Runaway train in Morocco as driver goes for coffee

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

Monday’s 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.