Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula has instructed the Railway Safety Regulator (RSR) to prioritise its investigation into the crash involving a Transnet tamping machine carrying out railway track maintenance and a new Metrorail train at Eerste Fabrieke Station in Mamelodi in Pretoria, injuring at least 57 people, on Saturday evening. Mbalula expressed well-wishes and a speedy recovery to the injured passengers, saying he was personally saddened by the incident which was “indeed a baptism of fire” after he had only been in his new job for two days. “It is a call to act, and to act now. And that is exactly what I have done,” he said on Sunday.