Lao migrant killed, five others injured in Loei pickup crash

By The Nation

 

 

A pickup truck hired to transport six Lao migrants back home for the Songkran holidays overturned in Loei’s Mueang district on Monday morning, killing one of them and injuring the other five.

 

The vehicle, driven by Suwan Boonnak, overturned after plunging into a roadside ditch in Ban None Kudjub village in Tambon Napong at 9am.

 

Suwan, who was slightly injured, told police that he had dozed off behind the wheel and lost control of his truck.

 

Lao male Ton Khamprasord, 45, died from his injuries after he and three other Lao men and two Lao women were rushed to Loei Hospital, police said.

 

Suwan said he had been hired by the six Laotians to take them from Loei’s Wang Saphung district to the Chiang Khan border checkpoint, where they would cross back into Laos for the long Songkran holiday period.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30367363

 

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My thoughts and prayers are with the families of the deceased and the injured. I have to wonder though, what will happen to the driver? It seems odd that he would "doze off" at 9am. It seems like a well used excuse, for his sake I hope it's legitimate.

RIP.

 

Would love to see campaigns aimed at educating thai drivers about the dangers of fatigue and speeding. Maybe constant reinforcement might eventually have a positive result. Doing nothing certainly wont reduce accident statistics.

pick up on the back, shall not carry any passenger at all.

when the government and police will decide to take serious action to reduce  road carnage ? 

 

another segment of history of poor people casualty on the way to search for a job, a bit more of money and then dying, sadness best adjective .