A horrible crash on Motorway Route 7 in Chon Buri killed 4 people early this morning, including a pregnant employee. The accident occurred when a van carrying migrant employees rear-ended a trailer truck on the Pattaya-inbound lane within the Nong Khang Khok sub-district of the primary city district.
Rescuers and police rushed to the scene to discover a passenger van with Bangkok licence plates that had sustained important injury to the front. An 18-wheel trailer truck hauling a container was discovered nearby, Bangkok Post reported.
The van driver and 12 passengers had been trapped inside the car and needed to be retrieved from the wreckage. Unfortunately, the driver, fifty five year previous Pattaradet Kaew-in, and three passengers lost their lives, while the 9 injured, 5 significantly, were transported to Chon Buri Hospital.
A police investigation discovered that the van was carrying 12 migrant staff from Cambodia and Myanmar who had hired the driver to take them to the border province of Chanthaburi to resume their migrant employee playing cards.
The truck driver, 50 year previous Sayen Phalaphon told police that he was driving along the motorway when the van all of a sudden rammed into the back of his automobile, and the brakes were not utilized. Wacky suspected that the van driver might have fallen asleep.
The ThaiRSC reported in January that as many as 939,713 highway accidents have been reported in Thailand final yr, up four.7% from 2021. Road accidents killed 14,737 folks, and injured 924,799 final 12 months, ThaiRSC said. The committee reported that 536 deaths and seven,885 injuries had been amongst foreigners.
Meanwhile, the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department’s Road Safety Centre reported 2,440 street accidents through the annual “7 harmful days” (December 29 to January 4) when individuals head to their hometowns to mark the new yr..