Man crushed to death on railway line in Nakhon Ratchasima

By Ratchai Orachon
The Nation

 

 

A Thai man in his 30s was crushed to death by a train at 2am on Saturday at the Sikhiu train station in Nakhon Ratchasima province.

 

 

Pol Captain Teerapong Pinijmontri said the man appeared to have stepped out of a train at the station and walked across the railway tracks when he appears to have fallen and been crushed by an oncoming train.

 

Police are investigating if the man, found to be carrying the Thai ID card of Buri Ram resident Butr Hanchiew, 36, had committed suicide or accidentally fainted and fallen on the tracks.

 

Preliminary investigation showed that the man had stepped off an Ubon Ratchathani-bound train and walked across before he dropped down, as if to lie down on the ground. His body was sent to Sikhiu Hospital for autopsy and police would contact his relatives to collect the body for religious rites soon.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30376191

 

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Wouldn't take too long to piece the facts together he was doing a shortcut and was cut short... 

 

Reminds me the headlines, mid81... police holding up a severed hand; asking if any reader could ID him? "Do you recognize this man?" They were hoping someone would recognize his ring.

Oh horrible to be crushed by a train, if suicide then even more sad as he was so young to loose hope.

rip mate????

12 minutes ago, Tropposurfer said:

Oh horrible to be crushed by a train, if suicide then even more sad as he was so young to loose hope.

rip mate????

Of course it´s a terrible thing to happen regardless of the reason for it. Let´s hope the man gets peace, and his family can move on.

However, Tropposurfer. Why would it be more horrible to be crushed by a train? I mean, do you know anybody that survived that have given you first hand information about the feeling? I would say it will be much more horrible to be burned alive, or freeze to death as well as die of starvation. Beeing crushed by a train sound quite painless and quick to me.

5 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Police are investigating if the man, found to be carrying the Thai ID card of Buri Ram resident Butr Hanchiew, 36, had committed suicide or accidentally fainted and fallen on the tracks.

That's going to be difficult to investigate if he was traveling alone.. unless relatives come forward saying the man had personal issues.

Not sure why they want to do an autopsy. Cause of death appears to be run over by train. 

7 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Pol Captain Teerapong Pinijmontri said the man appeared to have stepped out of a train at the station and walked across the railway tracks when he appears to have fallen and been crushed by an oncoming train.

So he took a train to commit suicide by train ? 

1 minute ago, RichardColeman said:

So he took a train to commit suicide by train ? 

No one knows whether it was suicide or an accident , they are currently investigating

14 hours ago, Tropposurfer said:

Oh horrible to be crushed by a train, if suicide then even more sad as he was so young to loose hope.

rip mate????

The society has not been kind to him that's why.

I hope all train stations in Thailand have overhead bridges in the future to prevent the need for passengers to walk across train tracks. Hopefully have double tracking and no more level crossings too. 

For those who have 4 hours to kill, watch this train journey from Butterworth to KL:
 

 

13 hours ago, Catoni said:

Not sure why they want to do an autopsy. Cause of death appears to be run over by train. 

Could reveal any underlying medical conditions for fall, (epilepsy)or use of drugs either prescribed or illicit or high levels of alcohol. Physical disabilities which may have caused fall.

22 minutes ago, Selatan said:

I hope all train stations in Thailand have overhead bridges in the future to prevent the need for passengers to walk across train tracks. Hopefully have double tracking and no more level crossings too. 

For those who have 4 hours to kill, watch this train journey from Butterworth to KL:
 

 

Always scares me watching people dodge  round level crossing gates, some on scooters and on foot, and recently saw a damn big 4WD do same, full of kids. 

Suicide by train.

Where I am now, the subway system averages 1.5 "successful" attempts per month. "Successful" means they are killed by the train.

All attempts averages just over 3 per month.

People have jumped, lie across the tracks, gone into the tunnels, even squatted down to make sure their head gets the full impact 

29 minutes ago, mmushr00m said:

Suicide by train.

Where I am now, the subway system averages 1.5 "successful" attempts per month. "Successful" means they are killed by the train.

All attempts averages just over 3 per month.

People have jumped, lie across the tracks, gone into the tunnels, even squatted down to make sure their head gets the full impact 

The longer term traumatic impact on drivers and other train staff when death occurs this way is often lifelong.

It used to be that when you suicide by train in japan, the family got charged for the clean up. 

I know of a guy whose son was killed in Iraq.  The father stepped out in front of a train.  Sad.