Another reason to take the train.
The driver lost control of the first-class, air-conditioned Transport Co. Ltd vehicle and it crashed into an electric power transmission pole on Surat Thani-Nakhon Si Thammarat Road in Kanchanadit district.
Ten people including the driver and Amit Jain, an Indian, were killed in the crash. Five bodies were unidentified and were sent for autopsies at Surat Thani Hospital.
Another 17 persons including Thais and foreigners were injured and are being treated in local hospitals.
The bus carried 24 passengers, the driver and two bus attendants, leaving Bangkok at 7.50 pm on Monday en route to Phangan Island in the southern province of Surat Thani.
According to the initial investigation, the front right tire burst, causing the driver to lose control and the bus hit the electric pole at full speed.
Electric transmission wires were ripped apart and gas was leaking from the disabled bus. Local authorities cut the electricity, while a responding fire truck stood by at the crash site. (MCOT online news)
4 more years!
Unfortunately for the rescue guys the backpacks had already been pilfered by the staff.
thats what sarah did , took the train to koh samuiOriginally Posted by kingdomcome
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Got a feeling you will again too. Won't you?
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Is this OT Thai bashing the best you can post in response to this tragedy?
^ Surely you can troll better than that?
2.5/10 if I'm feeling generous.
Ratchaburi is huge in the bus building industry; the tambon I live in and most of the ones in the area have bus companies.
I'm appalled at how skimpy the frames for the skin and the entire upper (from the main frame up) structure construction seems. It appears to be 1" square steel tubing. I've never seen the construction of a Greyhound or Trailways bus in the states, so I have no idea if their construction is comparable.
In any event; I no longer use Thai public or private transportation (vans & busses).
I feel much safer driving myself.
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and you have found out the exact measure of injustice
and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these
will continue till they are resisted with either
words or blows, or with both.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn;
“Don’t believe them, don’t fear them, don’t ask
anything of them.”
I find that hard to believe.
^ Right.
The Bangkok Post published some names of the deceased and injured.
10 dead, 17 hurt in bus accident | Bangkok Post: news
Yeah those Thais will steal your socks without removing your shoes won't they. Their specialty are the dead. They even steal shit at funerals, like jewelery, right out of the coffin. Buss driver was drunk no doubt. It's in their genes to get pissed and kill farang, innit?
The ones from the Santika fire whose gold jewelery went missing while kept in the police station before being moved to the morgue were, yes.
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