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Phuket Bus Crash Heroine Hailed as Police Pursue Fleeing Driver

PHUKET police are pursuing the road-weary driver of a tour bus that crashed on Patong Hill today, killing one man and injuring 41 other passengers, three of them seriously.

Twenty-nine-year-old Nuan was the only driver on a 1300 kilometre four-day, five night round trip from Phuket to the north of Thailand – and he overturned the two-level bus within a kilometre or so of ending the trip in Patong, on Phuket’s west coast.

As Phuket police hunted the luckless driver, rescuers hailed his fellow worker, the female attendant on the bus, as a heroine. Bootsaya Kamlangmakcharoen made calls instantly to the police, to hospitals and to rescue services – and she was photographed by Phuketwan in a firetruck using the loudspeaker as she continued to mobilise helpers.

Read more: Phuketwan.com

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