First-year student dies in Bangkok road crash
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A first-year technology university student was killed after his SUV ran off the road and crashed into trees early Friday.
Police were alerted at 1:30am about the accident at the kilometre marker No 37 on the Bang Na-bound Kanchanapisek ring road in Bangkok’s Khan Na Yao district.
Rescuers found a Toyota Land Cruiser had crashed into and knocked down three trees about 50 metres off the road.
The body of Sutthawee Aroonwiwatkul, 19, a Khan Na Yao resident and student of the Thai-Nichi Institute of Technology, was found lying face-down in the roadside ditch.
Police suspect the SUV was speeding and lost control on the road made slippery by heavy rains. Police found rubber tracks indicating that Sutthawee had applied brakes for about 50 metres before crashing
