Pickup overturns while racing car, crashes into 10 vehicles
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A pickup truck racing on Srinakharin Road overturned and crashed into 10 other vehicles early on Saturday, severely injuring the pickup driver.
Police said the accident happened at 2.30am near kilometre marker No 17.5 on the outbound Srinakharin Road.
The pickup driver was identified as Worapol Maneerat, 26. He suffered severe injuries to his body and had broken legs.
Police quoted eyewitnesses as saying that the driver did a U-turn on the road twice as he raced with a Mercedes Benz car but his pickup grazed the car and rolled over.
The rolling pickup hit a car on the road, four vehicles parked on the roadside and five vehicles in a roadside used-car shop.
The Benz fled the scene.
Police said they would check security cameras before pressing charges.
