TWO INDIAN tourists died and four others plus the driver got injured while travelling from southern Hat Yai city to Bangkok after their van slammed into a 10-wheel truck in Chumphon province, Siam Rath newspaper said this morning (Dec. 9).
At 1 a.m. Pol. Capt. Theeraporn Kongnuan, deputy inspector at Thasae police station in Chumphon, was alerted of this accident at Kuan Sai U-turn point on Phetkasem road at Thasae district, and quickly rushed there.
Upon arriving he saw the 10-wheel truck parked at the U-turn lane with the left side hit and slightly damaged and the driver waiting for officials to arrive.
However the van that slammed into the big truck had overturned and flipped into a roadside ditch with the impact causing heavy damage.
Rescuers quickly took the four tourists and the van driver to Thasae and Chumphon Khet Udomsak hospitals.
A the same time the two Indian tourists who died in this accident, one 25 years old and the other 28, were stuck in the vehicle and rescuers had to use cutting tools to remove their bodies.
Preliminary investigation reveals that 10 foreign tourists were travelling in this van from Hat Yai to Bangkok . When the vehicle reached the accident point, which is an uphill stretch of the four-lane Phetkasem road and where the U-turn point is located, the truck was about to make a U-turn when the van travelling behind slammed into it.
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Top and Front Page: Scenes from the accident that occurred soon after midnight last night, Dec. 9, 2023. Photos: Siam Rath
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