A terrible crash on Motorway Route 7 in Chon Buri killed 4 individuals early this morning, including a pregnant employee. The accident occurred when a van carrying migrant workers rear-ended a trailer truck on the Pattaya-inbound lane within the Nong Khang Khok sub-district of the principle metropolis district.
Rescuers and police rushed to the scene to find a passenger van with Bangkok licence plates that had sustained vital injury to the entrance. Nothing to it -wheel trailer truck hauling a container was found nearby, Bangkok Post reported.
The van driver and 12 passengers had been trapped contained in the car and needed to be retrieved from the wreckage. Unfortunately, the motive force, 55 yr old Pattaradet Kaew-in, and three passengers lost their lives, whereas the 9 injured, 5 seriously, were transported to Chon Buri Hospital.
A police investigation found that the van was carrying 12 migrant employees from Cambodia and Myanmar who had hired the motive force to take them to the border province of Chanthaburi to resume their migrant worker playing cards.
The truck driver, 50 year outdated Sayen Phalaphon told police that he was driving alongside the motorway when the van suddenly rammed into the again of his car, and the brakes were not applied. Police suspected that the van driver might have fallen asleep.
The ThaiRSC reported in January that as many as 939,713 highway accidents were reported in Thailand final 12 months, up four.7% from 2021. Road accidents killed 14,737 people, and injured 924,799 final yr, ThaiRSC mentioned. The committee reported that 536 deaths and 7,885 accidents have been among foreigners.
Meanwhile, the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department’s Road Safety Centre reported 2,440 road accidents through the annual “7 dangerous days” (December 29 to January 4) when individuals head to their hometowns to mark the brand new yr..

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