5 killed, 4 injured in early morning crash
published : 16 Jan 2023 at 13:22
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Prasit Tangprasert
Five men were killed and four others seriously injured when a pickup ran off a rural road at a bend and hit a tree in Nakhon Ratchasima.
One of those killed was the driver, Sgt Maj Phayungkiat Waisanthia, 31, of the 11th Infantry Division in Bangkok.
Police said Sgt Maj Phayungkiat was driving eight friends from the same village back home after a night out in Non Thai district town. Four were riding on the back of the vehicle.
About 3.05am, while negotiating a bend, the pickup ran off the road and overturned after hitting a roadside tree. The vehicle suffered major damage.
All five people travelling in the pickup cabin were killed.
The four people riding on the back were thrown off by the impact and seriously injured.
Vocabulary
- bend: a curve - โค้ง
- cabin: the area where passengers sit in an aircraft - ห้องคนโดยสารในเครื่องบิน
- impact (noun): the force with which one object hits another - แรงกระแทก
- injured (adj): hurt in an accident, natural disaster, attack, etc. - ได้รับบาดเจ็บ
- negotiate: to successfully travel on a road or path that is difficult to travel on or through - ฝ่าไป
- night out on the town: when a person goes out at night with friends and eats at a restaurant or goes to some other entertainment like a bar or movie -
- overturn: to turn upside down or on the side - พลิกคว่ำ, คว่ำลง
- vehicle: a machine that you travel in or on, especially one with an engine that travels on roads, e.g., a car, bus, van, truck, etc. - ยานพาหนะ
