PUBLISHED : 29 Jul 2024 at 11:27
SAMUT PRAKAN: A woman driver was injured when a big steel plate flew through her windscreen and cut her neck and cheek on an elevated expressway.
The incident happened near the 19th kilometre marker on the Bangkok-bound side of the Burapha Withi (Bang Na-Bang Pakong) expressway in tambon Bang Chalong of Bangphli district at about 6pm on Sunday.
Police and rescue workers found Pranee Rungsuksai with her cheek and neck bleeding and her car parked on Thepharat Road (Bang Na-Trat) under the elevated expressway.
Rescue workers gave first aid to the 52-year-old woman, who had cuts in the right cheek and right side of her neck. Then she was sent to a local hospital.
Police found a hole in the driver’s side of the windscreen of her white Toyota car. Inside the car was a steel plate about 13 centimetres wide and long, and 2.5cm thick.
Ms Pranee said she was driving on the elevated expressway to pick up her daughter in Bangkok.
She entered the expressway through the Bang Bo toll plaza and drove in the middle lane with two pickup trucks running in front and on the right of her car.
Suddenly the steel plate penetrated the right part of her windscreen and cut her neck and right cheek.
Ms Pranee said she was hurt and shocked. She tried to calm herself and exited the expressway. She made a U-turn, parked the car and waited for help.
She said stones had previously hit her car. On this incident, she said she was lucky that the plate did not hit the centre of her face.
The driver’s cheek and neck were cut.
The mysterious thick steel plate.