NAKHON SI THAMMARAT: A man was killed and six other people injured in a pile-up involving an 18-wheel articulated lorry and eight other vehicles in Thung Song district on Saturday evening.
Pol Capt Luesak Anusilp, a duty officer at Kapang police station, said the accident took place while many vehicles were stopped at a red light at an intersection in tambon Kapang.
The 18-wheel lorry rammed into a row of eight vehicles in front of it, damaging all of them. One of them, an Isuzu pick-up, was completely crushed. The driver, Chaiwut Ponrit, 61, was seriously injured. He died later at Rassada Hospital in Trang province.
Six other people - a boy, three women and two men - were injured and admitted to hospital.
An investigation was underway to establish the cause of the accident.