"My sister is dead," Lungi Ntuli said hours after her family stood helplessly on the bridge above the scene where a taxi collided with a train near Ballito, KwaZulu-Natal, on Monday. Her 40-year-old sister, Virginia Ntuli, was in the taxi that left the Shaka's Head bridge and veered down an embankment before colliding with an oncoming passenger train.The death toll rose to 16 yesterday morning when another person died in hospital. Fourteen people, including the driver, had been declared dead at the scene, while another had died in hospital shortly afterwards.Ntuli and her sisters had rushed to the crash scene when their sister had not returned to their Groutville home from her job as a domestic worker at the Zimbali estate. They had remained hopeful even though Virginia was "most likely" to have been in the taxi."We wanted to believe that she would return home but then my mother saw a T-shirt on one of the bodies that was being removed from the scene. It looked like my sister's favourite T-shirt," Ntuli said yesterday. "We then went to the police station and discovered that Virginia was in the taxi and had not survived," she said.KwaZulu-Natal transport department spokesman Kwanele Ncalane said it was believed that the taxi's conductor had told investigators the driver had shouted that the brakes were failing as it had plunged onto the railway line...