Three injured as pickup hits power pole

[webfact]

Three injured as pickup hits power pole

By Eakkapop Thongtub

 

Rescue workers arrived to find the pickup truck still wrapped around the power pole. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET: Three men were injured when the pickup truck they were travelling in struck a roadside power pole about 50 metres south of the Tha Reua Chinese Shrine on Thepkrasattri Rd, in Srisoonthorn, last night (Jan 24). 

 

Capt Somnuk Kaewpetch of the Thalang Police was called to the scene at about 10pm. 

 

Police together with Srisoonthorn Municipality and Kusoldharm rescue workers arrived to find a black Toyota  Hilux Revo pickup truck, registered in Uttaradit, still wrapped around the power pole on the southbound side of the road.

 

Full story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/three-injured-as-pickup-hits-power-pole-78774.php

 

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[toofarnorth]

I feel sure the power pole was not there last week , damn power poles appearing out of nowhere !

[PatOngo]

So many of them could'nt drive to save themselves! If it was'nt a power pole to hit it would be a tree or a motorcycle!

[PETERTHEEATER]

1 hour ago, toofarnorth said:

I feel sure the power pole was not there last week , damn power poles appearing out of nowhere !

The pickup is all-electric. The power pole is part of the government plan to support EV sales in the Kingdom. Don't knock it when you can crash it. ????

[KhunBENQ]

"Power pole of the day".

Couldn't that be a generic pinned thread?

And this damned rain that makes slippery road. Yet again

And we will never know the outcome of the drunk driving test.

Quality pole beats thin metal sheet.

Edited January 25, 2021 by KhunBENQ

[Justgrazing]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

a black Toyota  Hilux Revo pickup truck, registered in Uttaradit, still wrapped around the power pole

 

Should've been driving a Ford Raptor ..

 

[Benmart]

Pickups, SUVs and now more powerful motorscooters/mototcycles are in the hands of maniacs, who have no business driving anything bigger than a bicycle with training wheels. And aside from those who are suppose to ensure roadway safety, there is the general public.

[Burma Bill]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

registered in Uttaradit

 Fell asleep at the wheel after a long drive?????

[digger70]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Three injured as pickup hits power pole

Nothing new . Power poles will do that to vehicles.  ????

[Gandtee]

It's time for a crackdown on power poles! They are causing too many accidents. Not a week goes past before one leaps in front of a vehicle. It's becoming too much. Where are our police?

[Old Croc]

I now don't even bother wondering about in which street this sort of accident happens.

It's always the same one.

[beechbum]

3 hours ago, Old Croc said:

I now don't even bother wondering about in which street this sort of accident happens.

It's always the same one.

Like most of the quotes on theses threads when it happens.