Govt compensates family of dead world cyclist

Guillermo was killed in a road accident in tambon Bua Lai in Nakhon Ratchasima’s Bua Yai district on Saturday while completing the final leg of a five-year, round-the-world cycling journey. 

Guillermo’s 39-year-old Singaporean wife, Pei Ling, and their two-year-old son, were also injured in the accident, and Tuesday remained at Bua Yai Hospital. Pei Ling sustained a broken leg and will take another week to recover. The Chilean Embassy contacted Guillermo’s family in Chile and the family authorised his wife to proceed with arrangements for his funeral at Wat Pa Thamma Utthayan in Khon Kaen province, as he had reportedly asked for earlier. 

Guillermo was not the first intercontinental cyclist to die in a Thai road accident. Two years ago, two world-famous British cyclists died after being struck by a pickup truck in Thailand.