SONGKHLA - A pickup truck driver was mortally injured when his car hit by a sprinter train at a crossing in Khuan Niang district of Songkhla province late on Monday afternoon, police said.
The crushed pickup truck jammed underneath the Yala-Bangkok sprinter train on the tracks near an unguarded crossing in Songkhla’s Khuan Niang district on Monday evening. The truck driver was killed.Photo by Assawin Pakkawan
Kittisak Lhiphan, 33, of Khuan Niang district, was hit about 5pm at a temporary railway crossing with no lights or barriers. The train had left Yala and was heading to Bangkok.
The train, consisting of three passenger carriages, dragged the truck about 200 metres along the tracks before coming to a halt. The train did not derail and no passengers were injured in the accident.
Kittisak was trapped, seriously injured, in his vehicle, which was crushed under the front of the train. It took rescue workers a long while to cut open the wreckage and release him
The driver was rushed to a nearby hospital where he later was pronounced dead, police said.
A preliminary investigation by the State Railway of Thailand branch office in Hat Yai district found the pickup cut across the tracks immediately in front of the moving train, leaving the driver no time to brake to avoid the crash, police said.