12 migrant workers dumped in Phuket road when pick-up flips
Eakkapop Thongtub


The driver of the pick-truck said that a trailer it was towing became unbalanced and this caused it to flip.

PHUKET: -- Twelve Myanmar migrant workers were taken to Thalang Hospital this morning (July 23) after the vehicle they were being transported in crashed and flipped on Thepkassattri Rd in Baan Muang Mai.

At 8am, Thalang police and Kusoldharm rescue workers were called to the scene of an accident on the northbound side of Thepkassattri Rd where a Chevrolet truck had flipped on its side dumping the passengers in the back into the road.

Police have stated that the pick-up missed the bend and lost control causing the trailer and backhoe it was towing to also flip and the 12 people to be thrown out from the back.

All 12 workers were taken to Thalang Hospital with minor injuries.

The truck driver, Wisut Chuayprakhong, 46, from Trang told police that he had picked up the workers from a workerʼs camp and was heading to a work site in Mai Khao.

“The trailer became unbalanced and flipped the truck,” Wisut siad.

Police took the truck, trailer, backhole and Mr Wisut to Thalang Police Station. No charges have yet been filed against Mr Wisut.

Late last month, two migrant workers were killed and 27 injured when the six-wheeler truck they were being trasported in crashed on the Nayak bend at the top of Nakalay Hill.

According to the Thai Land Traffic Act 1979 Section 20, a driver is responsible for not letting his passengers, animals, or loads to fall, leak, give out smell, reflect light, etc, which may cause harm or danger to the public.

After a spate of accidents in recent week, The Phuket News is calling for taffic laws to be enforced to stop accidents like to two mentioned above from happening.

Source: http://www.thephuketnews.com/12-migrant-workers-dumped-in-phuket-road-when-pick-up-flips-53322.php

-- Phuket News 2015-07-23

“The trailer became unbalanced and flipped the truck,” Wisut siad.

cause you were speeding, you ignoramous ...

I wonder if the trailer was even licenced and approved. You don't see many (legal) trailers here in Thailand because of the licence requirements.

"All 12 workers were taken to Thalang Hospital with minor injuries"

I call BS.

Would love to see a follow up by Phuket News. I'll be happy to eat crow if I'm wrong.

“The trailer became unbalanced and flipped the truck,” yeah, as if it was a sentinet being that just decided that by itself.

Poorly loaded trailer at a guess, minimum of 10% preferably a little more of the total trailer weight should be on the draw bar / tow hitch. I'd bet the back hoe was "put on" without a second thought and this is the result.

A trailer with a backhoe could easily flip that pickup. It shouldn't be pulling it at all. If there isn't a touch more weight on the tongue - in front of the trailer wheels - than there is behind the trailer wheels the back of the trailer will start swinging back and forth and the whole thing will eventually jack-knife. The tail starts wagging the dog. This is why semi trailers work so well. The front of the trailer is on the tractor and the wheels of the trailer are all the way back.

A pickup really isn't strong enough to carry enough tongue weight to fully stabilize the trailer or to stop the trailer from swinging back and forth if it's loaded wrong. The stupidity is in putting people in the back of the pickup while pulling that trailer at all.

Cheers.

12 people sitting / standing on a trailer.

And I got fined THB 500 for not wearing a seat belt...

OK, I am not from Myanmar...

I feel sorry for these migrant workers, they are so badly treated...