Crash kills nine in Ban Pai, Khon Kaen

[JimboPSM]

From Bangkok Post

Crash kills nine in northern Thailand

Bangkok (dpa) - A tour bus crashed head-on into a pickup truck, killing all eight people on the truck and one child who was hurled out of the bus by the impact, police and hospital sources said Monday.

The accident occurred on the Friendship Highway in Ban Pai, Khon Kaen, at about 11:10 p.m. Sunday night, police said.

The impact of the collision imbedded the pickup truck into the front of the bus.

All eight passengers on the truck died instantly, and one 9-year-old girl died en route to Sirinthorn Hospital in Khon Kaen, 380 kilometres north-east of Bangkok, after being hurled out of the bus by the impact, said Sirithorn nurse Sudarat Daosri.

"Both of the girl's parents were also injured in the crash and are currently undergoing treatment," said Daosri.

Deadly automobile accidents are common on the Friendship Highway, the main road linking Thailand's populous north-east region to the rest of the country.

[arjay]

This sounds like a situation where the pick-up's passengers would have been travelling unsecured in the rear open part of the pick up and thus regrettably suffered the severest of consequences.

[BKKSTAN]

It is amazing that some were not killed!

My stepdaughter gets so mad at me when I won't let her ride in the back of p/u's with her friends!

[beer monkey]

It is amazing that some were not killed!

nine were killed stan.

[BKKSTAN]

Thats what happens when I assumed it was the article that I read in the paper where no one was killed plus tagging on the last post instead of reading the other posts!