Thailand Road Carnage: Four dead one injured as Mirage hits power pole and ends up in field

[webfact]

Picture: Siam Rath

 

Prachantakham police in Prachinburi, central/NE Thailand attended the scene after a Mitsubishi Mirage hit a power pole and ended up overturned in a field.

 

The car was being driven by a contractor.

 

Victims were both inside and outside the vehicle.

 

Taken to hospital was 40 year old Lapwat. He had been ejected from the vehicle.

 

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Dead at the scene were a 37 year old Laotian woman called Khambai who was sitting next to the driver who suffered a broken neck, reported Siam Rath.

 

She was three months pregnant (with the media assessing the foetus as one of the dead victims).

 

Also dead at the scene were two men named as Somporn, 37, and Amnuay, 56. 

 

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[hotchilli]

And so it continues.

[RichardColeman]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Taken to hospital was 40 year old Lapwat. He had been ejected from the vehicle.

So, not wearing a belt may have actually saved his life ? 

[digger70]

52 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

So, not wearing a belt may have actually saved his life ? 

Ejector Seat?

[transam]

58 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

So, not wearing a belt may have actually saved his life ? 

Doubt it....

[Thunglom]

On 4/25/2022 at 9:39 AM, hotchilli said:

And so it continues.

Remember that stistcically when in a car in Thailand, your chances of dying are sightly less than in the USA.

[hotchilli]

1 hour ago, Thunglom said:

Remember that stistcically when in a car in Thailand, your chances of dying are sightly less than in the USA.

Statistically speaking my chances of dying in a car in USA are zero... as I don't live there.

However my chances of doing so in Thailand are much higher.

[Thunglom]

8 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Statistically speaking my chances of dying in a car in USA are zero... as I don't live there.

However my chances of doing so in Thailand are much higher.

,,,and do you know what they are?

 

[hotchilli]

49 minutes ago, Thunglom said:

,,,and do you know what they are?

 

????

[Thunglom]

2 hours ago, hotchilli said:

????

Falling asleep at the wheel?

[Thunglom]

Chances of dying at the wheel in a 4-wheeled vehicle (private, buses and commercial vehicles etc) in Thailand - about 8,9 per 100 population. In the USA – deaths per 100k in 4 wheeled (private only) = 10.6 -  [Insurance Institute for Highway Safety]

[Thunglom]

On 4/25/2022 at 9:39 AM, hotchilli said:

And so it continues.

In accurate and pointless media coverage of road safety.