Couple die in bike smash

CHALONG: An American visitor from Bangkok and her partner have died in a motorbike accident at Chalong.

Mary Susan Crosland, 52, and Cha Paen Anukul, also 52, were killed around 10 am on Tuesday, when the motorbike K. Cha was driving, with Ms Crosland riding behind, failed to take a curve near Chao Fa Thani village.

The couple lived in Bangkok and were visiting Phuket on holiday.

Pol Capt Wichan Suwannasit of Chalong Police Station told the Gazette both had died at the scene from broken necks.

Both bodies are at Wachira Phuket Hospital. Ms Crosland’s relatives are due in Phuket shortly to collect her body. Police are still trying to contact K. Cha’s family.

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The Phuket Gazette

11:50 local time (GMT +7)

Poor buggers , those coast roads around Phuket are amongst the most dangerous I've been on...

10am aswell.. Poor old souls, will not have been intoxicated like a lot of the 2 wheeler casualties.

Poor buggers  , those coast roads around Phuket are amongst the most dangerous I've been on...

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Chonabot - the Chao Fa roads (East and West) are nowhere near the coast and don't have any really sharp bends. I drive them every day. You'd have to be going f***ing fast not to take any curve.

Of course, Chao Fa Thani village may not be on the Chao Fa roads, and it would be helpful if anyone could pin point where it is.

The reason I was so angry when I first posted here - and subsequently edited this post - was because I had a mental picture of an middle aged American woman following her middle aged Thai "partner" on bikes that were too big for them and going too da.mn fast. And now they are both dead of broken necks.