A tragic street death occurred in Phuket after a truck crushed a bike rider‘s head yesterday morning. A Facebook post with a video of the incident by Phuket Info Center read…
“At 10.39am at present (March 23), there was an accident involving a motorcyclist who misplaced management [of his bike] and fell underneath the rear wheels of a truck. He was run over by the truck’s wheels and died. The incident occurred on the road running alongside Rawai Beach in Rawai sub-district in Phuket’s major city district.” Pongpan Nakwanit, a rescuer from Ruamjai Foundation, said the rider’s head was completely crushed by the truck’s wheels, inflicting him to die immediately, The Phuket News reported.
The victim’s body was transferred to Vachira Phuket Hospital. At Withheld , the truck driver, 58 12 months outdated Samam Kontha, was interviewed. Chalong Police are continuing to analyze the tragic incident.
This information comes only three days after one other tragic demise of a motorcycle rider on Tuesday night time.
The motorbike accident killed a girl and significantly injured a man on Phuket’s Patong-Kamala Road. After an initial investigation, police said the two were driving at a excessive velocity from Kamala toward Patong when the driving force lost management on a curve. This sent the bike flying and carrying the two into large rocks beside the street.
The Thailand Road Safety Committee (ThaiRSC) reported in January that as many as 939,713 road accidents have been reported in Thailand final yr, up four.7% from 2021. Road accidents killed 14,737 folks, and injured 924,799 last 12 months, ThaiRSC said. The committee reported that 536 deaths and 7,885 injuries were among foreigners.
Meanwhile, the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department’s Road Safety Centre reported 2,440 street accidents in the course of the annual “7 harmful days” (December 29 to January 4) when individuals head to their hometowns to mark the new year..