Two killed as vans crash
Two transport vans collided on Rom Khlao Road in Bangkok's Min Buri district yesterday at 5.20am, resulting in two deaths - a van driver and his 12yearold son. Sixteen other people were injured.
The deceased driver’s van was heading towards Lat Krabang, transporting people wishing to make merit in Kanchanaburi. Police found it collided with a second van heading towards Min Buri that was forced to swerve to avoid hitting a trailer truck that cut in front of it. The second van, whose driver was injured, flew across a road island into the path of the first.
Meanwhile in Kanchanaburi’s Tha Moung district, a threebogie train with 100 Thai and foreign visitors crashed into the rear of a sixwheel truck transporting 50 cooking gas tanks yesterday at 10am near Wat Khao Din, on a crossroad with no barrier. The truck driver, 28, was injured.
The crash resulted in gas leaks, which prompted officials to release gas in damaged tanks and light a fire while five fire engines sprayed water to contain the flames.
