Minivan, bus and road accidents

[HHTel]

As usual, the translation is not good. However, it does appear that there were 'multiple deaths', one of them being the pick-up driver. I guess speed along with the usual bad driving caused this horrendous 'accident'.

[PeteC]

At 4:30 pm on 2 February 63, Pol. Col. Anusorn and Muslims, the officers of Pranburi police station, Prachuap Khiri Khan Was informed that a tour bus collided with a pickup truck, with multiple fatalities and injuries. In the area of ​​Petchkasem Road Between the 233-234 kilometer front of Khao Din Temple, Village No. 7, Wang Phong Subdistrict, Pranburi District The incident along with the Sawang Pheeng Phaisan Dhammasathan Foundation Found an air-conditioned bus transport company Transport (Transport Company Ltd.) running between Bangkok - Phuket. Registration number 16-0299, Bangkok. The side number of KKU / 949-1429. Collision with Isuzu pickup truck, black half. Registration number Bor 3852 hit Prajuab so badly that the tour bus broke down on the side of the road. The condition in front of both vehicles is damaged. Inside the pickup truck in the driver's seat, found the body of Mr. Somporn Pho-Ngam, 31, the Pranburi district death. The tour bus knew the name of the driver, Mr. Kijja Kanta, 53 years old, people of Kanchanaburi province, was seriously injured, was copied and attached to the seat. Officials must use a shearing machine to remove the car from the wreckage and send to the hospital. And resistant to the wound, unable to die, died later, a total of 2 bodies and 3 passengers were injured, but the symptoms were safe.

Investigated that before the incident, the tour bus carrying a total of 42 passengers traveling from Phuket province heading to Bangkok. At the scene is a 2-lane road, traffic cars running counter to each other. The tour bus is expected to overtake the car in front, but not at the same pace as the pickup truck, driving at high speed in front of Pranburi District. Resulting in the deaths and injuries mentioned However, the police have accelerated to find the exact cause again.

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[HHTel]

That's the same translation I saw. I'm guessing that 2 people died (multiple deaths). I'm sure there'll be an English report at some point, .... or maybe not.

[Nereus]

One killed in Samut Prakan pile-up

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... an-pile-up

SAMUT PRAKAN: A man was killed in a five-vehicle pile-up at a U-turn in Bang Saothong district which caused a three-hour traffic jam on Monday morning, police said.

Pol Capt Prasit Kanchanasorn, of Bang Saothong police station, said the accident occurred about 5.30am near kilometre marker 23 on Thepparat road. A truck crashed into the rear of a row of vehicles waiting to make a U-turn.

Five vehicles were involved - a four-wheel white Hino truck which hit a black Toyota pickup, driving it forward into a bus taking people to work, another pickup and a sedan.

The black pickup was crushed. Rescuers from the Ruam Katanyu Foundation cut the wreckage open to recover the body of the driver, Jirawut Chungchot, 58.

Hansa Sorndech, 41, the truck driver, said he had left Samut Prakan about 8pm, driven his loaded vehicle to Chachoengsao, and was returning to Samut Prakan without taking a rest.

He dozed off and ran into a line of vehicles waiting to make a U-turn.

Mr Hansa was charged with reckless driving causing death and damage to property.

The pile-up caused a three-hour traffic jam.

A Ruam Katanyu Foundation rescuer looks into the wreckage of the pickup truck crushed in a pile-up on Thepparat road in Samut Prakan on Monday morning. The driver was killed. (Photo by Sutthiwit Chayutworakan)

[Nereus]

One student killed, 11 injured in van accident

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... n-accident

KANCHANABURI: A female student was killed and 11 others injured after a van overturned in Muang district on Sunday morning, police said.

The accident occurred at about 7.30am on Highway 323 (Kanchanaburi-Sai Yok) near an intersection at Ban Lat Thong in tambon Nong Bua.

Pakorn Pisetpongsa, 33, the van driver, told police that he was taking the students from Thong Pha Phum district to the Kanchanaburi Technology and Business Administration College in Tha Muang district. The van departed from Thong Pha Phum at 5am.

While nearing the intersection at Ban Lat Thong, he lost control of the van while negotiating a bend. The vehicle skidded off the road and overturned, he said.

The violent impact killed Sornthip Khamthum, 22, a second-year accounting student at the college, and injured 11 other students, who were admitted to Phahon Phonphayuhasena Hospital.

An investigation was underway to establish the exact cause of the accident and prepare for possible legal action.

Local residences watch rescue volunteers helping passengers in a van which was overturned in Muang district of Kanchanaburi on Sunday. (Photo by Piyarat Chongcharoen)

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[Nereus]

Pickup hits tree, 2 killed

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... e-2-killed

KANCHANABURI: Two men were killed and two others seriously injured when a four-door pickup veered off a road and crashed into a tree in Phanom Thuan district early on Tuesday morning, police said.

Pol Capt Nathapat Thuamsuk, Phanom Thuan duty officer, said the accident occurred about 2.30am near Wat Don Ngiew of Moo 4 village in tambon Phanom Thuan.

After hitting the tree, the pickup overturned and came to rest upside down in the water in the roadside canal.

Police and rescuers called to the scene pulled four men out of the vehicle. Two were unconscious and were given cardiopulmonary resuscitation but died shortly afterward. The two others were seriously injured and were rushed to Chao Khun Paiboon Hospital in the district town.

Those killed were identified as Atthachai Sadkhla, 27, and Udomsak Henprasert, 28, and the injured Teerathan Vacharaphan, 28, and Jetnipat Surachai, 20. All were from tambon Phang Tru in Phanom Thuan district.

Wichet Sadkhla, Atthachai's father, told police the four men left from his house about 5pm on Monday in the pickup. He did not know where they went.

Police were investigating the cause of the accident.

[Nereus]

Car rear-ended, woman killed, husband injured

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... nd-injured

LAMPANG: A woman was killed and her husband seriously injured when their car was rear-ended by a pickup in Muang district on Tuesday night, police said.

The accident occurred about 9.30pm near a three-way junction to Ban Tha Dua on Lampang-Phayao road in tambon Phichai, Pol Lt Col Kamol Kid-an, a Muang police duty officer, said.

Witnesses said the car was travelling out of Lampang town in the far left lane and was hit from behind by a speeding Isuzu pickup going in the same direction.

The violent impact drove the car off the road, seriously injuring the car's driver, Narong Khanchaiyawong, 58, and killing his wife Chaluay, 55, who was in the front passenger seat.

The rear section of the car was badly crumpled and the front also damaged. Rescuers used a hydraulic jack to force open the wreckage and extract the couple.

The pickup driver, identified only as Sakchai, 25, was taken to Lampang Hospital for a blood test to determine if he was driving under the influence.

Rescuers force open a Mitsubishi car rear-ended by a pickup on Lampang-Phayao road in Muang district of Lampang on Tuesday night. (Photo by Assawin Wongnokaew)

[Dannie Boy]

We went to Makro HH today and travelling there saw the result of a 2-3 car accident - no details but the police were there. On the way back and right in the middle of the entrance to Thai Watsadu there was the driver or passenger if a motorbike lying in the floor with her bike under the front of a pickup or SUV (I was looking more at the woman than the vehicle). The police and medics were in attendance- no idea how badly injured the woman was but 2 accidents on the same stretch of road (in opposite directions) in the space of less than an hour.


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[caller]

I saw the aftermath of an accident at Takiap late Sunday afternoon, a smallish truck (not pick up) had been in the process of turning left and there was a bike jammed under it between the front and rear set of wheels. A largish 'un-shirted' farang was standing holding the top of his bald or shaved head with some sort of cloth, I assume to stop any bleeding. My interpretation, might be wrong, was that he was inside of the truck turning left, but these old trucks don't always have working indicators, or barely working ones. Heading from Takiap back to HH, we first saw a rescue truck with lights flashing heading to the accident, followed about 30 seconds later, by an ambulance.

[buksida]

Rode back from Kanchanaburi at the weekend and counted no less than four separate incidents with cars/pickups on their roof or in a ditch. Its amazing that drivers can actually get insurance here - it should cost a fortune.

[HHTel]

We went to Makro HH today and travelling there saw the result of a 2-3 car accident - no details but the police were there. On the way back and right in the middle of the entrance to Thai Watsadu there was the driver or passenger if a motorbike lying in the floor with her bike under the front of a pickup or SUV (I was looking more at the woman than the vehicle). The police and medics were in attendance- no idea how badly injured the woman was but 2 accidents on the same stretch of road (in opposite directions) in the space of less than an hour.


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I visit Thai Watsadu on most weekends and I don't think I've ever done the journey without witnessing quite a few near misses. I'm surprised there aren't more accidents between Cha-am and HH. Plenty of 90 kph signs but I sometimes wonder if I'm the only one taking any notice. Coming out of Thai Watsadu, I need to get to the outside lane to make the U-turn back to HH and on a busy day, I can sit there for a long time just waiting for a gap in the very fast moving traffic. 90 kph on the nearside lane and traffic in the other two lanes going much faster.
It's all well and good putting up 'camera' signs but I think everyone knows that there aren't any actual cameras. I'm surprised speed cams are not used more here, especially on Petchkasem. They would pay for themselves in no time at all.

[Nereus]

3 killed, 1 injured in Khon Kaen accident

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... n-accident

KHON KAEN: A man, his wife and their grandson were killed and another man injured in a road accident involving three vehicles in Muang district of this northeastern province on Sunday, police said.

The accident occurred at about 10am on the Khon Kaen-Phra Yuen road in tambon Ban Wa.

Suriya Thongla, 40, the driver of a pickup, told police that his vehicle laden with papayas was leaving Khon Kaen town when a Suzuki Ciaz tried to overtake it from the left. The road narrowed at that point, and the car crashed into the left side of his pickup, spun around, veered across the median and collided with an oncoming lorry loaded with earth.

The violent collision killed the driver, Art Wichamoon, 50, and his wife Somkid, age not known. Also killed was their grandson, aged two years and eight months, who was sitting on hisgrandmother's lap in the left front seat.

The driver of the lorry, who was not identified, was slightly injured.

Pol Capt Yongyuth Sadao, a investigator from Muang Kao police sub-station, said he had questioned the drivers of the pickup and the lorry. Forensic police were called to examine the three vehicles to establish the cause of the accident.

[caller]

Coming out of Thai Watsadu, I need to get to the outside lane to make the U-turn back to HH and on a busy day, I can sit there for a long time just waiting for a gap in the very fast moving traffic. 90 kph on the nearside lane and traffic in the other two lanes going much faster.

Not meaning to teach you to suck eggs or anything, but there is nothing wrong with going on to the next U-turn instead and I now find it easier to come out of the 'entrance', which signs indicate you can now do, which gives more time to get over for the U-turn immediately after the store.

[HHTel]

Thanks, Caller. Never thought of coming out via the 'entrance'. It would make sense. And yes, I know I could filter into the nearside lane and continue to the next U-Turn.

[buksida]

Rescuer hit, killed by pickup on roadside
A member of a local rescue unit died after being hit by a pickup truck while assisting the occupants of another pickup that had run off a road in Pran Buri district of this lower Central province on Tuesday, police said.

Pol Lt Nathapol Thalenoi, a Pran Buri police investigator, identified the ill-fated rescuer as Atthawut Nubanko of the Sawang Phae Paisan Thammasathan rescue unit.

Likit Inklam, another rescuer from the same unit, told police that he and Atthawut arrived on a motorcycle at kilometre marker 47 on Pran Buri-Cha Am road where a bronze Toyota Vigo loaded with jellyfish had veered off the road and hit a tree, dumping buckets of jelly fish on the roadside.

After parking the motorcycle and placing a strobe light on it, he and Atthawut were examining the pickup from the roadside when the driver of a dark Toyota Vigo lost control and failed to negotiate the bend.

Mr Likit said he jumped from the road and escaped unhurt, but Atthawat was struck and killed.

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... n-roadside