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PRACHIN BURI: Twenty-five passengers and their driver cheated death when the latter dozed off on a highway in Kabin Buri district Saturday on a trip back from Songkran holiday. No one was hurt but a passenger fainted. The first-class, air-conditioned inter-provincial bus registered in Udon Thani province was on Highway 304
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KRABI: Two people, including a three-year-old boy, were killed and six others injured in a crash involving a tour bus and a pickup truck in Ao Luk district late Friday night. The fatal crash occurred at Ao Luk Nua intersection where the pickup truck suddenly rammed into the tour bus, which
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A passenger bus smashed into a bridge before plunging into a ravine in the central Philippines, killing at least 19 passengers and injuring 21 others, police said Wednesday. The bus was traveling near the mountainous town of San Agustin in central Occidental Mindoro province Tuesday night when it veered off the
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A double-decker bus crashed into a roadside stall in Phitsanulok on Tuesday morning. The driver and his father, the only people on board, were slightly injured. Police were at the scene on Phitsanulok-Nakhon Sawan Road in Ban Wang Ped, Bang Rakham district, soon after at 9am. Full story: The Nation By The Nation
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BANGKOK, 13 December 2017 (NNT) – The Ministry of Transport plans to use a common e-ticket system in June 2018, which will cover the fares for all public transports in Bangkok. The Ministry of Transport’s Permanent-Secretary Chartchai Tipsunave chaired a meeting with representatives of related agencies regarding the electronic ticket system
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The Bangkok Mass Transit Authority has pulled automatic cash boxes from 800 public buses because they were doing a poor job collecting fares in coins. It was found that the system was too slow for the large numbers of commuters during rush hours, resulting in traffic jams, a source at the
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A group of 36 Chinese tourists narrowly escaped unhurt when a bus in which they were travelling from Phangnga province caught fire in Phuket Saturday afternoon (Nov 25). As the bus was running on the Thepkrasattri road in Phuket, the driver noticed smoke emanating from the engine room and pulled it
Read More BANGKOK, 10 August 2017 (NNT) – Bangkok buses will be trialing 8 new routes under a new zoning system starting this August 15. Department of Land Transport (DLT) Director-General Sanit Phromwong said that to reform bus lines of the Bangkok Mass Transit Authority (BMTA) for greater efficiency and service, the capital’s
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