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by 747man » April 10, 2018, 11:09 am
THIS Is a DIFFERENT One....( Monday Night )
Bus crash kills 6, 17 injured, in Tak
10 Apr 2018 at 10:21 1,071 viewed3 comments
WRITER: ASSAWIN PINITWONG AND ONLINE REPORTERS
The bus overturned bus lies on its side in the roadside ditch in Muang district of Tak early Tuesday morning. (Twitter/@k5_rescue)
TAK: A double-decker bus carrying Myanmar factory workers crashed off the highway and overturned in Muang district early on Monday morning.
Six people were killed and another 17 were injured, "about five seriously" according to first responders.
The accident occurred on Highway 12 (Tak-Mae Sot) at Ban Mae Ta in tambon Mae Thor, near the Myanmar border.
All 52 passengers on the chartered red bus operated by Jongjaroen Capital Co were workers recently arrived from Myanmar. They were heading for a factory in Plaeng Yao district of Chachoengsao.
The bus smashed into a roadside concrete guardrail on Doi Ruak mountain into a roadside ditch and overturned.
Rescue workers used hydraulic jacks to free the injured from the wreckage. They were taken to Somdejphrajaotaksin Maharaj Hospital in Muang district.
Police identified the bus driver as Pisit Tanapakpasit, 40. He was unscathed.
The bus had left Mae Sot district about 8.10pm Monday. It ran off the highway on an accident-prone steep and winding downhill section about five kilometres long about 10.50pm.
Police quoted the driver as saying he was unable to slow down the bus using the brakes. He then tried to use the guardrail to slow down, but to no avail. The bus plunged off the road and into a concrete lined ditch about five metres off the highway.
The accident happened about five kilometres from the spot where another double-decker bus caught fire and killed 20 Myanmar workers at the end of last month.
