Misery Averted: Train runs into tractor-trolley

Following the accident, the Lahore-bound Night Coach from Karachi was stopped at Faisalabad station.

FAISALABAD: The Pakistan Express derailed on Friday after colliding with a tractor-trolley on an unmanned railway crossing here. The train hit the trolley near the dry port railway crossing. Some of the passengers jumped off the train before the impact. The trolley and the train engine were destroyed. Following the accident, the Lahore-bound Night Coach from Karachi was stopped at Faisalabad and the Millat Express at the Chak Jhumra railway station. Police have arrested the trolley driver who told them that his tractor engine had stopped in the middle of the railway crossing.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 13^th, 2013.