Mother, two daughters killed when car hit by train in Surat Thani

By The Nation

 

 

A mother and her two young daughters were killed when their car was hit by a train at a railway crossing in Surat Thani's Phun Pin district on Saturday morning.

 

Police said the accident happened at a rail crossing in front of the Tambon Phun Phin Administrative Organization that is located between Maluan and Thung Pho railway stations.

 

The car was hit by the Bangkok-Yala train.

 

Police said Amornrat Suator, 34, was killed behind the wheel and Saranporn Phadthong, 7, and Supatcha Phadthong, 4, died at the Phun Pin Hospital.

Amornrat's sister told police that Amornrat was sending her elder sister for special tuition and she might not have been familiar with the road that has a rail crossing without barriers.

 

Train passengers told police that the train driver used a horn to signal the car to move off the rails before the crash.

 

Surat Thani provincial governor Witchuwit Jinto said he instructed officials to improve visibility by cutting trees and tall grass near the rail crossing.

 

The governor said he would cooperate with the State Railway of Thailand to find measures to prevent more accidents because the same train hit a pickup truck in Surat Thani's Tha Chana district on January 22, killing two people.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30364639

 

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Looks like a serial killing crazy train and a driver unaware this is going to hurt or just unaware she is in a car????RIP

15 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

Surat Thani provincial governor Witchuwit Jinto said he instructed officials to improve visibility by cutting trees and tall grass near the rail crossing.

Urgently do something....after the fact, You can imagine the Mother

saying to herself, I can make it,I can make it, RIP especially the Kids.

regards Worgeordie

3 nights ago here Surin city an old guy gets the chop ducking under the crossing .

My deepest regards to the family and the train crew .

43 minutes ago, mok199 said:

My deepest regards to the family and the train crew .

Mustn't forget the train crew, i particular the driver, must be a terrible shock. Hope it wasn't the same driver as the January 22  crash. RIP mother and kids.

3 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

Looks like a serial killing crazy train and a driver unaware this is going to hurt or just unaware she is in a car????RIP

You think the driver is guilty ? stop a train take hundreds of meters, the driver saw the car and used a horn ; what can he do more ? 

Very sad and RIP to the victims but rarely trying to beat a train, dithering on a railway crossing etc does the car win.

The cost of installing boom gates seems to outweigh the worth of human lives.

3 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

Looks like a serial killing crazy train and a driver unaware this is going to hurt or just unaware she is in a car????RIP

train has right of way

5 minutes ago, xerostar said:

The cost of installing boom gates seems to outweigh the worth of human lives.

 

yea,  but... even when there are boom gates people go round or under them, you see it all the time. yes effective safety equipment needs to be installed and be functioning but also the mindset of certain people needs to change.

another tragic needless but completely normal event in "sabai sabai land"

..........and these people want high speed trains ?

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Thais seem to lack common sense on a national scale. I can't think of another reason for all this stupidity. Poor kids, RIP.

Just now, RichardColeman said:

..........and these people want high speed trains ?

God forbid!

1 hour ago, atyclb said:

another tragic needless but completely normal event in "sabai sabai land"

 

These sort of accidents are very common in similar conditions (open/unregulated crossings) worldwide.

 

It is a "completely normal event" in many other countries and I doubt that Thailand has a record significantly different to them.

 

Unregulated crossings are an open invitation to disaster, which gamblers, the careless and the unwary, worldwide, all too readily accept.

 

 

Wrong title

 It should be: car hit train, not the other way

5 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

Looks like a serial killing crazy train and a driver unaware this is going to hurt or just unaware she is in a car????RIP

Nothing to do with the train driver.... he's on a track.

It's the suicidal vehicle drivers who think they can just make it across in time that are the crazy ones !!!!

5 hours ago, rooster59 said:

she might not have been familiar with the road that has a rail crossing without barriers.

And break failure. RIP.

How sad.

Yes they were going to do something about 10 in the back of a truck when the last died........

Yup, cut the trees and tall grass down now, after the accident, sounds like the regular way to fix a bad train crossing. RIP to the 3 killed.

Geezer

That means there have been two accidents in two months both of which ended up with fatalities so why were the trees and long grass not cut after the first accident does this train crossing not have barriers or flashing red lights on it to warn people of an oncoming train RIP to all the deceased ????????

2 hours ago, jesimps said:

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Thais seem to lack common sense on a national scale. I can't think of another reason for all this stupidity. Poor kids, RIP.

 

It really is quite amazing, isn't it. I've never seen any evidence of it in over 25 years in Thailand.

Always the same incorrect headline - Train hits car? Err no more like 'Stupid car driver in act of suicide' Drivers without any sense even with kids who take a needless risk to beat trains over crossings and pay with their lives - Tragic

 

RIP to the dead 

 

and hope the train driver is not too affected by it (and any onlookers who may have seen the aftermath)

sorry to say its normal thai behaviour, cannot wait one minute, in 6 years i the years i have been here. i have not see a thai wait for a green light at traffic lights, i always wait, for the green, so i can be sure, if there is going to be an accident , it wont be me, let them shoot off first.

Not just a Thai problem,  happens in the UK on a fairly regular basis.  Unmanned crossings, with or without physical barriers,  are an accident waiting to happen and a death trap for the unwary  

Why is this a shock? It is expected...

 

a poor decision to cross/sit on the tracks...just the way driving is here....

 

same idiots who block intersections at rush hour....stupidity and selfishness are infectious...

 

sympathy will be overflowing thus another case history opportunity missed for assigning accountability  

 

Trimmed some trees that will do it...

 

what do they say....never confuse activity with achievement....

 

if you are a properly trained driver, why are you unwary?