Pickup Truck Crashes into Electric Pole in Nakhon Pathom, Leaving Seven Dead

[Georgealbert]

 

 

The Narenthorn Emergency Medical Centre received a report at approximately 23.30 on November 19, from the Nakhon Pathom provincial emergency response and command centre regarding a fatal crash on Highway 3296 near Wat Koh Rat curve in Bang Pla Subdistrict, Bang Len District, Nakhon Pathom.

 

On arrival responders found a four-door pickup truck which had been carrying six migrant workers, believed to be Burmese, with a Thai driver, that had  crashed into an electric pole and plunged off the road and into a waterway. Tragically, all seven individuals in the vehicle were pronounced dead at the scene.

 

Preliminary investigations reveal that the vehicle had evaded a police checkpoint set up by the Bang Len Police Station, before the driver sped away and lost control of the pickup at the curve. No other vehicle was involved in the incident.

 

Authorities are investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident, including the vehicle’s attempt to evade the checkpoint and the conditions leading to the crash. Names of the seven victims have not been released by police..

 

Picture from responders.

-- 2024-11-20

 

[ozz1]

7 people in a pick up yet no one can see a problem with people riding in the back police should be held accountable but nothing will change

[KannikaP]

3 hours ago, Georgealbert said:

 

 

The Narenthorn Emergency Medical Centre received a report at approximately 23.30 on November 19, from the Nakhon Pathom provincial emergency response and command centre regarding a fatal crash on Highway 3296 near Wat Koh Rat curve in Bang Pla Subdistrict, Bang Len District, Nakhon Pathom.

 

On arrival responders found a four-door pickup truck which had been carrying six migrant workers, believed to be Burmese, with a Thai driver, that had  crashed into an electric pole and plunged off the road and into a waterway. Tragically, all seven individuals in the vehicle were pronounced dead at the scene.

 

Preliminary investigations reveal that the vehicle had evaded a police checkpoint set up by the Bang Len Police Station, before the driver sped away and lost control of the pickup at the curve. No other vehicle was involved in the incident.

 

Authorities are investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident, including the vehicle’s attempt to evade the checkpoint and the conditions leading to the crash. Names of the seven victims have not been released by police..

 

Picture from responders.

-- 2024-11-20

 

It must have been going VERY fast to cause that sort of damage.

[DrJack54]

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[hotchilli]

8 hours ago, Georgealbert said:

On arrival responders found a four-door pickup truck which had been carrying six migrant workers, believed to be Burmese, with a Thai driver, that had  crashed into an electric pole and plunged off the road and into a waterway. Tragically, all seven individuals in the vehicle were pronounced dead at the scene

Big mistake...

[richard_smith237]

5 hours ago, ozz1 said:

7 people in a pick up yet no one can see a problem with people riding in the back police should be held accountable but nothing will change

 

It was announced a few years ago that people cannot ride in the flat bed of a pickup.

 

There were nationwide protests... with pickup owners complaining that they (the poor people) are being targeted... 

Authorities relented allowed people to be transported in the flat-bed a pickup for the Songkran period only - of course, all this did was enable people to continue on as they have been without change. 

 

IMO - society is also to blame here, when authorities try to do something and improve safety, there is a black-lash.

[impulse]

10 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

IMO - society is also to blame here, when authorities try to do something and improve safety, there is a black-lash.

 

In the hierarchy of traffic dangers, I think riding a scooter is more dangerous than riding in the back of a pickup.  If you ban that, aren't you relegating them to an even more dangerous mode of transport?

 

I wish everyone could afford 4 wheels, tons of steel and seatbelts.  But that's not the economic reality for most Thai people.  Cashed up expats are the ones who have a choice.

 

[ronster]

So were they actually all in the car and not in the flatbed area and did they die from drowning or crash impact ?

[Tailwagsdog]

Guns don't kill people, neither do cars. It's the person pulling the trigger or the driver with their speed & careless driving. Keep it Real. Sympathies to the hard working migrants that died, poor folks don't deserve such an ending.

[richard_smith237]

4 minutes ago, Tailwagsdog said:

Guns don't kill people, neither do cars. It's the person pulling the trigger or the driver with their speed & careless driving. Keep it Real.

 

Guns do kill people - thats the very purpose of their design - anyone carrying a gun does so with the knowledge that its use has lethal force. 

 

Conversely, vehicles were  designed under a completely different ideology, while they can have lethal force that is not their primary design. 

 

Using 'guns' as an analogy in this context is flawed at a very basic level - but I wouldn't expect 'pro-gun advocates' to comprehend this. 

 

 

4 minutes ago, Tailwagsdog said:

Sympathies to the hard working migrants that died, poor folks don't deserve such an ending.

 

100% agree here - its tragic that the poor did not have safer options of transport made available to them.

[soi3eddie]

Tragic and unnecessary loss of life. RIP. 

[Ralf001]

Yeah wow.

 

that aint good.

[Moonlover]

8 hours ago, KannikaP said:

It must have been going VERY fast to cause that sort of damage.

The damage we see here is more consistent with the vehicle flipping or rolling, rather than speed alone. Although to be fair speed is a factor in all traffic accidents.

 

I suspect that the roof was removed post accident in order to remove the victims. What a gruesome job that must have been.

[Moonlover]

2 hours ago, impulse said:

In the hierarchy of traffic dangers, I think riding a scooter is more dangerous than riding in the back of a pickup.  If you ban that, aren't you relegating them to an even more dangerous mode of transport?

 

It's certainly true that there a a lot more motorcycle deaths than any others on Thailand's roads. But at least when a motorcyclist looses it they usually only take themselves out and maybe a pillion.

 

Not themselves and six others!

[impulse]

15 minutes ago, Moonlover said:

It's certainly true that there a a lot more motorcycle deaths than any others on Thailand's roads. But at least when a motorcyclist looses it they usually only take themselves out and maybe a pillion.

 

Not themselves and six others!

 

To carry those 7 people on scooters, there would be 3-4x as many vehicles and 3-4x times the chance of a crash, and perhaps 10x (or more) the odds for someone to be killed.  On a per km basis, studies in the US and Aus show scooters to be 20-40x as dangerous as a 4 wheeler.  Even in the back of a pickup, you have a lot of steel.

 

Edited yesterday at 09:16 AM by impulse

[richard_smith237]

6 hours ago, impulse said:

 

In the hierarchy of traffic dangers, I think riding a scooter is more dangerous than riding in the back of a pickup.  If you ban that, aren't you relegating them to an even more dangerous mode of transport?

 

I wish everyone could afford 4 wheels, tons of steel and seatbelts.  But that's not the economic reality for most Thai people.  Cashed up expats are the ones who have a choice.

 

 

In perspective - thats a valid point...  more so when considering 75-80% of road fatalities here are motorcyclists. 

 

So, yes, the flat-bed of a pickup has to be safer...  its harder to fall off !!...

 

Your point regarding 'economic reality' is also highly valid - the same can be said of using Song Thaews for school busses etc....   

 

What are the alternatives ?....   Additionally, its not the modes of transport that are inherently unsafe, its the road users who fail to drive safely.