Runaway train: Driver leaves for coffee, train leaves station

Apr 22, 2015 11:23 AM PHT

Agence France-Presse

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Runaway train: Driver leaves for coffee, train leaves station

The driver of the Rabat-bound train got off at Kenitra station and the train started rolling in the wrong direction before later coming to a halt on its own, a report says

RABAT, Morocco – A runaway Moroccan passenger train travelled for 1.5 kilometers (nearly a mile) without its driver who had gone for a coffee, reports said Tuesday, April 21.

Monday’s (April 20) incident happened when the driver of the Rabat-bound train got off at Kenitra station about 40 kilometers northeast of the capital, the Al-Massae daily said.

The train, with 20 people on board, started rolling in the wrong direction before later coming to a halt on its own.

Nobody on board the locomotive was hurt. The National Railways Office said an investigation was under way into the circumstances. – Rappler.com