Four elderly people killed in road accident in Suphan Buri
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Two elderly women were killed when they were hit by a car that was allegedly speeding to an ordination ceremony in Suphan Buri yesterday afternoon, police said.
Two elderly men in the car were also killed while the 72-year-old driver was injured.
The driver claimed that the two women suddenly tried to cross the road pushing a bicycle and he could not stop in time.
The women were aged 62 and 66 while the two dead men were aged 60 and 79.
The driver, Samarn Pongpanit, was arrested.
Meanwhile, a brake mishap in a car driven by a 68-year-old woman at a gas station in Bangkok’s Huai Kwang district yesterday afternoon resulted in five injuries.
Wannee Warojananulak told police she finished a gas fill-up and when she went to drive away the car reversed through a fence into a restaurant.
The injured diners, all women aged 30 to 55, were taken to Praram 9 Hospital.
