PHITSANULOK – The driver of a pickup truck was killed and his passenger badly hurt when their vehicle was hit by an oil train at a railway crossing in Muang district around noon on Thursday.
The force of the impact threw the black pickup off the tracks and into an adjoining paddy field. The two men were trapped in the wreckage.
The dead man was the driver Pairat Phumphon. The injured man, identified later as Tuen Phuphon, 59, was rushed to a nearby hospital.
Train No 644, running on the Lampang-Saraburi route, struck the car as passed over the rails about 12.30pm at the crossing in tambon Wat Prik, said Pol Lt Col Sombat Srimonra, chief investigator of Wang Nam Khu police.
The locomotive driver stopped the train and gave a statement to police.
An automatic barrier had been installed at the railway crossing, but it was not yet operating.
Police were investigating.
Rescue workers and police rush to the aid of the two men trapped in their pickup after it was struck by a freight train at a crossing in Muang district, Phitsanulok around noon on Thursday. (Photo by Chinnawat Singha)