Drugs left in crashed car as passengers flee

Police search a Toyota sedan abandoned after crashing into a ditch in Ron Phibun district of Nakhon Si Thammarat on Sunday night. They found more than 40,000 meth pills in the vehicle. (Photo: Nujaree Rakrun)
Police search a Toyota sedan abandoned right after crashing into a forget in Ron Phibun district of Nakhon Si Thammarat on Sunday night. These people found more than 40, 000 meth tablets in the vehicle. (Photo: Nujaree Rakrun)

NAKHON SI THAMMARAT: Police discovered 40, 000 methamphetamine pills in a vehicle that had crashed and then been discontinued in Ron Phibun district late upon Sunday night.

The two males in the vehicle fled, flourishing guns, each time a rescue team showed up to help, police stated.

Pol Col Suthas Songsayom, the Ron Phibun police chief, said an accident was documented near Suan Phak intersection in tambon Ron Phibun regarding 11. 30pm. An automobile had crashed to the ditch in the street median strip.

Police sent to the scene discovered a white Toyota sedan in the ditch, its front badly damaged. There was no one in the car.

Inside the vehicle, police discovered 40, 084 meth pills hidden in the correct front door, along with forty rounds of. 357 ammunition and a license to carry a gun.

Rescuers from the Sayam Ruam Chai Foundation who arrived at the scene ahead of the police said that as they approached the damaged vehicle two males got out of it, brandishing handguns. They quickly moved away, fearful for their lives.

The  2 men then fled on foot, taking something away with them, someone said.

The vehicle and the meth capsules were taken to Ron Phibun police train station for further examination.