RIP

It is tragic indeed but why 50 - 100 travelers don't dare to ask the driver to be careful with his speed & driving, the traffic police should also ask the passengers to report overspending to the traffic police on duty. This is how you can control the accidents...

Rest in peace !!

@Khuram Nisar weak traffic rules law no implication results in such disasters.

Safety First.

@Imran You are right Imran. a long list to be implemented: - Commerical vehicle inspection - Road safety inspection and regular upgrades - Highway Police should book the vehicles for dangerous driving

Very sad to hear about this.

Thanks to licensing authority and CM Punjab those who is spending money on Orange and metro instead of repairing the national roads...

So sad. Rest In Peace poor souls.

Give the Bus drivers proper training. Provide them with special trainung programs which is neccessary to work in this field. Ustadi Shagirdi is not a solution.

Its all about making money, squeezing as many passengers you can and trying to cut costs all the time. Even though the coach will have bold tyres the owner couldn't care less. Any coach driving dangerously or ill equipped should be put in a compound until the owner has the finance to repair it and only then should it be cleared to run again. But I cant see this happening as corruption is everywhere

Why there is no partition between two way roads ..?

The most unfortunate accident! May the departed souls rest in peace. Perhaps, our authorities should consider making it mandatory for the public transport to install 'speed governing devices' in the public transport so as to minimise such over-speeding accidents and their resulting losses.

What a great tragedy?

There is No training program for Bus and Mini Bus drivers in any province. They are authorized to kill as many people as they like. Final conclusion of police report "Only a minor mistake of driver". 1. Organize driver's training program in all province. 2. Strict on Speed limit on Buses, Mini Buses, Trucks. 3. Proper TAIL/back lights for all vehicles, especially for motor cycle. 4. Impose heavy fine for those not following. 5. Appoint honest staff in Police and traffic dept. no political reference for appointment. Invite foreign expert in police and traffic dept. all over country. Don't play with public life.

Rest in peace poor souls...??

I belongs to same city and there is transport mafia. They care about only money and put the life of dozens people in danger by even employing medically unfit drivers. Once I was travelling from Karachi to Sadiqabad and was greatly shocked to learn that bus driver was a diabetic patient. You know better which sort of fitness or active body a diabetic patient has. There are no rules and regulations when it comes to transport mafia. They used to loot the public on special occasions like eid, etc. They escape NHA check post by due to strong personal relationship.

very sad, RIP

I am totally not surprised as when driving a car near a loaded bus, one gets a sense of aggressiveness from the drivers! I hope these accidents don't re-occur.

If These Pictures are from this incident I can see the Power International Bus , Man these drivers are maniacs , They Drive the bus like it is a Formula 1 race. Absolute no regard of speed limits and overtaking like totally nut cases . it is horrifying to see or travel with these kind of drivers..

It is always the drivers at fault because no passenger dare to tell them to slow down. Rules should be made tough for drivers to speed.

@Imran; weak traffic rules?! The only traffic rule is to keep money ready for the police.

@mohsin, you hit the problem on the head, but no one is going to talk about it because it brings the highway dept. and the govt. into focus. So they keep the focus on the driver.

the main cause of accident is there is no follow rules of law and except few drivers all over drivers are uneducated and mostly peoples are in the covetousness they shall loss/injury of accident shape.

Bus and truck drivers need to be limited on hours of driving and a strict safety checks on vehicles is needed.

Really very sad news for the whole nation. I have few questions from the ministry of transportation or police. Will you check " investigate " and share to public, about Bus drivers licences history, vehicle's safety reports. I am confident there are so many road accidents , which is preventable. Government must implement the by- laws. We can safe lots of lives.

@Ahmed bin Babar Correct, in developed countries here they put big digital speed meter in public transports showing the speed and put a red sign under it, this vehicle is allowed to run max of 80 kmph, so passengers can see and in case of overspeed they can lodge complain against the driver.

Poor road infra structure is cause of such accident. Honestly we are living in a dustbin.

I have read out different thoughts of respected people, which seems decent. I want to mention that these drivers and conductors are actual culprits and they even not pay respect to passengers. If passengers dare to resist them they use unethical tactics. For example you are a citizen of Bahawal Pur and you have reserved a seat on bus for Lahore, they will treat you as they have given you seat as free of cost. When you will ask them about anything which is wrong on their side, they will use threatening comments against you. They are local of this area and are having strong relation with "Adda-Mafia" starting from Karachi-Sadiqabad-Lahore (same buses goes to Bahawal Pur), when they will set you out at Sadiqabad, you will be helpless at night time to find a bus for Bahawal Pur. If passengers as a team resist driver then they can compel him to follow the rules and specially adherence of speed. In sadiqabad, mostly accidents happened by Manthar Coaches on Sadiqabad-Faisalabad route.

@Abbasi Tribune .. Come on.... Diabetes is not a reason not to allow the driver to drive unless its a brittle diabetes and with poor control or with history of hypoglycemic ( low sugar ) episodes. Making diabetes the criteria will make lot of drivers unfit unnecessarily. There is no such restrictions in advanced countries. On the other hand patients with seizure disorder should not be allowed to drive unless no seizures for 6 months on medications.