Woman Dies in Crash as Car Slams into Stationary Lorry on Bangkok Expressway

[Georgealbert]

 

Pictures from responders.

 

A 31-year-old woman was killed instantly and a male passenger seriously injured when a car crashed at high speed into the rear of a stationary six-wheeled lorry on a Bangkok expressway in the early hours of the morning of 6 April.

 

The crash occurred on the Chalerm Maha Nakhon Expressway, near the Thanon Tok exit in Khlong Toei district. Police from Expressway Station 1, along with rescue personnel and doctors from King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, rushed to the scene following reports of a severe collision.

 

Emergency responders discovered a white Isuzu lorry parked in the rightmost lane, with damage to the rear-left side. Nearby, a grey Chevrolet sedan, registration from Bangkok, was found with its front section completely destroyed. The windshield was shattered, and the roof had been torn open, exposing the interior of the vehicle.

 

The female driver, later identified as Ms. Chatrasamont, 31, was found deceased, her body trapped in the wreckage. Rescue crews used hydraulic tools to extract her body. She had suffered severe head trauma, chest injuries, and a broken arm.

 

A male passenger, seated in the front left seat, was seriously injured and transported to Theptarin Hospital for urgent medical care.

 

According to a worker who had been on the scene, the lorry had been parked since 22:00 for overnight road maintenance work. The team had placed orange traffic cones and activated hazard lights. At approximately 00:30, while they were packing up equipment after completing their work, the car approached at high speed, failed to brake, and slammed into the back of the lorry with a deafening crash.

 

Police are reviewing CCTV footage from the expressway and will wait for the injured man to recover, as they continue a full investigation into the cause of the crash.

 

-- 2025-04-07

 

 

[ozz1]

Dark night lorry  poorly lit and speed that's why

[bunnydrops]

2 hours ago, ozz1 said:

Dark night lorry  poorly lit and speed that's why

It's a bit hard to miss that arrow, but the truck should have been farther behind it.

[Moonlover]

37 minutes ago, bunnydrops said:

It's a bit hard to miss that arrow, but the truck should have been farther behind it.

The hazard arrow is fixed on the back of the truck, which a fairly standard practice. But still pretty hard to miss. I guess the driver was speeding along in the right hand lane as they so often do here.

 

The damage to the car suggests that the truck had no protection guard to prevent it from going under the rear. 3rd one I've seen on here recently.

[Liverpool Lou]

4 hours ago, ozz1 said:

Dark night lorry  poorly lit and speed that's why

There was no suggestion that anything other than driver inattention/speed was the causal factor.   The expressway is lit and nowhere was it reported that the lorry was "poorly lit" 

[Liverpool Lou]

Woman driver.

[PETERTHEEATER]

4 hours ago, Moonlover said:

The damage to the car suggests that the truck had no protection guard to prevent it from going under the rear. 3rd one I've seen on here recently.

A fair point but, practically, what form would such a 'guard' take?

[IsaanT]

21 minutes ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

A fair point but, practically, what form would such a 'guard' take?

Standard in Europe.
 

[PETERTHEEATER]

3 hours ago, IsaanT said:

Standard in Europe.
 

Thanks.  A retrofit of a guard to that standard - constructed to collapse in a controlled manner - applied to  chassis built in Thailand might well fail at the weakest point.  😋