Accident Man Killed After Car Slams into Parked Truck in Phuket

[Georgealbert]

 

Picture courtesy of Khaosod.

 

A 55-year-old man has died in a crash after his Honda City sedan ploughed into the rear of a parked 22-wheeled truck in Phuket in the early hours of morning of 25 April.

 

The incident occurred at approximately 01:50 on Chalermprakiat Rama 9 Road inbound to Phuket Town, in Ratsada Subdistrict. Police Lieutenant Saruta Phumduang, an investigator at Muang Phuket Police Station, responded to the call alongside doctors from Vachira Phuket Hospital and local emergency services.

 

 

At the scene  a large truck with Chumphon plates was found parked on the roadside. The heavily damaged white Honda City, registered in Phuket, had collided with the back of the truck and remained lodged beneath it.

 

The driver of the sedan, identified as Mr. Preecha, 55, was found dead behind the wheel, slumped toward the passenger seat. He had suffered severe head trauma and facial injuries. Notably, the car’s speedometer was frozen at 180 km/h, raising suspicions that the vehicle may have been travelling at high speed at the time of impact.

The lorry driver, Mr. Somporn, 52, was uninjured and remained at the scene. He told police the truck had been legally parked at the roadside.

 

An eyewitness, Mr. Khajornsak, 31, who had been driving a pickup truck recounted: “I was driving along the road and saw the car come out of a side road at high speed. Not long after, there was a massive crash, it just went straight into the truck, like it didn’t try to swerve or brake.”

 

Authorities transferred Mr. Preecha’s body to Vachira Hospital for a detailed post-mortem examination. Police are continuing to investigate the exact cause of the crash and will review CCTV footage from the surrounding area.

 

 

  Adapted by Asean Now from Khaosod 2025-04-25.

 

 

 

 

 

[Tropicalevo]

[Gottfrid]

One after another are driving in to parked vehicles. Think they need to start count chromosomes.

[CMFarang]

Amazing Drivers impacting parked Trucks. 

Between that or ending up in a Water Feature , It seems a daily multiple occurrence..

Many, here in Chiang Mai drive on the shoulder of the highway,  at about 25% of the speed limit. Not fast enough to do a lot of damage , so I don't believe that was the cause.

Hmmm.

A Honda City capable of 180. I'm sort of bewildered and impressed at the same time. What the driver was doing sounds self inflicted to me.

 

[richard_smith237]

1 minute ago, CMFarang said:

A Honda City capable of 180. I'm sort of bewildered and impressed at the same time. What the driver was doing sounds self inflicted to me.

 

The car was never doing 180 kmh - the force of impact threw / dislodged the needle in the speedo, thats all..

I've seen this numerous times on news reports here in Thailand where the 'final speed' is reported from the stuck-needle (speedo) and doing so is flawed at a very simple and basic level. 

 

3 minutes ago, CMFarang said:

Amazing Drivers impacting parked Trucks. 

 

I'm astonished at the amount of crashes with stationary objects there are here in Thailand - its as if people become so complacent when driving they don't feel they need to look ahead where they are going.

 

I've excited numerous taxi's mid journey because the driver refuses to stop watching a video on the phone he's placed on the dash...   So many drivers here seem not to understand the risks they place themselves and others at with carelessness.

[ChrisY1]

Never seen so many rear end smashes into parked trucks, as here in Thailand. Every week at least one or more that are actually reported.