PHUKET: The Singaporean woman had been killed and 7 others, including the girl four compatriots, were injured after the car she was driving hit a small trip bus while coming downhill along a hilly road within Muang district upon Friday night, state police.
The collision had been reported about 10. 50pm, said Pol Capt Charnnarong Prakhongkua, an investigation officer in Karon station.
Police officers, devastation prevention and mitigation officials and rescue workers arrived at the scene on Patak Road in tambon Karon where they found a badly damaged Toyota Yaris and a small whitened bus, both with Phuket number plates.
A preliminary investigation found that the car was travelling from tambon Chalong to tambon Karon. While the car had been coming downhill, the driving force lost control of the car and it collided with all the bus, which previously had taken several tourists to Kata beach.
The crash effect left four Singaporean tourists in the car in addition to the bus car owner and two instructions with injuries, Pol Capt Charnnarong stated.
They were taken to Chalong plus Vachira Phuket private hospitals, he said.
The Singaporean driver of the vehicle was unconscious on the scene and was a victim of injuries on the way towards the hospital, he stated.
Pol Lt Ekkachai Siri, inspector with Phuket Tourist Police, the other day issued details of the particular dead and injured victims in the crash.
The vehicle driver was identified as Ho Jia Hui Renee, 21. The particular four injured 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 hurt people in the coach were bus car owner Anirut Chomcherd, 32, and guides Nuengruethai Raknawa, 43, and South Korean girl Sang-min Lee, 41.