Two passengers killed, ten injured in bus accident in Nakhon Phanom

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Two passengers killed and ten injured in bus accident

BANGKOK: -- Two passengers were killed and ten others injured, including listed in serious condition, when a mini bus skidded out of a road and rammed into a tree in Nakhon Phanom province yesterday morning.

Police said that the bus driver, 51-year old Nirun Faramee, escaped unscratched and is being held in police custody for interrogation.

The accident occurred at a spot about 16 kilometres from That Phanom district on highway No 212 between That Phanom and Muk Dahan.
It was reported that the mini bus was heading for Nakhon Phanom with 12 passengers on board.

Upon approaching the scene of the accident which was a curve, the bus skidded out of the road which was slippery at the time from rains, ploughed into a tree before turning one side up and continued sliding until it rammed into the second tree.

Two passengers were thrown out of the vehicle by the force of the impact and killed. The rest of the passengers were injured with two of them seriously injured. They were eventually rushed to Somdet Yupparaj hospital in That Phanom district by rescue workers.

The driver claimed that he drove the vehicle at only 90 kilometres per hour and blamed the slippery road for the accident. However, police said they would question him further.

Mr Yodpetch Kamsaengdee, the provincial highway official, said motorists had been warned regularly to drive with caution on the road in question because it is narrow and without road shoulders but often busy.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/content/147905


-- Thai PBS 2016-01-25

[KMartinHandyman]

The government should double wrap all of the trees along highways to help support the rubber farmers.

[EricBerg]

Sadly it's nothing new with Thai traffic. A full blown war would have less victims. For long years now nothing changes. The value of life must be low in the Kingdom. So frustrating.

[tracker1]

Yeah I was only going slow ! it was that dam slippery road when will they ever if ever learn to drive to conditions !!!!!!!

[NongKhaiKid]

Yeah I was only going slow ! it was that dam slippery road when will they ever if ever learn to drive to conditions !!!!!!!

Exactly but it doesn't really matter too much as Thai drivers have ' An Excuse for All Seasons '.

[onetime]

Yeah I was only going slow ! it was that dam slippery road when will they ever if ever learn to drive to conditions !!!!!!!

Good question! Probably right after they have that operation where the doctor pulls their head from their ass, cause common sense ain't that common here.

[Confuscious]

Kill (murder) persons and injure 10 others, with 2 seriously, and walk free.

Share a message on FaceBook or any Social Media and get 18 years in high-security jail.

TIT, land of the "free".

[CarolJadzia]

Oh for a little bit of training.

Just simple stuff like how to brake in the wet and the difference between busses and cars when trying to stop.

But TiT! Just buy a licence and off you go. Third bus on the left, instruction manuals under the seat.

[SOTIRIOS]

...mini bus...or van.....

...here we go....let's NOT give it straight.....

[Pattaya28]

"Slippery-Road" excuse

Pathetic !!

If the driver was travelling, not at 90 KPH but 40-50 KPH, would the accident have occurred ? Probably not.

[jimstar1]

The government should double wrap all of the trees along highways to help support the rubber farmers.

Yes Poor trees got to protect from T T Thai Van drivers Oh I have Become a tree Hugger back to the Leo

[hansnl]

Maybe it is time to rethink the minibus thing.

Too many idiots manning these things.

Bring back the normal buses and please put on TRAINED drivers.

[springheeled jack]

the driver said he was only driving at 90 kilometres an hour on roads affected by rain that is far too fast there must have been warning signs in place which he obviously didn't see adverse camber conditions usually prevail after rain.

[sawadee1947]

Not even ONE single day without deaths on those killing field? (Thailands roads)

[ratcatcher]

Maybe it is time to rethink the minibus thing.

Too many idiots manning these things.

Bring back the normal buses and please put on TRAINED drivers.

Unfortunately it wasn't a "mini bus thing" that crashed, but rather a regular bus. Story & picture available if you Google the headline and then go to the website of the newspaper that can be trusted but doesn't like to be quoted here..

This TVF report was from PBS, the broadcaster you can sometimes trust..

The 51 year old driver says he was doing 90kp/h on a wet and winding road. That might be OK in a Porsche but in a Thai bus it has disaster written all over it.

[manfredtillmann]

this is a bad stretch of road, one lane each way, undulating and lots of traffic incl. trucks carrying pebbles and sand. several small towns along the way, also the turn off to 'kaeng ka bao' rapids resort.

it needs upgrading urgently!

[seajae]

and how much tread is on those tyres, they look pretty well worn from the pic. Doing 90-k on a bad corner in the wet is simply asking to crash let alone doing it in a bus with crappy tyres, these idiots have no idea how to drive safely, it is simply a matter of getting to the destination as fast as possible. The driver and the bus company should be charged with manslaughter, the bus company made to bring their buses up to scratch and to have their drivers made to do proper driving education. This should be enforced on all of the thai transport industry, it is the only way to slow down all these needless deaths.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Death de jour...

[natway09]

Here we go again,,, Thailand,,, unfortunately everyday ,,

[swerver]

and how much tread is on those tyres, they look pretty well worn from the pic. Doing 90-k on a bad corner in the wet is simply asking to crash let alone doing it in a bus with crappy tyres, these idiots have no idea how to drive safely, it is simply a matter of getting to the destination as fast as possible. The driver and the bus company should be charged with manslaughter, the bus company made to bring their buses up to scratch and to have their drivers made to do proper driving education. This should be enforced on all of the thai transport industry, it is the only way to slow down all these needless deaths.

"getting to the destination as fast as possible"

In the aviation field in my time we called that "DETINATION FIXATION". Caused and still causes lots of aviation accidents.

Thai people are imbued with that, fed to them starting with their mothers' milk.

[Emster23]

Let's see a re-enactment, with him driving until he does hit speed that sends him off road. Wouldn't be that hard to water the road and get similar conditions. Those tires do look like "slicks" used for drag racing. Company has them as misunderstood that "slicks" meant "good for when roads are wet".

[Asiantravel]

Maybe it is time to rethink the minibus thing.

Too many idiots manning these things.

Bring back the normal buses and please put on TRAINED drivers.

http://driving-in-thailand.com/accidents-involving-minivans/

[Ombra]

and how much tread is on those tyres, they look pretty well worn from the pic. Doing 90-k on a bad corner in the wet is simply asking to crash let alone doing it in a bus with crappy tyres, these idiots have no idea how to drive safely, it is simply a matter of getting to the destination as fast as possible. The driver and the bus company should be charged with manslaughter, the bus company made to bring their buses up to scratch and to have their drivers made to do proper driving education. This should be enforced on all of the thai transport industry, it is the only way to slow down all these needless deaths.

The drivers are rightly blamed, but the greedy owners who run poorly-maintained vehicles and who pressurize the drivers into completing their journeys as fast as possible should also be punished.

[Nobb]

Did they drug test the driver? And even if they did can we believe the answer. The answer is no because Thailand is full of these bus accident with passengers killed and injured. They do not want the rest of the world to really see how dangerous it is to travel in Thailand. I quote a beautiful post card but very deadly!

[ratcatcher]

and how much tread is on those tyres, they look pretty well worn from the pic. Doing 90-k on a bad corner in the wet is simply asking to crash let alone doing it in a bus with crappy tyres, these idiots have no idea how to drive safely, it is simply a matter of getting to the destination as fast as possible. The driver and the bus company should be charged with manslaughter, the bus company made to bring their buses up to scratch and to have their drivers made to do proper driving education. This should be enforced on all of the thai transport industry, it is the only way to slow down all these needless deaths.

"getting to the destination as fast as possible"

In the aviation field in my time we called that "DETINATION FIXATION". Caused and still causes lots of aviation accidents.

Thai people are imbued with that, fed to them starting with their mothers' milk.

I think this guy may actually have a "DETONATION FIXATION", rather than any pilot.

[manfredtillmann]

and how much tread is on those tyres, they look pretty well worn from the pic. Doing 90-k on a bad corner in the wet is simply asking to crash let alone doing it in a bus with crappy tyres, these idiots have no idea how to drive safely, it is simply a matter of getting to the destination as fast as possible. The driver and the bus company should be charged with manslaughter, the bus company made to bring their buses up to scratch and to have their drivers made to do proper driving education. This should be enforced on all of the thai transport industry, it is the only way to slow down all these needless deaths.

the trip from mukdahan to that phanom is thb 100 or so. it needs to be that little because all people riding this bus are on thb 250 / day income. all this talk about charging bus companies or drivers, enforcing this or that... this is isaan, the back world. things are not the same here.

the same trip would have cost 100 times as much in australia - and perhaps would have been 100 times safer.

[Pattaya28]

Maybe it is time to rethink the minibus thing.

Too many idiots manning these things.

Bring back the normal buses and please put on TRAINED drivers.

"TRAINED drivers"

Are you living on this planet ?

[kimamey]

Sounds like going too fast for the conditions plus not wearing seat belts.

[manfredtillmann]

Sounds like going too fast for the conditions plus not wearing seat belts.

these busses do not have seatbelts in any usable condition.

[Peterphuket]

Maybe it is time to rethink the minibus thing.

Too many idiots manning these things.

Bring back the normal buses and please put on TRAINED drivers.

Unfortunately it wasn't a "mini bus thing" that crashed, but rather a regular bus. Story & picture available if you Google the headline and then go to the website of the newspaper that can be trusted but doesn't like to be quoted here..

This TVF report was from PBS, the broadcaster you can sometimes trust..

The 51 year old driver says he was doing 90kp/h on a wet and winding road. That might be OK in a Porsche but in a Thai bus it has disaster written all over it.

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Yeh, 90 km/ph, and you believe him? I'm not surprised when it was 120, who can prove it? Without mandatory tachometer.