Another bus overturns, 3 dead
A Khon Kaen-Nakhon Phanom bus overturned when the driver lost control while handling a downhill curve in Kalasin's Somdet district at 5pm on Tuesday. Three passengers were killed and 35 others injured. Police blame the accident on malfunctioning brakes an
This is the second bus accident this week. On Monday, a double-decker tour bus plunged down a 10-metre ravine in Phitsanulok killing five people and wounding 50 others.
In Prachuap Khiri Khan’s Kui Buri district, a collision between a pick-up truck transporting Samui hotel workers to Nakhon Nakhon and a freezer truck at 1.30am yesterday led to the death of two passengers sitting in the pick-up truck’s rear carriage and injured two, including a three-month-old child.
Sanook Singmart, 44, a vocalist with the “R Siam” band, was wounded and Pipatpong Sirisom, 26, a member of his entourage, was killed when their car overturned in Roi Et’s Thawat Buri district just after midnight yesterday. They were heading for a concert in Tak. It is suspected that the driver, Winyu Khamsri, dozed off behind wheel and lost control of the car.
