A quick-thinking train driver narrowly avoided a major "catastrophe" after a motorist allegedly put his car in the wrong gear - and drove onto railway tracks.<br /><br />It is believed the motorist selected a forward gear while trying to reverse out of a parking space and lurched onto the tracks.<br /><br />Video shows the vehicle stationary in the train's path in Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium.<br /><br />Train conductor Aytam El Ghandour, 33, was on the service between Antwerp and Brussels, when the car crashed onto the tracks.<br /><br />Aytam said the train driver had to slam on the brakes to avoid hitting the vehicle.<br /><br />There were no injuries and all the passengers were evacuated and transferred to another train line. <br /><br />Trains were stationary for more than two hours while the car was removed from the tracks and safety checks were performed. <br /><br />Aytam, from Brussels, said: "People get onto the tracks quite often, but I've never seen a car do this. <br /><br />"The driver stopped immediately and we had to get everybody off the train. I'm very proud of the driver it could have been a catastrophe."<br /><br />According to Aytam said the car had been parked in a car park near the platform and the driver accidentally put his car in first gear. <br /><br />Aytam said: "The car was driven by a middle-aged man. No one knew whether he had been drinking.<br /><br />"Local media said he was sick, which is why he crashed. The police's theory was that he tried to reverse, but put the car in first gear instead.<br /><br />"After two hours of evacuating the passengers I had to leave, the car was still there when I did, and no trains had moved."<br /><br />The incident happened December 8.
