One student killed and 22 injured in Nakhon Pathom road crash

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One student killed and 22 injured in road accident

NAKHON PATHIM: -- One student was killed and about 20 others injured when a song-thaew passenger truck in which they were travelling crashed into the rear of a parked six-wheel truck on Petkasem out-bound road in Nakhon Pathom this morning.

Eyewitnesses said that the driver of the song-thaew truck whose name was unknown engaged in a road race with another truck before he lost control and crashed the vehicle into the rear of a truck parked on the roadside kerb near the Nakhon Chaisri bridge.

The force of the collision tore apart the roof and body of the song-thaew and threw most of the students of Wat Narkprasit school out of the truck, killing one of the at the scene. 22 others were also injured whereas the driver escaped the scene.

It was reported that the students normally travelled to school in a passenger van. However, the van broke down this morning and the owner hired the song-thaew truck to take the students to the school.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/one-student-killed-22-injured-road-accident/

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[Bluespunk]

"It was reported that the students normally travelled to school in a passenger van. However, the van broke down this morning and the owner hired the song-thaew truck to take the students to the school."

Cutting corners and reducing costs. Should be partially held to account for supplying more dangerous mode of transport.

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Baht bus crash leaves 22 students injured and one dead

BANGKOK, 4 August 2014 (NNT) - This morning at 8:30, a baht bus carrying school students crashed into a six-wheeler truck at Petchkasem Road in Bangkok. Twenty two students were wounded and one of them died from injuries sustained in the accident.

Reports indicate that the baht bus was used as a replacement vehicle to carry students from the Wat Nakprasit School, as the school van had broken down and was undergoing maintenance. The impact of the crash caused the roof of the baht bus to be ripped off.

Police investigations confirm that the baht bus driver had been speeding and was earlier racing another vehicle, which caused the driver to lose control and crash into the truck. The driver escaped unharmed and fled the scene. Authorities are now doing whatever they can to pursue the driver in order to bring him to justice.

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[ginjag]

2 things here.

 

1  Fled the scene      what a bar steward.  I killed and the rest-----a NORMAL person would have been there to do what he could to help.

2  How many in a baht taxi  22.???

 

Local transport department----look into this, for gods sake stop the carnage, unless money is more valuable than life and pain  .

[Deacon Bell]

the driver of the song-thaew truck whose name was unknown engaged in a road race

 

 

 

 

fled the scene.

 

 

 

Stereotype, nice to meet you.

 

 

But of course a driver providing the duty of care of over 20 students while transporting them in the West is just as likely to be "racing another truck" while doing so.

 

[mrtoad]

"Fled the scene", how very predictable.

A sad waste of life caused by an idiot.

[daiwill60]

I used to be a teacher at this school , be careful what is said on here please. RIP and hope all others make a good recovery.  Shocking news. So sad.

[ozsamurai]

I live 100m from the crash scene, my son attends this school. I was passed by 5 ambulance on my return from dropping him off this morning.  It occurred in Samphran not Bangkok Sai 7.  early gossip on the scene indicated 5 student were admitted to ICU in Nakhon Pathom.  High praise was given to the students themselves who on their own, went out into the 4 lane highway to retrieve their classmates to carry them to safety.  Terrible all around and a dark day for the locals around here.

 

Oz

[aboctok]

 

the driver of the song-thaew truck whose name was unknown engaged in a road race

 

 

 

 

fled the scene.

 

 

 

Stereotype, nice to meet you.

 

 

But of course a driver providing the duty of care of over 20 students while transporting them in the West is just as likely to be "racing another truck" while doing so.

 

 

Thank you for saying so. Of course using a stereotype to judge anybody is completely unfair. As we all know, there are good people and bad people living in every country, and there are good drivers and bad drivers in every country too. Road accidents happen in all countries. I hope everybody can learn to understand this, and not use stereotypes to judge anybody.

[laurentbkk]

This is what the junta should do ..... take care of those careless drivers specially those driving students , kids etc .... in fact all drivers transporting people. Send them to driving courses .... and he fled the scene ..why am I not surprise ? another tragic accident which could be avoided with some common sense and a good practice in driving .

[ozsamurai]

btw, Samphran isn't that big.... all the local boys have found the driver and the police have arrested him.

 

Oz

[bkkjames]

btw, Samphran isn't that big.... all the local boys have found the driver and the police have arrested him.

 

Oz

 

Hope the kids in ICU pull through ok. 

[Just1Voice]

 

btw, Samphran isn't that big.... all the local boys have found the driver and the police have arrested him.

 

Oz

 

Hope the kids in ICU pull through ok. 

 

 

Hope the local boys gave him some "street justice" before handing him over.
 

[rethaier]

"It was reported that the students normally travelled to school in a passenger van. However, the van broke down this morning and the owner hired the song-thaew truck to take the students to the school."

Cutting corners and reducing costs. Should be partially held to account for supplying more dangerous mode of transport.

 

How do you get 21+ people in a song-thaew?  
 

[ginjag]

 

"It was reported that the students normally travelled to school in a passenger van. However, the van broke down this morning and the owner hired the song-thaew truck to take the students to the school."

Cutting corners and reducing costs. Should be partially held to account for supplying more dangerous mode of transport.

 

How do you get 21+ people in a song-thaew?  
 

 

Some are  ON top.  some hang from the back, the rest are in.

[ozsamurai]

Two kindergarten aged children were sitting in the front with the original bus driver on his lap, he managed to save them from injury. The boy who died was thrown from  the back of the vehicle onto the road.  The driver of the truck said he broke down last night and parked outside the repair shop to have the truck looked at today, he was in the cabin when the song thaew struck it in the middle, he is understandably very shaken over the images of the boys scattered on the road.

 

Oz

[KED]

Such a horrific accident, the best way to mourn the lost and injured is to determine the exact cause of the incident and then make sure it does not happen to anyone else.

[leggo]

Sterotypes my ass! The accident rate in Thailand is totally out of control and it is about time the government and police got serious - not a week goes by without a serious road accident and God knows how many schoolchildren have been involved. How dreadful for the parents. This guy should get ten years to set an example to other idiots like him - racing a songthaew full of school kids - how <deleted> moronic can it get!

[Bluespunk]

"It was reported that the students normally travelled to school in a passenger van. However, the van broke down this morning and the owner hired the song-thaew truck to take the students to the school."

Cutting corners and reducing costs. Should be partially held to account for supplying more dangerous mode of transport.

 
How do you get 21+ people in a song-thaew?  
 

No idea. Clearly not safe to do so though.

[Deacon Bell]

Sterotypes my ass! The accident rate in Thailand is totally out of control and it is about time the government and police got serious - not a week goes by without a serious road accident and God knows how many schoolchildren have been involved. How dreadful for the parents. This guy should get ten years to set an example to other idiots like him - racing a songthaew full of school kids - how <deleted> moronic can it get!

 

Don't Stereotype!

 

Thai drivers are the same everybody else!

 

Some race each other while transporting children. Happens everywhere.  
 

[Deacon Bell]

How do you get 21+ people in a song-thaew?  

 

You start by charging them money, then no other rules apply, sit on the bonnet lads if it will make another 5 baht.
 

[HeijoshinCool]

In all my time here, and all the accidents I've read about, not once, no never, has the driver hung around.

 

Unless, of course, he was dead.

 

 

[Captor]

 

 

the driver of the song-thaew truck whose name was unknown engaged in a road race

 

 

 

 

fled the scene.

 

 

 

Stereotype, nice to meet you.

 

 

But of course a driver providing the duty of care of over 20 students while transporting them in the West is just as likely to be "racing another truck" while doing so.

 

 

Thank you for saying so. Of course using a stereotype to judge anybody is completely unfair. As we all know, there are good people and bad people living in every country, and there are good drivers and bad drivers in every country too. Road accidents happen in all countries. I hope everybody can learn to understand this, and not use stereotypes to judge anybody.

 

Some countries have more bad drivers than other...

 

[Jeremy50]

 

Sterotypes my ass! The accident rate in Thailand is totally out of control and it is about time the government and police got serious - not a week goes by without a serious road accident and God knows how many schoolchildren have been involved. How dreadful for the parents. This guy should get ten years to set an example to other idiots like him - racing a songthaew full of school kids - how <deleted> moronic can it get!

 

Don't Stereotype!

 

Thai drivers are the same everybody else!

 

Some race each other while transporting children. Happens everywhere.  
 

 

You are joking or just plain stupid, . It doesn't happen everywhere, that is the whole point. If it did the UK would have 20 000 road deaths a year not  1500. Similar populations numbers but completely different driving mentality and law enforcement, vehicle safety etc. Thais are among the worst drivers in the world, everyone seems to know this except you! If they were great drivers I would be more than happy to point that out. I guess we all would.

 

[Carl64]

So sad.
Sad because there was another fatal accident .
Sad because it's ok to have unrestrained children in a school bus.
Sad that the pathetic driver ran away!!!!!!

[tingtongfarang]

After all this media hype about crackdowns and how the police will enforce the traffic laws i had hoped things would change just a little on the roads here in bkk,

 

Buses still stop in whichever lane they want rather than on the left at the bus stop,

 

Taxis vans and buses still race and weave through the traffic and use left turn only lanes to jump the others waiting in the correct lane,

 

Same amount of people jump red lights ....all vehicles,

 

Roads are still full of under age-unlicenced drivers,

 

Song thaews still crammed full of kids and hanging out the back,

 

Police still sit in their air conditioned boxes and on occasion set up road blocks,

 

The only change i have noticed is the odd police bike riding around clamping cars parked in no parking areas and motcycs getting into the habit of staying between the cars rather than infront of the white lines,

 

The road carnage stays the same.

 

 

 

 

[ozsamurai]

The day just gets worse with reports coming in now from local police that 4 more children that were rushed to the ICU in Nakhon Pathom have died.  Bringing the death toll to possibly 5 now, 2 more still in ICU. 

 

Oz

[danielbesangez]

Here are the deadliest countries with automobile accidents, along with the number of fatalities per 100,000 residents. Note that there's only one overlapping country, Malawi. ("Congo" refers to the Republic of the Congo, not the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is a completely separate country.)

1. Namibia (45)
2. Thailand (44)
3. Iran (38)
4. Sudan (36)
5. Swaziland (36)
6. Venezuela (35)
7. Congo (34)
8. Malawi (32)
9. Dominican Republic (32)
10. Iraq (32)

And the lowest fatality rates from auto accidents. Again, there's little overlap, other than Maldives:

184. Switzerland (5)
185. Netherlands (4)
186. Antigua and Barbuda (4)
187. Tonga (4)
188. Israel (4)
189. Marshall Islands (4)
190. Fiji (4)
191. Malta (3)
192. Tajikistan (3)
193. Maldives (2)

the answer is above ....

[Just1Voice]

 

Sterotypes my ass! The accident rate in Thailand is totally out of control and it is about time the government and police got serious - not a week goes by without a serious road accident and God knows how many schoolchildren have been involved. How dreadful for the parents. This guy should get ten years to set an example to other idiots like him - racing a songthaew full of school kids - how <deleted> moronic can it get!

 

Don't Stereotype!

 

Thai drivers are the same everybody else!

 

Some race each other while transporting children. Happens everywhere.  
 

 

 

Don't know much about the REAL WORLD outside of Thailand, do you? 

 

[Deacon Bell]

Happens everywhere.

 

Don't think so, go home.