Bank employee killed after car plunges into Phatthalung canal

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Bank employee killed after car plunges into Phatthalung canal

By The Nation

 

Picture: Channel 3

 

A bank employee was found dead on the bonnet of his car on Wednesday morning after it plunged into a canal beside a railway station in Phatthalung's Muang district.

 

The victim was identified as Chatcharin Jongwang, 29, an employee at a local branch of the Siam Commercial Bank.

 

He apparently climbed out of the driver’s seat before succumbing to injuries sustained in the crash, which crushed the car’s roof. Drowning has been ruled out as the cause of death since the canal is only 80 centimetres deep. Documents from the car were left strewn on the canal bank.

 

Police theorised that the driver failed to make a turn at an intersection and drove straight into an earth levee, causing his car to flip and plunge into the canal.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30355235

 

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[edwinchester]

Guy near us drowned in 6 inches of water after cart wheeling his pickup into a drain and being knocked unconscious.

[marko kok prong]

Sounds like internal injuries did him in.

[trainman34014]

We will probably never know but there is a very good chance he wasn't wearing a seat belt, which may have saved his life.

[oldlakey]

5 hours ago, marko kok prong said:

Sounds like internal injuries did him in.

Absent driving skills

[hotchilli]

In this type of accident I don't think a seat belt is of much use.... when your times up it's up !

[Odysseus123]

10 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

In this type of accident I don't think a seat belt is of much use.... when your times up it's up !

I would have thought that wearing a seat belt (to prevent injury) was most essential in this type of accident.