Four killed, 9 injured when pickup hits trailer truck

Rescuers care for the injured passengers after a box pickup truck carrying Myanmar workers rear-ended a trailer truck in Tha Chana district, Surat Thani, early on Wednesday. Four people died in the crash, including the pickup driver. (Photo: Surat Thani rescue team)
After a package delivery truck carrying Myanmar workers struck a trailer truck early on Wednesday in the district of Tha Chana, Surat Thani, rescuers were treating the damaged passengers. Four folks died in the accident, including the delivery vehicle. ( Photo: Surat Thani rescue team )

In Tha Chana area on Wednesday morning, a package delivery truck carrying Myanmar employees rear-ended a video truck, killing four people and injuring nine people.

Around 2.42 a.m., Tha Chana officers radio received a report of the crash on Eastbound Asian Highway 41 in tambon Prasong.

A right-hand street stop-and-go 18-wheel trailer truck with Samut Prakan license plates was discovered by officers and rescue workers on the scene. A field pickup truck with a wrinkled entrance and parked behind it had been registered in Bangkok.

Three persons were dead at the scene, the delivery vehicle and two people. Ten other people were injured, six gentlemen and four people. All the people were Myanmar citizens.

Seven of the wounded were rushed to Tha Chana Hospital, five people and two ladies, where one after died, raising the confirmed death burden to four. &nbsp, The additional wounded people, one person and two ladies, were being treated at Chaiya Hospital.

Police found two other Burmese workers, a gentleman and a girl, hiding in&nbsp, bush alongside the road.

According to police investigators, the delivery was taking immigrant workers from Bangkok to Phatthalung, a state in southern Thailand.

According to authorities, the delivery drivers may have been asleep at the wheel or had been driving too quickly, and he may have collided with the trailer truck’s rear.

Additionally, it was suspected that all of the Myanmar’s travellers were traveling illegally throughout the nation. The analysis was continuing.

The box pickup truck carrying Myanmar migrant workers is parked on the road following a crash in Tha Chana district, Surat Thani in the early hours of Wednesday. (Photo: Surat Thani rescue team)

In Surat Thani’s Tha Chana city, the package delivery vehicle carrying Myanmar staff was seriously damaged when it hit a video vehicle. ( Photo: Surat Thani rescue team )