10 killed, 24 hurt in bus crash | Bangkok Post: news 10 killed, 24 hurt in bus crash Ten people were killed and 24 others injured when an interprovincial passenger bus travelling from Bangkok to Si Sa Ket crashed head-on with an 18-wheel truck in Surin’s Sangkha district early Wednesday morning, police said.
Pol Capt Pavaves Krawenkij, an investigator at Sangkha district of Surin province, said the accident happened about 3.45am on the Chokechai-Dejudom highway near the kilometre 13 marker in Sangkha's tambon Sakad.
Four of those killed were men and six women. The injured people, seven in critical condition, were taken to hospitals in Sangkha, Lamduan, and Prasart districts and Surin hospital, the police officer said.
Pradit Sophanawej, the bus driver, and Tawan Pannao, the driver of the 18-wheel truck, died in the crash, Pol Capt Pavaves said.
The accident blocked the highway for more than two hours. Police were investigating the cause of the fatal accident.
In Chanthaburi's Muang district, a three-car accident this morning killed one person and injured two others.
Chanthaburi police said a car crashed into a pickup truck that was making a U-turn. Another pickup failed to dodge the crashed vehicles and slammed into the back of the car.
A 56-year-old woman fell from the back of the second pickup. Her head hit the road and she died on the spot, police said.
The two pickup drivers sustained minor injuries in the accident.
On Feb 10, eight Cambodians were killed and three others injured when a passenger van they were in slammed into the back of a parked six-wheel truck near the 59-kilometre marker on Kanchanaphisek ringroad in the On Nut area.
On Jan 13, another passenger van ran into a 10-wheel truck on Rama II road, injuring 14 people.
On Jan 6, a packed passenger van bound for Chachoengsao ran into the rear of an 18-wheel truck on the motorway, killing six people.
(Ten people were killed and 24 others hurt when a passenger bus crashed head on with an 18-wheel truck in Surin province on Feb 15, 2012. Photos by Nopparat Kingkaew)
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