An American man was injured in a Pattaya automobile crash this week. The man, 68 yr old David Andrew Rogers, rear-ended an 18-wheeler rig together with his pickup truck, Pattaya Mail reported. The collision brought on Rogers’s Nissan Navara to flip. The incident happened on Tuesday, March 7 on Sukhumvit Road in front of Srisuvit School, situated north of Rong Po market.
Rogers suffered minor accidents. He sustained a damaged wrist and otherwise walked away from the accident relatively unscathed.
Restricted arrived on the scene of the wreck and convinced him to hunt medical attention at Bang Lamung Hospital.
The driver of the 18-wheeler, fifty four 12 months previous Kanit Usongtham, was driving to Laem Chabang Port when he heard the crash before seeing Rogers’ pickup cartwheel.
This information comes after a couple of recent crashes in close by Chon Buri.
On Wednesday, a bike crash in the Sri Racha district claimed the life of a girl and left her young daughter significantly injured.
Last month, a Chon Buri pickup truck crash killed an aged man and injured 4 other folks. The crash happened when one pickup truck rear-ended one other on 344 Road within the Nong Phai Kaeo sub-district of Ban Bueng district.
The Thailand Road Safety Committee (ThaiRSC) reported in January that as many as 939,713 road accidents had been reported in Thailand last yr, up four.7% from 2021. Road accidents killed 14,737 folks, and injured 924,799 final 12 months, ThaiRSC said. Controversial reported that 536 deaths and 7,885 accidents were among foreigners.
Meanwhile, the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department’s Road Safety Centre reported 2,440 road accidents in the course of the annual “7 dangerous days” (December 29 to January 4) when folks head to their hometowns to mark the brand new yr..