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Italian couple crushed to death by oil tanker in southern Thailand

 

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An Italian couple were killed after an oil tanker overturned at a junction in Chumphon on Thursday.

 

The couple named as Giuliano De Santis, 42, and Ilaria Rizzo, 37, were travelling by motorcycle along the Pak Nam Road in Pak Nam Subdistrict when an oil tanker lost control and overturned crushing the couple.

 

Police and rescue workers were called to the scene of the accident at 4.30pm on Thursday where they found the 10 wheel Isuzu had overturned, spilling thousands of litres of fuel over the road.

 

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The 64 year old driver of the tanker, who was unhurt, said he had been hired to deliver fuel to gas stations in Chumphon province.

 

He said he had more than ten years experience driving trucks and had never had an accident before.

 

The driver said as he approached the junction the brakes didn’t work properly causing him to lose control of the tanker, which resulted in it overturning and landing on top of the couple.

 

However, a witness told police that he saw the tanker approach the junction at speed and attempt to make a left turn, which is when the vehicle overturned.

 

The witness said initially he wasn’t aware that anyone else was involved in the accident as he quickly took his grandchildren away from the scene as he could see large amounts of fuel spilling out onto the road.

 

Police said the Italian couple had arrived in Thailand on 21 February and were here on holiday. Manager reported that another foreign couple, believed to friends of the deceased, were travelling behind the couple when the accident occured.

 

Police added that it took nearly two hours to clean the road of the fuel and recover the overturned vehicle.

 

The driver has been held pending further investigations.

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

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11 minutes ago, webfact said:

The driver has been held pending further investigations.

From a report in another source and a cop talking on video it sounds like the truck driver was intoxicated.

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RIP Italian couple -they deserve too after an accident like that!

Two hours to clean up the fuel - hard to believe, you would want to be careful on that stretch of road for a while!

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30 minutes ago, tlandtday said:

schedule what schedule...

Actually, yeah.

There I go with my responsible thinking again.

Silly me

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27 minutes ago, CGW said:

RIP Italian couple -they deserve too after an accident like that!

Two hours to clean up the fuel - hard to believe, you would want to be careful on that stretch of road for a while!

Somchai:  "While waiting I might as well spark up a ciga... "

 

FffffOOOOOOOOOOM!

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maybe it was carelessness, hard to tell with that video, but it could happen to anyone.. trucks and buses overturn all the time, it's called a traffic accident.. just this time a motorbike was in the wrong place at the wrong time.. 

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