[1] At 07:10 local time (05:10 UTC), a passenger train ran into the rear of another at Denver station.
Within Metrorail Gauteng, the accident happened on the line serving Pretoria, Kempton Park, Germiston and Johannesburg.
He tried to contact the Centralised Traffic Control Office at George Goch via radio, but the communications systems were out of service at the centre due to a power failure.
The report also notes that the power failure disabled radios, phones, and voice recording systems at the CTC office.
The CTC did have one cellular phone as a backup, but the driver of the Metro Express train was not given the number.
Apparently the investigators were only able to get answers after applying pressure to upper management of PRASA.