Boats to be checked following fatal crash
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Surat Thani Governor Wongsiri Phromchana Monday instructed Provincial Harbour Office head Prawet Supachai to have all 200 boats operating on the Ratchaprapa dam checked for safety, following a deadly incident on Saturday in which a long-tailed tourist boa
The collision resulted in the death of the transport boat’s driver, Prakij Saisema, 69.
A scuba-diving team Monday continued their search for Prakij’s body without success at the scene of the accident, a waterfall.
The inspections include drivers’ health and stemmed from a police report that the driver of the tourist boat, Weerayuth Satthasuk, 24, was short-sighted and could not see the other boat properly.
