Pickup, van collide, 9 injured

Pickup, van collide, 9 injured

The heavily damaged passenger van, hit by a pickup in Kalasin's Nong Kung Si district on Monday morning.
The heavily damaged passenger van, hit by a pickup in Kalasin's Nong Kung Si district on Monday morning.

KALASIN: Nine people were injured, one of them seriously, when a pickup truck collided with a passenger van in Nong Kung Si district early on Monday, police said.

The accident occurred about 3.20am at a curve on Highway 2009 in front of Nong Kung Si Occupational College in tambon Lam Nong Saen. The pickup veered across the middle line and hit the on-coming van, police said.

Of the seven passengers in the van, six sustained minor injuries and the other, a woman, was seriously hurt. Two women passengers in the pickup were slightly injured. All were taken to Nong Kung Si Hospital.

The van was taking the passengers from Bangkok to tambon Lam Huay Saen in Nong Kung Si district. The pickup was heading out of Nong Kung Si town, taking people home from a mor lam show.

Police were questioning the two drivers.


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