Nine people were killed and 59 hurt when a train hit a bus crossing a railway line in South Africa's northern province of Limpopo, police said on Monday. Superintendent Ailwei Mushavhanamadi, based in the northern Limpopo town of Thohoyandou, said some of the seriously injured were airlifted by helicopter to five different hospitals. Others were taken by ambulance. "It was terrible. The bus was upside down on the tracks. I have never seen an accident like this before," he told Reuters by telephone. The driver of the bus, who survived the accident, appeared to have ignored a stop sign and driven across the railway tracks as the freight train approached, he said. No one on the train was injured. South Africa has a poor road safety record, with accidents killing 10,000 people every year -- many involving buses or minibus taxis, relied on by most South Africans for transport. -- SP 2316 Local Time 2016 GMT
