8 women on a pilgrimage die in a road accident in Khon Kaen province

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Eight women were killed and two others injured, including a 9-year-old girl, when a passenger van, in which they were travelling on a pilgrimage, flipped and ploughed into a roadside ditch in Thailand’s north-eastern province of Khon Kaen last night.

 

Emergency services, who attended the scene of the accident on a bypass in the Muang district, said that six people were found dead at the scene. Four were injured and were rushed to a hospital in the district, where two were later pronounced dead.

 

The driver of the van and a 9-year-old girl survived the accident with injuries.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/13-high-risk-people-in-isolation-to-monitor-for-monkeypox-symptoms/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2022-08-01

 

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[sawadee1947]

Probably without seat belts....which are not easy to pull out between the seats I admit

[trainman34014]

Nobody ever seems to teach them 'Speed Kills'; not that they would listen of course , because they are 'so clever' !

 

RIP the innocent dead.

[transam]

I hope they do a few tests on the driver......????

[DualSportBiker]

I avoid minivans, however I've sat on Nok Air's vans to complete trips to Mukdahan... On every occasion I wear my seatbelt to the amusement of everyone else, regardless of age or superficial sophistication. With that kind of attitude, this story will repeat ad nauseam.

[worgeordie]

I wonder if the police ever take the drivers phone

in accidents , and check if they were on the phone

when the accident occured , was watching on BBC 

were a driver of an HGV plowed into the rear of

a line of cars stopped on a motorway ,killing 3

people , a policeman asks for his phone and

when it's checked ,at time of crash he was on

a dating site.    here it's just put down to micro sleep.

 

regards worgeordie