Malaysian Tourist’s Car Crashes into Fruit Cart and Shops in Songkhla, Injuring Two

[Georgealbert]

 

Pictures from responders.

 

A car driven by a Malaysian tourist lost control and crashed into a fruit vendor’s sidecar cart, before ploughing into three roadside shops in Songkhla’s Sadao district, leaving two people injured.

 

Police Colonel Surachit Phetjom, superintendent of Sadao Police Station, received a report of the crash, which occurred on Kanjanavanich Road in front of Wat Sri Vites Sangkaram School in Samnak Kham subdistrict, Sadao district.

 

Upon arriving at the scene with investigators and emergency responders, authorities found a white car bearing Malaysian license plate lodged inside a stationery shop. The crash caused damage to the car, the shop’s entrance, and two adjacent shops. A fruit-laden motorcycle sidecar was also damaged and left lying on the road.

 

The crash injured two people:

 

• Ms. Mashirat Perkliang, 27, the fruit vendor and sidecar owmer, sustained injuries, including a fractured arm and severe facial bruising. She was found unconscious at the scene.

 

• Mr. David Yoong Wei Ming, 42, the Malaysian driver of the car, suffered head injuries and a broken nose.

 

Eyewitnesses reported that the Malaysian vehicle was travelling at high speed when it struck the fruit vendor’s sidecar, propelling her onto the road. The car then veered off course and crashed into the roadside shops, damaging three businesses.

 

Emergency responders from Samnak Kham transported the injured to Sadao Hospital for treatment.

 

Police are collecting evidence and interviewing witnesses to determine the cause of the crash. Legal proceedings against the driver are expected to follow.

 

 

-- 2025-01-06

 

[Tropicalevo]

I hope that the driver had the correct insurance for driving in Thailand.

[black tabby12345]

4 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

I hope that the driver had the correct insurance for driving in Thailand.

 

Or having big enough wallet to pay off all of his accidental debt.

[black tabby12345]

Border-hopping sex tourist(?) now ended up with heaps of bills to pay off.

Happy holiday turned out to be his nightmare...

[hotchilli]

8 hours ago, Georgealbert said:

Eyewitnesses reported that the Malaysian vehicle was travelling at high speed when it struck the fruit vendor’s sidecar, propelling her onto the road. The car then veered off course and crashed into the roadside shops, damaging three businesses.

This is going to cost him big time... or insurance company if he has one.

[Burma Bill]

9 hours ago, Georgealbert said:

crashed into a fruit vendor’s sidecar cart

 

The car driver certainly "upset the apple cart"!!

 

Reference (Google)-

 

This expression started out as upset the cart , used since Roman times to mean “spoil everything.” The precise idiom dates from the late 1700s.