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Minivan Hits High Voltage Electric Pole Bursts Into Flames – updated with video

Story by Albert Jack

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PATTAYA: At 3am on the morning of Sunday July 10 police and firefighters were called to road accident close to the Huay Yai Temple on Sukhumvit Road, just south of Jomtien.

A bronze Toyota Commuter had smashed into a high voltage electricity pole which then collapsed onto the vehicle. Live cables were torn out and scattered over an area of two-hundred meters causing huge fires.

Rescue workers struggled in heavy rain to contain and then put out the flames.

The driver, fifty-eight year old Mana Pinyophong, has told officers he was returning home from a party and lost control of his vehicle in the pouring rain. He said it slid sideways across the road before hitting the pole.

Full story: http://pattayaone.net/pattaya-news/227063/minivan-hits-electric-pole-bursts-flames/

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-- Pattaya One 2016-07-10

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3.00am, pouring rain, possibly a speeding and

somewhat sleepy driver are surely a recipe for disaster.

fortunately the pole broke the speed. saving the driver.

collision with other moving traffic could have resulted

in more grave consequences.

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Near the end of the footage after the fire had gone out the blasted minibus looks like a trolley bus . There is even a hook at the top of the pole. Anyway one less minibus on the road , pi$$ed driver will have to go to his next party by scooter.

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....so the lame excuse was enough to get off 'scott free'....

...wonder how much they would have charged a foreigner in the same predicament....

...1 million baht or so to have the pole replaced...etc...???

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yeah, absolute new that a car can slide and there is anything like aqua planing. Good to know. I will remember...55555.

Of course the driver is innocent.

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