TOBA TEK SINGH: The motorway police has started ticketing the drivers violating the minimum speed that is 65km per hour.

Motorway M-4 Superintendent of Police Atta Muhammad Gujjar told reporters on Monday the minimum speed limit on the motorway was 65 km per hour but slower vehicles also used the motorway and often impeded the flow of traffic and caused accidents.

He added that banners have been hoisted at all interchanges to restrain slow speed vehicles from using motorways.

ACCIDENT: A woman, of Rawalpindi, died and six others were injured seriously in a head-on collision between a car and a van on Toba-Chichawatni Road on Monday.

Rescue 1122 reported the accident took place near Kamalia Sugar Mills and the car was going from motorway Rajana interchange to Chichawatni while the van was coming to Rajana from Kamalia. The deceased woman was identified as Raheela Humayun, 40.

The body was shifted to Rajana Rural Health Centre for autopsy while the six wounded were admitted to the DHQ hospital.

They included Alam Sher, 36, his wife Bakhtawar, 35, Bushra Abbas, 28, Amjad Yousaf, 27, Amer Mustafa, 30, and Irfan Shoukat, 40.

HELD: The Waryamwala (Jhang) police arrested two participants of a wedding ceremony from Mauza Qaim Bharwana who set on fire fireworks as jubilation on Monday.

According to an FIR registered under sections 285 and 286 of the PPC, complainant Sub-Inspector Muhammad Waqas said that at the wedding ceremony of Umair Ahmad, the groom’s brother Muhammad Ahmad and cousin Muhammad Naeem ran crackers and other fireworks. The police raided and arrested both suspects.

Published in Dawn, November 30th, 2021