Phuket truck driver flees after six-wheeler flips, dumps soil on busy bypass road

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The driver was nowhere to be found after the truck was launched onto its side by a tyre blowout. Photo: Tan Promedic Phuket

 

PHUKET: -- The driver of a six-wheeled truck seems to have luckily escaped serious injury after fleeing the scene where a tyre blowout launched his vehicle, heavily laden with soil, onto its side on Phuket’s bypass road last night (June 20).

 

Phuket City Police were notified of the accident, on the northbound lanes near the Pornthip souvenir store (see map below), at 7:35pm

 

Lt Col Sakchai Chunyong of Phuket City Police together with Kusoldharm rescue workers arrived at the scene to find the white Hino truck on its side with soil scattered across the road.

 

Full story: http://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-truck-driver-flees-after-six-wheeler-flips-dumps-soil-on-busy-bypass-road-62672.php

 

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if it was just a tyre blowout , why did the Driver have to flee the scene? 

32 minutes ago, Moonmoon said:

if it was just a tyre blowout , why did the Driver have to flee the scene? 

 

Maybe no valid DL ...

1 hour ago, Moonmoon said:

if it was just a tyre blowout , why did the Driver have to flee the scene? 

Got a bad back did not fancy the shovel work, or maybe just habit

55 minutes ago, oldlakey said:

Got a bad back did not fancy the shovel work, or maybe just habit

I like this 1, just habit lol 

On 2017-6-21 at 9:00 PM, Moonmoon said:

if it was just a tyre blowout , why did the Driver have to flee the scene? 

Coz more than likely he was on yaba & Thai Whiskey. ???