Singaporean killed, 6 hurt in Phuket car-bus crash

Rescue workers prepare to take the injured from the car and the tour bus to hospitals following a crash in Karon area, Phuket, on Friday night. (Photo: Achadthaya Chuenniran)
Save workers prepare to take the injured in the car and the tour bus to private hospitals following a crash in Karon area, Phuket, on Friday night. (Photo: Achadthaya Chuenniran)

PHUKET: A Singaporean lady was killed plus seven others, which includes her four compatriots, injured when a vehicle she was generating hit a small visit bus while coming downhill on a hilly road Muang region on Friday night time.

The particular accident was documented around 10. 50pm, said Pol Capt Charnnarong Prakhongkua, a study officer at Karon police station.

Police, catastrophe prevention and mitigation officials and recovery workers arrived at the particular scene and discovered a badly broken Toyota Yaris along with Phuket licence china and a small white-colored bus with Phuket licence plates and a broken windscreen upon Patak Road in tambon Karon.

A preliminary analysis found that the vehicle was travelling through tambon Chalong to tambon Karon. As the car was coming downhill, the driver dropped control of her automobile, causing it hitting the bus, which earlier took a group of tourists to Kata beach.

The impact from the crash caused 5 Singaporean tourists including the driver, the tour bus driver and two guides to maintain injuries.  

The wounded from both automobiles were rushed to Chalong and Vachira Phuket hospitals.

The Singaporean woman driver has been unconscious at the picture and succumbed to injuries on the way to the hospital.

Upon Saturday, Pol Lt Ekkachai Siri, an inspector if Phuket Tourist Police, disclosed details of the deceased and injured sufferers in the crash.

The driver who had been killed was identified as Ho Jia Hui Renee, 21. The particular four other hurt Singaporeans –two as well as two women – were Byran Teo Li Yan, thirty, Poh Mao Xin, 30, Pang Jiang Ning Eliana, 21, and Ng Ja Xin, 66.

The three wounded people in the bus were bus car owner Anirut Chomcherd, 32, Nuengruethai Raknawa, 43, and South Korean woman Sang-min Lee, 41.

Police investigation had been continuing to find the specific cause of the crash.