Video: Truck ablaze - driver escapes but security guard is killed

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Video: Truck ablaze - driver escapes but security guard is killed

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Motorists watched in horror in Chonburi as a 60 year old motorcyclist trapped under the wheels of an 18 wheel truck was burnt alive.

 

Thongdaeng Daothaisong from Korat, a security guard at the nearby industrial estate, had ended up under the truck rupturing fuel lines.

 

Truck driver Pongwarit Chaitamma, 22, ran for his life as his vehicle burst into flames.

 

Fire services took half an hour to bring the blaze under control as traffic on the road leading up to a bridge over the motorway was held up.

 

The accident happened in the Phan Thong area of Chonburi.

 

Pongwarit told Thai Rath that he thought the motorcyclist may have been hit by another vehicle causing him to be propelled under his wheels.

Source: Thai Rath

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2018-05-29

 

[mikebell]

What a horrifying way to go.  He may have been hit by another vehicle?  No doubt the other driver fled the scene.

[NCC1701A]

horrific.

 

RIP victim of the do nothing Thai police and government.

[richard_smith237]

There was 'other' footage on the Thai news which showed this incident from a following vehicle a couple of cars back, its not completely clear what happened. However the truck in question swerves left sharply... perhaps attempting to avoid the fallen motorcycle. A car (the guilty party?) is seen continuing on... 

 

My guess at the time was that the car had knocked the bike rider off and the following articulated truck was unable to avoid running over the motorcyclist and his bike. 

[drgoon]

what a horrible way to go..

[TKDfella]

Unthinkable and terrible. My condolences to the guards family.