Driver dead but passenger survives Sattahip horror crash

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Driver dead but passenger survives Sattahip horror crash

 

Image: Daily News

 

SATTAHIP: -- Dramatic pictures show the aftermath of a crash when a Toyotal Altis was driven into a tree in Sattahip. The driver was thrown from the vehicle but his female passenger amazingly survived after being crushed.

 

Rescue workers managed to extricate 26 year old Phatthida Pratheuangphon from the squashed passenger compartment of the overturned car in a twenty minute operation. She was rushed to hospital with severe injuries, reported Daily News.

 

The driver of the car - Ekarat Minsri, 27 - was ejected from the car as the drivers' side door came off. He was found dead ten metres from the car. He was missing an arm that was found after a search of the bushes.

 

Police said that he was not wearing a seatbelt. The accident happened on Route 332 near the entrance to the temple of Wat Thung Prong in the early hours of Sunday morning.

 

Source: Daily News

 

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[KhunBENQ]

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Police said that he was not wearing a seatbelt.

I would never have assumed this

Ignorance kills.

 

[DLang]

buffalo and carts don't have seat belts.

 

Centuries of field culture transferred to modern roads and vehicles.

[diddygq]

Was he playing Pokemon Go?

[bluebluewater]

His nickname was Lefty

[bazza40]

A safety lecture by a policeman is embedded - speed, alcohol and fatigue are the factors. Perhaps stupidity should be added.

 

One thing he said was particularly relevant to this tragedy. "When it comes to an argument between a tree and a vehicle, the tree usually wins".

[ben2talk]

By all accounts he was 'armless enough. 

 

Honestly, apart from a few lame jokes there's nothing too see here. Even without alcohol they're pretty void of any road sense. Just try to spot one navigating a corner without straying a few metres from the inside kerb...

[hobobo]

14 hours ago, bluebluewater said:

His nickname was Lefty

And he'll be playing One Arm Bandits in heaven!