Two dead after truck/CRV collision - the Honda drove on for 2 kms with a dead person at the wheel

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Picture: Siam Rath

 

Bang Saphan area police in Prachuap Khirikhan were called to the scene of a double fatality.

 

A four wheel truck had collided with a Honda CRV and then plowed into a large tree, reported Siam Rath. 

 

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The driver of the truck - Sitthichai, 25, - was dead behind the steering wheel. The truck bore the name "MEC Logistics".

 

An apparently pregnant black dog was also found alive. 

 

Picture: Siam Rath

 

About two kilometers away was the Honda. The driver Phimphan, 44, was dead.

 

Her front passenger seat companion Rosarin who was only slightly injured managed to keep control of the car from her seat.

 

Picture: Siam Rath

 

In the back of the car a woman called Kirana needed ten stitches for a wound to her head.

 

The accident happened on the Petchkasem Highway in Chaikasem sub-district KM. markers 373-374. 

 

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[Moonlover]

Very cool headed of the passenger of the CRV to keep the car under control. It must been a very traumatic experience for her.

 

Edited April 1, 2022 by Moonlover

[ezzra]

Judging from the picture the truck driver didn't have a chance there, it must have been a very high speed collusion to cause that much damage and take the lives of two people, i wonder though, why it took 2 km to stop the CRV?...

[Moonlover]

3 minutes ago, ezzra said:

Judging from the picture the truck driver didn't have a chance there, it must have been a very high speed collusion to cause that much damage and take the lives of two people, i wonder though, why it took 2 km to stop the CRV?...

The truck hit a large tree! The CRV was being steered from the passenger seat from were one cannot reach the controls. The passenger might not even have been an experienced driver! Kudus to her.

[Liverpool Lou]

20 minutes ago, ezzra said:

Judging from the picture the truck driver didn't have a chance there, it must have been a very high speed collusion to cause that much damage and take the lives of two people, i wonder though, why it took 2 km to stop the CRV?...

Perhaps because the driver was dead behind the wheel and the two injured female passengers either, did not know how to, or weren't physically capable of stopping the car?

Edited April 1, 2022 by Liverpool Lou

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, Moonlover said:

Very cool headed of the passenger of the CRV to keep the car under control. It must been a very traumatic experience for her.

 

But not able to reach the ignition key, knock it out of gear or pull the handbrake.

Otherwise good work.

 

[Moonlover]

51 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

6 hours ago, Moonlover said:

Very cool headed of the passenger of the CRV to keep the car under control. It must been a very traumatic experience for her.

 

51 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

But not able to reach the ignition key, knock it out of gear or pull the handbrake.

Otherwise good work.

 

You're very quick to criticize her actions when you don't know if the lady was even a driver!

 

Edited April 1, 2022 by Moonlover

[hotchilli]

27 minutes ago, Moonlover said:

 

You're very quick to criticize her actions when you don't know if the lady was even a driver!

 

She managed to steer it for 2 kilometres.. lucky for her she didn't kill anyone else.

I wasn't criticising her just saying there were better options.

[richard_smith237]

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

But not able to reach the ignition key, knock it out of gear or pull the handbrake.

Otherwise good work.

 

Most cars these days are ‘keyless’ and don’t have a a handbrake.

 

Modern cars have a pushbutton start, which means you can’t simply turn off the ignition, besides, doing so would disable to power-steering, as such would be somewhat dumb idea. 

 

Modern cars also now have a ‘parking brake’ which is a button or switch and not something which can be activated while the car is moving. 

 

As you pointed out, the only thing a passenger could do is knock it out of gear and hope it cruses to a halt while steering to keep the vehicle on the road, or even nudging the auto-gearbox into lower gears and ultimately into 1st to slow it down. 

Edited April 1, 2022 by richard_smith237

[Aussieroaming]

Another nasty accident ending, RIP.

[Moonlover]

22 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

She managed to steer it for 2 kilometres.. lucky for her she didn't kill anyone else.

I wasn't criticising her just saying there were better options.

Yes there were better options and If she'd been an experienced driver then she would have known how to set the hand brake move the shift to neutral. But it seems that she wasn't, or maybe in a panicked state and couldn't think straight.

 

I asked my wife to set the handbrake on her daughter's car a couple of weeks back. She didn't know where it was and she DOES have a license!

 

Edited April 1, 2022 by Moonlover

[bristolgeoff]

If the truck looked like that,how did the honda look like after the smash

[PETERTHEEATER]

34 minutes ago, bristolgeoff said:

If the truck looked like that,how did the honda look like after the smash

The truck hit a tree, the Honda did not......

[Moonlover]

9 hours ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

9 hours ago, bristolgeoff said:

If the truck looked like that,how did the honda look like after the smash

 

9 hours ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

The truck hit a tree, the Honda did not......

This accident took place on a dual carriageway so it is unlikely that this was a head on collision. I suspect that the truck was shunted from the rear by the CRV and swerved off the road into the tree.

 

The truck has no underride guard so it's probable that the CRV went under the tailgate, killing the driver, but was able to keep rolling because its underpinnings were still intact. The two ladies inside were very lucky. It must have been a terrifying ordeal.