A packed van ferrying passengers on Sunday plunged from an expressway onto Rama VI road before bursting into flames, killing at least eight and seriously injuring five. The speedy van swerved and hit an expressway wall near Rama VI exit before plunging onto the road near Samsen School at about 5pm. The van then burst […]
BANGKOK, October 3 (RIA Novosti) A bus with Russian tourists overturned near the Thai resort city of Pattaya, the Russian embassy in Bangkok said on Sunday. “At about 6:00 a.m. Moscow time [2:00 GMT] a bus which set off from Pattaya on a two-day trip to the Kanchanaburi province flipped over some 20 km from […]
BANGKOK, 27 September 2010 (NNT) – The number of road accidents caused by public buses has increased to almost 200 in the first eight months of 2010, with over 100 fatalities and nearly 2,000 injuries. According to Land Transport Department Director-General Chairat Sanguansue, 186 road accidents were reported in the first eight months of this […]
A teenager killed in a tragic car crash had survived the tsunami disaster of 2004 by fleeing with his family. Billy Cooney, 19, suffered fatal injuries at 5am on Thursday when his Vauxhall Corsa ploughed into a barrier on the A627M at the Elk Mill roundabout in Oldham. He was taken to the Royal Oldham […]
A 56-year-old United States national driving a motorbike was killed on Sukhumvit Road in yet another road accident on the streets of Pattaya. Identified as Mr Paul Eric Walpole, the American national, was riding his motorbike along Sukhumvit Road near the Banglamung School on Tuesday when he allegedly attempted to cross in front of a […]
An intoxicated Canadian motorist on Friday morning caused a fatal car accident with a baht-bus at the Loma roundabout in North Pattaya, according to police. All twelve people involved in the accident were later transported to hospital, one Thai woman later dying of her injuries. Pattaya, the 10th of September 2010 [PDN]: At approximately 4:00am […]
Young Tooting man paralysed and stranded in Thailand A salesman from Tooting is stranded in a Thai hospital after he was paralysed in a crash and did not have insurance. Tom Moss, 27, was left blind and unable to move from the neck down after his moped was hit by two cars and a lorry […]
The 30-year old Danish war veteran had his prosthetic leg crushed as he was run down by a scooter during a holiday in Thailand. But his insurance company left him hanging with no way home. Last week Danish ex military professional Benjamin Kragsskjold was run down by a scooter while he and his girlfriend were […]
