One dead, several injured in Lahore road accident

A coaster, passenger van and two bikes collided near Centre Park on Ferozepur Road in Kahna


Muhammad Shahzad October 20, 2017
Chief Traffic Police Officer Rai Ijaz Ahmad says the incident happened due to overspending. PHOTO: EXPRESS

LAHORE: One person was killed and over a dozen others injured in a road accident on Friday when a coaster, passenger van and two bikes collided near Centre Park on Ferozepur Road in Kahna, Lahore.

Speaking to The Express Tribune, Chief Traffic Police Officer Rai Ijaz Ahmad said the tragic incident took place due to over-speeding.

According to Model Town SP (operation) Syed Hasnain Haider, the person killed as a result of the accident was identified as Mukhtar while M Naveed, Jawad Naseer, Nazam, Arshad, Rafaqat, Ayub, Mansoor, Maqsood Hadayat, Amjad Ali and Muhammad Nadeem were amongst the injured.

The injured were shifted to Lahore General Hospital for medical treatment, said the police official.

Traffic accidents show no sign of slowing down

Efforts of the Lahore traffic police and Punjab government have borne no fruits as evident from the rising the number of road accidents in the provincial metropolis. A comparison of the road accidents data of 2015, 2016 and the first four months of 2017 shows zero respites in the number of casualties.

According to figures available with The Express Tribune, 123 people have been killed and 15,218 more injured in 14,965 road accidents in the first 116 days of the ongoing year. A total of 10,752 – or 70% of the total – were admitted to hospitals in an unstable condition by the Punjab Emergency Service aka Rescue 1122.

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