13 October 2023 at 12: 20 PUBLISHED
SURAT THANI: On Friday morning in the Chaiya area of this southwestern province, a pick-up driver was struck by an approaching train, barely avoiding death.
According to the police, the tragedy happened in tambon Talad Chaiya at around 3.50 am at a railroad crossing close to an open market.
The delivery driver, 56-year-old Tassanai Jiewmaidaeng, claimed to have overtaken another pickup while driving from his home to the market and sped toward the railroad cross without noticing that the wooden restaurants at the cross had been lowered. The approaching expressway train No. 37( Bangkok – Sungai Kolok ) struck the pickup on the rail track after it broke through the wooden bars.
The pickup’s kept back tire blew out. Mr. Tassanai suffered a minor injury.
Before continuing to the Chaiya railway train, which was about 200 meters away, the coach took a brief break.
