At least one person was killed and 10 others were injured when two passenger vans collided due to dense fog in Lakki Marwat on Wednesday. Police said the incident happened on the Indus Highway in the morning when two passenger coaches coming from the opposite directions collided due to fog. The Indus Highway was engulfed by the fog in the morning after heavy rain in the area.
One passenger van was travelling from Tajori, while other was travelling from Bannu to Dera Ismail Khan. The injured were taken to Tehsil Headquarters Hospital Naurang after the accident. The condition of three injured passengers was stated to be critical. According to Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) data, average 15 people die every day in traffic accidents across the country. The data from 2004 to 2013 showed that Sindh was deadliest in terms of average people killed in accidents, followed by Punjab, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Most of such accidents happen due to untrained drivers, reckless driving, poor condition of roads and poor maintenance of vehicles. Meanwhile, a dozer operator lost his life when the dozer went out of his control and fell over him during work at a cement factory in Nowshera on Wednesday.
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