A devastating late-night collision on a Chonburi motorway claimed the lives of eight family members—including three young children—when their car was crushed between two lorries in a horrific chain-reaction crash.

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The tragedy unfolded around midnight Thursday as the family of ten was traveling to Rayong to visit relatives. According to a surviving 12-year-old girl, their car had pulled over behind a parked lorry on the motorway’s hard shoulder to retrieve a diaper from the trunk. Moments later, a second speeding lorry plowed into them from behind, sandwiching their vehicle with catastrophic force.

The Victims are two toddler girls, a 10-year-old boy, four women, and one man (the driver, the girl’s uncle).

The 12-year-old and an 18-year-old woman—who had stepped out just before impact—watched in horror as their family’s car was flattened. “We were only getting a diaper for the baby,” the girl sobbed to police. The driver of the parked lorry, who had stopped to eat with his wife, said the collision happened “in seconds.”

Rescue teams arrived to find the passenger car “completely compressed” into a mangled wreck. A veteran emergency worker broke down at the sight, describing it as “the worst crash I’ve seen in years.”

Police are examining whether the moving lorry’s driver—who survived—was fatigued or speeding. The tragedy has reignited calls for stricter enforcement of hard shoulder safety rules on Thailand’s deadly highways.

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As the two survivors recover from shock and minor injuries, relatives gathered at a temple morgue to identify their loved ones—their journey to Rayong ending in unimaginable grief.

-Thailand News (TN)