17 Chinese tourists injured in bus crash

[Thaivisa News]

Pattaya, Chon Buri:- A chartered bus taking 17 Chinese tourists from Koh Samet to Nongnuch Garden in Pattaya overturned injuring them Sunday afternoon, police said.

Pol Lt Nawapol Benchamas, an officer on duty of Pattaya police station, was informed of the accident at 2 pm Sunday. He was told that a bus overturned and crashed into a roadside of the Pattaya-bound Krathing Lai-Rayong Road in Moo 10 village in Tambon Pong of Chon Buri’s Bang Lamung district.

Police and rescuers from the Sawang Buribun Thammasathan Pattaya Foundation rushed to the scene and they found a small white bus of TWB Co with Bangkok license plate overturned on the left roadside.

They found eight Chinese men and nine Chinese woman injured along with a Thai driver. Most of them suffered bruises while three women were severely injured at their back and neck.

The rescuers provided them first-aid treatment and rushed them to the Bangkok Pattaya Hospital.

The driver, Kachornsak Puangprakhone, 43, said he was driving the tourists from Koh Samet in Rayong to the Nongnuch Garden in Pattaya and when he arrived at the scene, it rained heavily, making it hard for him to see the road ahead.

As a result, he tried to step on the brake to slow down the bus but the road was slippery, causing the bus to spin before it overturned and fell to the roadside.

Kachornsak said he led all the tourists to leave the bus through broken windows and called police for help.

Police blamed the heavy rains and the slippery road for the accident.

[Cylon]

Why not stop if you cant see the road ahead ?????

[Lee4Life]

I feel bad for the tourists, that's a miserable thing to have happen even when not on a trip. One thing about it...instead running off the driver showed some responsibility. Yeah...I know, he shouldn't have crashed the bus in the first place!

[simon43]

Police blamed the heavy rains and the slippery road for the accident.

Ah, so the driver who was not driving appropriately for the road conditions was entirely innocent then?

[siam2007]

Police blamed the heavy rains and the slippery road for the accident.

Ah, so the driver who was not driving appropriately for the road conditions was entirely innocent then?

Exactly.

That is the conclusion.

Nothing wrong with that, the Thai police only applied THAINESS, so why blame them ?