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

Story by Albert Jack

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/

-- Pattaya One 2016-07-10

It was raining, good enough excuse in LOS.

In other words he was drunk.!

Returning home from a party! In other words, drunk as a skunk.

It looks like it happened not because of the rain but someone moved the road.

Did the cops ask him to inflate a party balloon for them???

In other words he was drunk.!

No he was just driving in the usual safe fashion for Thai Drivers / Riders . Totally normal

Edited July 10, 20169 yr by onemorechang

Same shit different day,,,,

That deserves a lottery ticket. Mini Van driver competence test, "How fast can you run after an accident."

Would never happen if the cables were underground, Ha Ha.

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.

Driving on a road sometimes the vehicle just decides alone to go sideways ,a natural phenomenon in thailand

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.

....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...???

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.

Nothing like using water to put out a gas and electric fire.....

The big bus from now on.

Even these are not trustable.... sigh

Bronze is not a colour favoured by fleet owners so was this a privately registered minibus?

They thing they own the road. Mini vans are the most dangerous trasport to travel with .

They thing they own the road. Mini vans are the most dangerous trasport to travel with .

+1

Dont do it.

It's kind of odd how a vehicle that "slid across the road sideways" seems to have hit a light pole head on!