally Posted by macbobson ↗

holy cow, video #4 and #5 are insane, this should be a sticky.

Added another vid to the OP
Death toll also increased since than.

The Boksburg explosion took place on 24 December 2022, when a fuel tanker carrying liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) exploded underneath a railway bridge in Boksburg, in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa,with a death toll of 41 people as of 18 January 2023. The nearby Tambo Memorial Hospital was also damaged.


The truck belonged to Infinite Transport, part of the Sasolburg-based Infinite Group, and was carrying 60 000 litres (15 850 gal) of LPG from the Port of Richards Bay to Botswana. The driver was employed by Innovative Staffing Solutions (ISS), a Boksburg-based outsourcing company that provides staff on contract to other companies.

According to his employer, on the morning of 24 December 2022, having spent the night at a nearby truck stop, the 32 year-old driver allegedly took the wrong exit[clarification needed] onto the N17 freeway.

According to the report of an internal investigation by ISS, he quickly realised his mistake and tried to exit the freeway[clarification needed] to return to his route; the freeway exit he used directed him under a railway bridge spanning Hospital Street near its intersection with Railway Street, about 100 metres (328 ft) from the Tambo Memorial Hospital in the Boksburg suburb of Plantation.

[Johnthejedi24]

There’s mention of a “viral video” of the aftermath that a victims father is complaining about…which video is it?
https://ewn.co.za/2022/12/27/boksbur...on-burning/amp

[Ianforheisman]

Originally Posted by bliss ↗

This is some of the best aftermath footage I've seen

Those people were still alive on ground.

Agreed.. I’m sure almost everyone moving in that video is dead now.