Pictures courtesy of Thaich8 and responders.

 

A road crash on the morning of 4 June, left 19 schoolchildren injured after a cement truck collided with a school van in Sri Maha Phot district of Prachinburi province.

 

The incident occurred around 08:00, at a notorious junction near Ban Nong Hai-Ban Nong Man Pla Road, close to the Phase 7 industrial estate in Hua Wa subdistrict. CCTV footage captured the harrowing moment when a school van, driving on the main road and passing through a flashing-light intersection, was struck from the side by an oncoming cement truck that reportedly failed to brake in time. The force of the collision caused the van to overturn.

 

Emergency responders rushed to the scene, where they found the van lying on its side by the roadside and the cement truck, with a damaged front bumper, stopped nearby. Rescue workers quickly extracted the injured students, who were primarily between kindergarten and Mathayom, providing first aid before transporting them to Sri Maha Phot Hospital. Many of the children were visibly shaken, with some of the younger ones in tears.

The van was transporting 19 students from Ban Rabo Phai to Thewarak School in Sri Mahosot district when the crash occurred. Ms Nit Chitchamnong, 59, the school van driver, stated that she was driving normally along the usual route when the cement truck suddenly emerged from the side road and struck the van, causing it to overturn.

 

“I was driving on the main road, just as always. When I passed the flashing-light intersection, the cement truck came out of nowhere and hit us,” Ms Nit recounted.

 

Mr Namchok Plangthong 29, the cement truck driver, claimed that he saw the school van approaching and had already begun slowing down from an incline. However, he alleged the van driver did not stop at the intersection and he was unable to brake in time.

 

Parents, upon hearing the news, rushed to the scene in panic to check on their children. Some were visibly distressed and vocally angry at the cement truck driver.

Authorities are continuing their investigation into the cause of the accident and reviewing CCTV footage as part of the process. Fortunately, no life-threatening injuries have been reported.

 

  Adapted by Asean Now from Thaich8 2025-06-04

 

 

 

 

Driving education, drugs and lack of enforcing traffic rules... who is to be blamed??

This was posted on local Facebook groups and shows the CCTV footage.

To me it looks like both drivers are to blame 50/50

Only two vehicles on the road, and both failed to give way/slow down/stop for each other.

Both just carried on assuming the other would stop, then bang!