AYUTTHAYA - Two people were killed and a third critically hurt when a car and a trailer truck loaded with sand collided in Ayutthaya’s Nakhon Luang district on Wednesday morning.
The fatal accident occurred near Chai Rang intersection on Nakhon Luang-Phachi Road in tambon Ban Chung, said Pol Capt Rung Panya, a deputy chief investigator at Nakhon Luang.
The collision was reported about 10am. Police and rescue workers rushing to the scene found the entangled wreckage of a 22-wheel trailer truck and a Nissan sedan in an irrigation canal.
Police said later the trailer truck, loaded with sand, was travelling on the main road when the car came out of a secondary road and cut in front of it at a bridge over an irrigation canal near the intersection. The two vehicles then plunged into the canal.
The two people inside the car died on the spot. They were the driver, who was not yet identified, and a woman identified later as Thitiporn Yommana, 42, of Ayutthaya. The trailer truck driver, Cholathee Pianpalad, 40, of Saraburi, was seriously hurt and rushed to a nearby hospital.
The investigation was continuing, with police planning to examine footage from a nearby closed-circuit camera.
Residents said the crash scene was highly prone to road accidents and had been dubbed the “100 corpses’’ intersection.
It was the 10 the accident in this central province since the road safety campaign for the Songkran festival started, during which three people have now died and six others been injured. The first death was in Lat Bua Lang district.
The twisted wreckage of the sedan and the 22-wheel trailer truck in the irrigation canal in Ayutthaya’s Nakhon Luang district on Wednesday morning. (Photo by Sunthorn Pongpao)