One Dead As Empty Phuket Tour Bus Slams Into Tree

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One dead as empty Phuket tour bus slams into tree

Phuket Gazette

The bus driver, 45-year-old Kongklit Sriprom, from Udon Thani, died at the scene. Photo: Kritsada Mueanhawong

PHUKET: -- The driver of an empty tour bus died this afternoon after the bus he was driving overshot a curve near Ao Makham, on Phuket’s east coast, and slammed into a tree.

The driver was heading back to the operating company’s depot after dropping off Chinese tourists at the Laguna Phuket resort complex in Cherng Talay, said Maj Sakon Kamlaithong of Phuket City Police.

“We received a report of the accident at 4:40pm… The driver was heading back to the garage of the Vision Transport company, which is located in a sidestreet near the Kamlai Thong boxing stadium, about two kilometers from where the accident happened,” he told the Phuket Gazette.

“The driver was 45-year-old Kongklit Sriprom, from Udon Thani province. He was the only person on the bus. He died at the scene,” Maj Sakon added.

Usana Inmuang, a 36-year-old teacher at the Ao Makham Child Development Center, escaped injury after swerving to avoid the oncoming bus, forcing her Toyota Soluna sedan into a roadside ditch.

Police have yet to announce any theories as to why the accident occurred.

Source: http://www.phuketgaz...tree-19181.html

-- Phuket Gazette 2012-10-16

[Soupdragon]

Bad week to be a bus on Phuket.

[Payboy]

dam_n trees, grow up so fast.

[asiawatcher]

Expected - many Thai's buy a license and there are very few training schools that I have seen for heavy vehicles.

[masaomi]

Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish! He deserves it! You have no idea how many times I have to avoid these road bullies. They just barge in like they are King of the road! If you don't give way, your car definitely will spend time in the workshop! That is if you don't spend time in the hospital first! They are real social pariahs!

[transam]

Lucky Chinese.

[Jambo]

Im just really glad no-one else was killed.

[sunshine51]

The bus wasn't empty...there was a driver in it...and the bus

was apparently in motion...badly worded headline.

If the bus was actually empty then the traffic cops could blame

the wreck on the tree for having jumped in the way of a parked

bus.

[Guest]

The bus wasn't empty...there was a driver in it...and the bus

was apparently in motion...badly worded headline.

If the bus was actually empty then the traffic cops could blame

the wreck on the tree for having jumped in the way of a parked

bus.

For once that was an good headline. It did describe the situation well.

[Nordicdolphin]

Do they speed limiter in the buses and trucks here, like they do in Europe. If not maybe it is about time to get it installed along with a recording device so we can can get rid of the yaba smoking idiots in the right lane who have absolutely no respect for people's lives.....and yes that goes for the drivers of the minibuses too......

[supaprik]

The bus wasn't empty...there was a driver in it...and the bus

was apparently in motion...badly worded headline.

If the bus was actually empty then the traffic cops could blame

the wreck on the tree for having jumped in the way of a parked

bus.

For once that was an good headline. It did describe the situation well.

describes it very well for NON English speakers!!

[supaprik]

no runners this time either

[kerrysum]

Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish! He deserves it! You have no idea how many times I have to avoid these road bullies. They just barge in like they are King of the road! If you don't give way, your car definitely will spend time in the workshop! That is if you don't spend time in the hospital first! They are real social pariahs!

It has been this way for years, nothing has changed has it?

Kerry