Tour bus overturns at deadly Chiang Mai curve
published : 1 Jul 2019 at 00:33
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Online Reporters
CHIANG MAI: Fourteen people were hurt, three seriously, when a bus carrying Chinese tourists overturned at a dangerous spot that local people call “the curve of a hundred corpses” in Doi Saket district on Saturday afternoon.
The accident happened on the Chiang Mai-Chiang Rai road at Ban Mae Wan village.
The Hana Tour bus with Chiang Mai licence plates was found overturned by the roadside. Many passengers were seen trying to escape from the overturned vehicle, Thai media reported.
Rescue workers rushed to help them. A total of 14 people, including Chinese tourists, the driver and a bus staffer, were hurt. Three were badly injured. All were taken to Doi Saket Hospital.
A police investigation found that the bus was taking 12 Chinese tourists from Chiang Mai to Chiang Rai. It failed to negotiate the sharp curve, causing it to strike a concrete kilometre marker before it overturned.
Local residents said road accidents occurred frequently in the area, which explained the grisly name given to the location.
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Vocabulary
- concrete: a hard substance used in building made by mixing cement, sand, small stones, and water - คอนกรีต
- corpse: a dead body - ศพ
- curve: a line or surface that bends gradually; a smooth bend - เส้นโค้ง, ทางโค้ง
- escape (verb): to get away from a place; to leave a place where you are in danger - หนี
- frequently: happening often - บ่อยๆ
- grisly: involving death or violence in a shock way; very unpleasant to look at because it involves death or violence - น่ากลัว,น่าขนลุก,น่าเขย่าขวัญ
- negotiate: to successfully travel on a road or path that is difficult to travel on or through - ฝ่าไป
- overturn: to turn upside down or on the side - พลิกคว่ำ, คว่ำลง
- Keywords
- bus
- overturned
- bus overturns
- bus staffer
