Fatal collision strews bodies, bags, fish over road

Fatal collision strews bodies, bags, fish over road

Rescue workers release injured victims from the wreckage of a pickup truck involved in a crash with another truck in Nakhon Pathom early on Thursday morning. Two Myanmar workers were killed and 11 other people injured. (Photo by FM91 @fm91trafficpro)
Rescue workers release injured victims from the wreckage of a pickup truck involved in a crash with another truck in Nakhon Pathom early on Thursday morning. Two Myanmar workers were killed and 11 other people injured. (Photo by FM91 @fm91trafficpro)

NAKHON PATHOM - Two men were killed and 11 other people hurt when a pickup truck carrying migrant workers collided with another pickup loaded with fish in Muang district before dawn on Thursday.

The fatal crash occurred around 4.30am at Nong Khayang intersection on Yingpao Road in tambon Sanam Chan, said Pol Capt Yutthaphum Porsawat, a deputy chief investigator for Muang district.  

The bodies of two Myanmar men were lying  on the road near a wrecked black Toyota Vigo pickup truck with Nakhon Pathom licence plates when police and rescue workers arrived at the scene. Bags and other belongings were scattered over the road.

Not far from the wreckage, a silver Vigo pickup with Nakhon Pathom licence plates had plunged into the roadside canal. Its cargo, about one tonne of tilapia fish, was scattered over the road. 

Eleven people from the two vehicles were injured and rushed to nearby hospitals, Thai media reported.

Police investigators learned the black pickup, carrying 10 migrant workers, was travelling at high speed when it crashed head-on with the fish-laden truck heading to a downtown market. The traffic lights at the intersection were set to flashing.

Police hoped surveillance camera footage would establish the cause of the crash.

Rescue workers retrieve the victims from the wreckage of the two pickup trucks following a crash in Nakhon Pathom's Muang district early Thursday morning. (Photo by FM91 @fm91trafficprof)

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