Student dashing across the road badly injured after being hit by car
A SEVENTH grade female student who ran across a road in Rayong without heeding a warning from her caretaker and not waiting for her friends was badly injured after being hit by a sedan this afternoon (July 25), Sanook.com said. At 4 p.m. today Pluak Daeng Foundation was notified of an accident on Road […]
Read MoreCanadian woman biking in Kanchanaburi dies after being hit by pickup truck
A CANADIAN woman biking in Kanchanaburi with her husband died early this morning (June 18) after being hit by a pickup truck while changing lanes to make a U-turn, Thai Rath newspaper said. At 7.30 a.m. Pol. Capt. Chairat Chananan, a deputy inspector at Mueang Kanchanaburi police station, was alerted of the accident on […]
Read MoreForeign tourist seen driving on the wrong side of the road in Chiang Mai
ATTRACTING critical comments is a video clip that had been shared by a Facebook member showing a foreign tourist driving on the wrong side of a road that winds up and down a hill in Chiang Mai province and only switching to the left lane after almost hitting a motorcyclist, Amarin TV said today […]
Read MoreDouble trouble for sedan hit by uninsured police bus
GOING VIRAL on Thai social media today (May 15) is the account of a Bangkok sedan driver who after being hit by an uninsured police bus was urged by the policemen in the large vehicle to agree to being hit again by an insured white van so as to claim insurance payment, Matichon newspaper […]
Read MoreTraffic misery at Asoke-Phetchaburi intersection after bad accident
THERE were terrible traffic jams at Asoke-Phetchaburi intersection early this morning (May 11) after some steel beams fell off a truck and hit a sedan following behind but fortunately no one was injured, Thai Rath and Sanook.com said. Pol. Lt. Col. Thanawat Wiphatothai, a deputy inspector at Makkasan police station, was alerted of this […]
Read MorePM furious over critics focusing on his rich and poor comment
PRIME MINISTER Prayut Chan-o-cha is fuming over social media critics targetting his comment on the rich and poor using the expressway and public roads which he pointed out is a misinterpretation, Sanook.com said today (Dec. 5) In the speech Gen. Prayut gave at the opening of the Suk Pracha Romklao Housing Project at one point […]
Read MoreRoyal Irrigation Department admits building road in the middle of rice fields
AMID an outcry from Yasothon province villagers that a road had been built in the middle of their rice fields that does not connect any villages and leads to a dead-end with the solar lights damaging their paddy crops, the Royal Irrigation Department yesterday (Nov. 29) admitted that it was their project, Sanook.com said […]
Read MoreBaffling road to nowhere built in the middle of rice fields
NORTHEASTERN YASOTHON province residents are perplexed at the construction of a road along an irrigation canal in the middle of rice fields that leads to nowhere with no government agency claiming responsibility for having built it, Amarin TV said today (Nov. 27). Mr. Adul Wandee, director of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) office in […]
Read More3 young girls die after crashing their motorbike into a parked trailer-truck
TWO teenage sisters and their 11-year-old cousin died last evening (Nov. 20) in Roi Et province after slamming their motorcycle into a parked trailer-truck that had neither hazard nor rear lights on, Thai Rath newspaper said today . Heart-broken relatives attended the funeral service at Wat Samkha, Samkha subdistrict, Phon Sai district, for Miss […]
Read MoreWoman driver plunges into construction ditch with no warning signs around
A 70-year-old woman drove her car into a ditch that had been dug to lay water mains at the Ratchada-Tha Phra underpass construction site last night with this leaving both her and her son injured, Sanook.com and TV Channel 7 said today (April 9). Mrs. Khemkorn Kongthananon, 70, the driver is still in shock. She […]
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