Two injured as bus crashes into tree in Lampang

By Pratheep Nanthaparp
The Nation

 

 

Two people were seriously injured when a bus transporting some 40 employees of the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) after a field trip to Chanthaburi province, lost control and crashed into a roadside tree in Lampang province early on Sunday.

 

The accident took place a little past midnight at a spot between markers 673 and 674 on the Phaholyothin highway, in tambon Na Saeng, Koh Kha district. 

The two injured staffers were sent to a local hospital. 

 

Most of those who escaped unharmed could not tell police how the accident had happened as they were asleep.

 

Pol Captain Sirawit Chaiyawan of the Koh Kha Police Station said police suspected the crash was either caused by the bus skidding on the slippery road following rains while going downhill or by the bus driver dozing off behind the wheel.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30373799

 

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3 hours ago, webfact said:

Two people were seriously injured when a bus.........lost control and crashed into a roadside tree

Presumably the news reporter means the bus lost control of itself while the driver was having a power nap. Very careless of the bus to put passenger's lives at risk, especially so the driver if/while he was in the Land of Nod.

Apparently the driver was one of the people who was asleep.

Unfortunatly the driver didn't wake in in time to do a runner...

Damn tree huggers....

The reporters must have dozed of, it's the first bus crash article in days.

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Most of those who escaped unharmed could not tell police how the accident had happened as they were asleep.

...as was the driver.

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Most of those who escaped unharmed could not tell police how the accident had happened as they were asleep

As was the driver... probably.

7 hours ago, webfact said:

a bus transporting some 40 employees of the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) after a field trip to Chanthaburi province, lost control and crashed into a roadside tree

I take it no plans to open a branch office there?

It is a long drive from Chanthaburi to Lampang so was there only one driver? Really sad as they were almost home. EGAT owns and operates the Mae Mo lignite power station near Lampang.

5 hours ago, bluesofa said:

I take it no plans to open a branch office there?

No one in EGAT ????has twigged to the benefit of doing that.....

2 minutes ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

5 hours ago, bluesofa said:

I take it no plans to open a branch office there?

No one in EGAT ????has twigged to the benefit of doing that.....

OK, we'll leaf that one alone.