A driver fell asleep at the wheel whereas driving a 10-wheel truck carrying pigs through Suphan Buri province in central Thailand yesterday. He drove into a canal and 27 of the pigs died.
Officers at Nang Buat Police Station have been notified that a lorry carrying pigs had fallen into the canal on the Chainat – Suphan Buri Road in Khao Phra subdistrict in Derm Bang Nang Buat district. Police and rescue employees rushed to the scene.
In front of the Khao Phra Subdistrict Administrative Organisation, police found a 10-wheel truck overturned in the canal and more than 100 piled up pigs, a lot of them lifeless, and the rest screaming, reviews KhaoSod.
Off the record and locals worked collectively for almost one hour to carry all the pigs that have been still alive out of the overturned truck and out of the canal.
Then, police coordinated a crane to lift the useless pigs from the canal back into the truck earlier than lifting the vehicle, which was solely barely broken, again onto the street.
The forty four year outdated truck driver Thanapon Premthong said that he was hired to transport over one hundred pigs from Nakhon Sawan province to Samut Prakan province. His son and sister joined him on the journey.
Thanapon stated that as he went round a curve, he started to go to sleep and lost control of the car. Startled, he awakened and tried to get the vehicle underneath management however couldn’t and ended up within the adjoining canal.
The driver said that 27 pigs died in the accident but he, his son and his sister all came out of the incident utterly unscathed..