All 16 were rushed to the Surin Hospital following the accident, which occurred at 7.30am on the Surin-Si Sa Ket road in Ban Buthom village of Muang district. 
The injured workers told police that they were travelling to work at a construction site in the district when one of the pickup&rsquo;s tyres burst, causing it to flip.

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16 injured in Surin pickup accident

The driver and 15 construction workers were injured when their pickup truck overturned on a road in Surin’s Muang district Thursday morning, seriously injuring two.