Tourists escape as bus roof ripped back
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A double-decker tour bus smashed into an overhead metal beam at Bangkok's Asoke intersection overpass on Tuesday night, wounding 12 German tourists.
After a report at 10pm of an accident involving a tour bus near Don Bosco School on Phetchaburi Road, Makkasan police found the Pongprasert Tour Co double-decker stuck under the overpass’s metal beam with its roof ripped open. Five male and seven female tourists who were on the bus’s upper deck were hit by broken glass and taken to Praram 9 Hospital.
Pol Lieutenant Chakkapop Chimpeungpanao said driver Prapan Phantaeng, 62, had been taking the tourists from Sanam Luang to the Amari Atrium Hotel but failed to see the height-limit warning on the metal beam.
