Pilgrimage turns Deadly after Bus Plunges into Ravine, Bus crash near border kills 16

[geovalin]

Khmer Times/Pav Suy

PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) – Sixteen people were killed and another 23 injured – many seriously – after the bus they were in veered off a road and plunged into a ravine in Oddar Meanchey province yesterday morning, a district official in the northwestern province said.

The passengers were residents of Phnom Penh who had visited a temple in the mountainous area along the border with Thailand, Anlong Veng district chief Hor Chun Vireak told Khmer Times.

“They had made offerings and received blessings from monks at a temple before the accident,” he said.

read more: http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14397/pilgrimage-turns-deadly-after-bus-plunges-into-ravine/

[geovalin]

Bus crash near border kills 16

Thu, 13 August 2015

Cheang Sokha

At least 16 people died and 23 more were injured on Thursday when a bus careened down an embankment near the Thai border as its transmission and brakes failed, according to police.

Hing Theung, police chief of Trapaing Prey commune in Oddar Meanchey’s Anlong Veng district, said the private bus from Phnom Penh, filled largely with elderly women, flipped over after crossing the border back into Cambodia via the Choam Sa-ngam border checkpoint.

“It was the failure of the gears of the bus,” he said, adding that the accident occurred at about 11:20am near Dangrek Mountain.

read more: http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bus-crash-near-border-kills-16

[slerickson]

Bus crash

“It was the failure of the gears of the bus,” he said, adding that the accident occurred at about 11:20am near Dangrek Mountain.

read more: http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bus-crash-near-border-kills-16

So where was God or the Buddha?

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Bus crash near Thai border kills 16



PHNOM PENH: -- In one of Cambodia's largest death toll from road accidents, at least 16 people died and 23 more were injured on Thursday when a bus careened down an embankment near the Thai border as its transmission and brakes failed, The Phnom Penh Post reported.

Hing Theung, police chief of Trapaing Prey commune in Oddar Meanchey’s Anlong Veng district, said the private bus from Phnom Penh, filled largely with elderly women, flipped over after crossing the border back into Cambodia via the Choam Sa-ngam border checkpoint in the accident that occurred at about 11.20am.

Twelve people died at the scene while four others died from their injuries at the local hospital. Another 23 remain hospitalized, with some in critical conditions.

The death toll is the nation’s largest since a deadly crash in Svay Rieng in May, which saw 18 garment workers killed as the minivan in which they were travelling collided head on with a speeding bus.

According to the Ministry of Interior’s Department of Order, 1,229 people were killed and another 4,090 injured in the first half of 2015.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/bus-crash-near-thai-border-kills-16


-- Thai PBS 2015-08-14

[catterwell]

Some of those roads in the Dangrek mountain range are pretty hairy; the last time I was up there was in a well-serviced 4WD Toyota Land Cruiser.

[canopus1969]

Seems the Cambodians buy their buses at the same dealership as the Thais do

[Borzandy]

Cambodia like Thailand, the same third word country.

[sprq]

Sadly, a rather common third world pleasure trip.

[Travelman868]

Bus crash near Thai border kills 16

PHNOM PENH: -- In one of Cambodia's largest death toll from road accidents, at least 16 people died and 23 more were injured on Thursday when a bus careened down an embankment near the Thai border as its transmission and brakes failed, The Phnom Penh Post reported.

Hing Theung, police chief of Trapaing Prey commune in Oddar Meanchey’s Anlong Veng district, said the private bus from Phnom Penh, filled largely with elderly women, flipped over after crossing the border back into Cambodia via the Choam Sa-ngam border checkpoint in the accident that occurred at about 11.20am.

Twelve people died at the scene while four others died from their injuries at the local hospital. Another 23 remain hospitalized, with some in critical conditions.

The death toll is the nation’s largest since a deadly crash in Svay Rieng in May, which saw 18 garment workers killed as the minivan in which they were travelling collided head on with a speeding bus.

According to the Ministry of Interior’s Department of Order, 1,229 people were killed and another 4,090 injured in the first half of 2015.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/bus-crash-near-thai-border-kills-16

-- Thai PBS 2015-08-14

The brakes have nothing to do with the transmission !!!! Driving too fast or fell asleep

[lvr181]

The "gears failure"?? Where did the driver learn his/her skills? Before they at started school? Try using the brakes OR drive slower for the conditions.

RIP to those killed and condolences to their families.

[Maggusoil]

The stories get more fantastic. For this tragedy the brakes and the gears failed at the same time.

[Traveling Sailor]

The "gears failure"?? Where did the driver learn his/her skills? Before they at started school? Try using the brakes OR drive slower for the conditions.

RIP to those killed and condolences to their families.

So the Thai excuse is "brakes" and the Cambodian excuse is "gears". I wonder what the standard excuse is in Burma.

[Tomtomtom69]

The standard excuse in Burma is bad luck and a haunted road (on the Yangon-Mandalay expressway) even though that road has a zillion times fewer accidents than any Thai or Cambodian road due to the low traffic volume and ban on trucks and motorcycles traveling that road.

[Sheryl]

And in all 3 countries, don't forget the spirits.

Hence the little roadside shrines at sharp curves and the like. To propiate the spirits assumed to have caused fatal accidents that took place there.