Soda Smash: Est v. Pepsi collision injures 7 in multi-vehicle crash

[snoop1130]

Soda Smash: Est v. Pepsi collision injures 7 in multi-vehicle crash

By Todd Ruiz, Editor

 

 

NAKHON PATHOM — The cola wars appeared to take a literal turn this morning when an Est delivery truck drove from the road a truck for soda rival Pepsi, injuring seven people in a nine vehicle pile-up.

 

Saroj Somboon, 50, was hauling Est down Petchkasem Road in Nakhon Pathom’s Sam Phran district when he slammed into the slower-moving Pepsi truck, pushing it over the center divider. After rear-ending his soda nemesis, Saroj plowed into the back of six cars waiting at a traffic light, some of which struck vehicles in the adjacent lane.

 

Full Story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/crimecourtscalamity/crime-crime/2016/08/16/soda-smash-est-v-pepsi-collision-injures-7-multi-vehicle-crash/

 

-- Khaosod English 2016-08-16

[seahorse]

There's no stopping Est's quest to damage Pepsi.

 

Luckily no-one died here. A lot of people have lost their lives in the Cola Wars....

 

 

....due to diabetes. high blood pressure and heart disease.

[tomwct]

The Driver is mad because Pepsi is returning to the market full steam ahead and EST is losing it's market share! He'll probably lose his job!

[ratcatcher]

I wonder whose pop cans the white car is made from?

[Brer Fox]

Starved of news of road accidents for the last few days here I was thinking the bomb scare had suddenly turned bad drivers into good drivers.

 

However it seems normality has now returned to the roads.

[tifino]

a bit of a fizzer

[NCC1701A]

"The cola wars appeared to take a literal turn this morning when an Est delivery truck drove from the road a truck for soda rival Pepsi"

 

English MoFo! Do you speak it?

 

 

[NongKhaiKid]

The brakes suddenly failed  !

I have a feeling I've heard this before but struggling to remember when.     

[nahkit]

11 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

"The cola wars appeared to take a literal turn this morning when an Est delivery truck drove from the road a truck for soda rival Pepsi"

 

English MoFo! Do you speak it?

 

 

 

v. drove

1. To push, propel, or press onward forcibly; 

[SOTIRIOS]

...are they saying this was a deliberate act....

 

...really surprised how that other brand was ever allowed to get away with 'imitating' the original one to begin with.....

[ratcatcher]

25 minutes ago, SOTIRIOS said:

...are they saying this was a deliberate act....

 

...really surprised how that other brand was ever allowed to get away with 'imitating' the original one to begin with.....

Apparently the sincerest form of flattery is imitation, something which the Thais do so well.

[DLang]

That first photo in the OP takes some skill to pull off.

 

 

Practice makes perfect, I suppose.

[whatproblem]

What about charging him with an unsafe vehicle ,unroadworthy ,and don't they know how to use gears or the drink and drugs confuse them too much

[webfact]

Pile-up collision leaves six injured in Nakhon Pathom

 

 

NAKHON PATHOM: -- Six people were injured in a pileup crash that involved four trucks and four sedans in Samphran district of Nakhon Pathom.

 

Samphran district police said the pile-up collision happened after a six-wheel truck full with soft drink loads of Sermsuk Co developed braking failure while it was heading for Nakhon Pathom town from Samphran.

 

The truck could not stop when it arrived near the intersection where the other cars and trucks were waiting for traffic light to go.

It rammed at the rear of a truck ahead and caused a pile-up crash that injured six motorists and passengers in these vehicles.

 

Soft drink truck driver Saroj Somboon told police he tried to stop but couldn’t because the braking system didn’t work.

 

He was detained pending further questioning.

 

Among the injured admitted to Samphran hospital is a chief police investigator of Samphran police station Pol Lt Col Chotchuang Panutat.

 

His pickup truck sat on the roof of a Pajero van after the pile-up crash.

 

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/pile-collision-leaves-six-injured-nakhon-pathom/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2016-08-17

[toofarnorth]

Maybe the driver that caused all this had been on coke.

[lvr181]

9 hours ago, NongKhaiKid said:

The brakes suddenly failed  !

I have a feeling I've heard this before but struggling to remember when.     

 

Never brakes fail/fade, it is "brain fade"  

[Redline]

What do the letters EST stand for?