Thai driver causes accident in Japan
published : 29 Jul 2019 at 16:07
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Online Reporters
A 31-year-old Thai driver using a GPS to tour Hokkaido Island in Japan has been charged after his car crashed into another vehicle and injured four women, one of whom was badly hurt.
The crash happened early on Sunday afternoon, according to media reports.
The man was travelling on two-lane Highway 237, heading to Furano tourist city of Hokkaido prefecture. His vehicle crashed head-on into a car travelling in the opposite direction, which was then rear-ended by two following cars.
A seriously hurt 24-year Japanese woman was rushed to a hospital by helicopter. Three other young women sustained minor injuries, according to Hokkaido fanclub Facebook page.
It was reported the Thai driver, who was not named, admitted he was focusing on the car's GPS navigator and had failed to look at the road ahead.
Japanese police have charged him with reckless driving causing injury.
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Vocabulary
- focus: to give attention, effort, etc. to one particular subject, situation or person rather than another - เพ่งความสนใจ
- GPS: global positioning system (a system by which signals are sent from satellites to a special device, used to show the position of a person or thing on the surface of the earth very accurately) - จีพีเอส (ระบบกำหนดตำแหน่งบนโลก)
- head-on: head-on collision; when the fronts of two cars or boats drive into each other causing great injury and destruction -
- lane: one of the parts that a wide road or motorway is divided into, marked by painted lines and intended for one line of traffic - ช่องทางเดินรถ
- rear-ended: hit from behind -
- reckless: not thinking about the possible bad effects of your actions - สะเพร่า
- sustain: to experience, injury, damage, loss, etc. - ประสบกับ (ความสูญเสีย การเจ็บป่วย)
- Keywords
- car
- driver
- car travelling
- fanclub facebook page
