A tragic street demise 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 control [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 took place on the road operating along Rawai Beach in Rawai sub-district in Phuket’s primary city district.” Hush-hush , a rescuer from Ruamjai Foundation, said the rider’s head was fully crushed by the truck’s wheels, causing him to die instantly, The Phuket News reported.
The victim’s body was transferred to Vachira Phuket Hospital. At the scene, the truck driver, fifty eight 12 months old Samam Kontha, was interviewed. Chalong Police are continuing to investigate the tragic incident.
This news comes solely three days after another tragic dying of a motorcycle rider on Tuesday night.
The bike accident killed a lady and critically injured a person on Phuket’s Patong-Kamala Road. After an initial investigation, police said the two had been driving at a high velocity from Kamala towards Patong when the driver misplaced management on a curve. This sent the bike flying and carrying the two into giant rocks beside the street.
The Thailand Road Safety Committee (ThaiRSC) reported in January that as many as 939,713 road accidents were reported in Thailand final yr, up 4.7% from 2021. Road accidents killed 14,737 people, and injured 924,799 last yr, ThaiRSC mentioned. The committee reported that 536 deaths and 7,885 accidents were among foreigners.
Meanwhile, the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department’s Road Safety Centre reported 2,440 highway accidents through the annual “7 harmful days” (December 29 to January 4) when folks head to their hometowns to mark the new 12 months..