New Delhi CNN —A runaway freight train in northern India traveled nearly 45 miles without a driver on Sunday, reaching speeds of up to 46 miles per hour, before it was brought to a stop, according to railway officials. No one was injured by the runaway train and it was eventually stopped using emergency brakes and by placing stones on the track, preventing a major accident. In April 2018, a runaway train carrying up to 1,000 passengers rolled for several miles before being brought to an emergency stop. None of the estimated 1,000 passengers was injured in the incident and the train reached its final destination two hours behind schedule. Today, it runs about 11,000 trains every day over 67,000 miles of tracks in the world’s most populous nation.

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Persons: New Delhi CNN —, Prateek Srivastava, “, ”, Srivastava Organizations: New, New Delhi CNN, Ministry of Railways, CNN Locations: New Delhi, India, Kathua, Jammu, Kashmir, Hoshiarpur district, Punjab, Gujarat, Odisha