Building Collapses On Beach Road Pattaya Injuring 3 Food Sellers

**dirtydog** · 10-11-2009, 07:10 PM

BUILDING COLLAPSES ON BEACH ROAD PATTAYA INJURING 3 FOOD SELLERS

The ceiling of the 2nd floor of a building over 20 years old collapsed on top of a small street side restaurant injuring 3 people. One of them sustained severe skull injuries, and broken legs and arms. The Director of Building Permits for Pattaya divulged that the building has been extended at some point without proper authorization.

Pattaya, 10th of November 2009 (PDN): At 14.30 today, Police Lieutenant General Chonphat Nualaks from Pattaya Police Station, received a report that an accident had occurred in a 10-floor building located right next to Central Festival, Pattaya Beach Road. After the report, Pol. Lt. Gen. Chonphat Nualaks along with Pol. Lt. Gen. Sutham Charsrithong and the Sawang Boriboon Rescue team, rushed to the scene of the incident. Mr. Pichet Uthai Watananon, the Director for Building Permit in Pattaya also attended the scene.

When they arrived, they found 3 wounded food sellers, who had been trapped under the cement ceiling of the 2nd floor of the building after it had collapsed. The Sawang Boriboon Rescue Team then quickly took them to the nearest hospitals. Two of the injured went to the Pattaya Memorial Hospital and the other to the Bangkok Pattaya Hospital.

Mr. Pichet Uthai Watananon, Director of Building Permits for Pattaya, came to investigate on the scene along with officials of the Common Grounds of Pattaya. They came to retrieve the remains of the mess and to close the immediate area from the public, due to safety concerns with the many gas bottles that fallen as a result of the collapse. The immediate area has now been secured.

Mr. Pichet divulged that the building was over 20 years old and is presently under a court case. Pattaya City investigated on the building to find out if it was still conforming to the legislation it was under. They found out that the part of the building that collapsed, an extension of the 2nd floor, was not conforming to the legislation and had been extended without the proper authorization.

Ms. Sumalee Hongsa, age 52 of the Pattaya area, was severely wounded with skull fractures and a broken left leg and right arm. Miss Suay (last name unknown), age 23, from Burma, suffered only minor injuries and Ms. Samran Totkeow, age 40, from Surin, also sustained only minor injuries. All three women were involved with selling food under the side of the building that collapsed.

Pattaya Daily News

**Fondles** · 10-11-2009, 07:15 PM

fuckin lovely, NOT, dodgy fucks !!

**Loy Toy** · 10-11-2009, 07:17 PM

Doesn't look like the accident happened on beach road but it certainly is a miracle that people survived the collapse let alone the fact nobody was killed.

**Stinky** · 10-11-2009, 07:18 PM

That could have been a lot worse than it was, hope the old Thai guy makes it.

**superman** · 10-11-2009, 07:28 PM

Originally Posted by Sdigit

That could have been a lot worse than it was

Yeh I know, I could have been there.

**Chairman Mao** · 10-11-2009, 07:32 PM

One of them sustained severe skull injuries, and broken legs and arms.

That's gonna hurt in the morning.

Prolly only a fruit seller. 3 months wages of 6k a month will cover his compo.

**Fuzzy Bob** · 10-11-2009, 07:41 PM

**Stinky** · 10-11-2009, 07:54 PM

Originally Posted by superman

Originally Posted by Sdigit

That could have been a lot worse than it was

Yeh I know, I could have been there.

Amen to that, any one of us could get fucked up in a heart beat.
Ah well no sense in dwelling on it

**withnallstoke** · 10-11-2009, 07:55 PM

**cambtek** · 10-11-2009, 08:01 PM

Thats not a ceiling,thats a concrete slab or actually a soffit.
Amazing it lasted twenty years-who need those fuddy duddy building permit things?
What would an engineer know anyway?

**Mad Hatter** · 10-11-2009, 09:55 PM

Originally Posted by withnallstoke

What is a 'cieling'? I think we should be told. MH.

**Jeremia** · 10-11-2009, 10:44 PM

Its a newborn Ciel...

**StrontiumDog** · 10-11-2009, 11:21 PM

It's amazing how they discover after the accident that it was an illegal extension. It's not as if he was a well hidden building down some dark and dingy soi. I guess no one checks here. Amazing Thailand.

**Fabian** · 11-11-2009, 12:28 AM

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

Doesn't look like the accident happened on beach road

Obviously the soi left to the Central Festival center but very close to beach road.

**Loy Toy** · 11-11-2009, 12:38 AM

Originally Posted by Fabian

Obviously the soi left to the Central Festival center but very close to beach road.

Correct and lucky it did not happen on Beach Road as reported as loss of life would of been highly likely.

What are these chinese blokes pointing and looking at anyway?

**StrontiumDog** · 11-11-2009, 02:22 AM

He's saying..

"I was right, I knew it was bloody illegal"

Or

"Som nom na"

**thehighlander959** · 11-11-2009, 04:57 AM

It must have been the Burmese girl who was injured no thai would get involved in dodgy building work.

**withnallstoke** · 11-11-2009, 06:55 AM

Originally Posted by Mad Hatter

What is a 'cieling'? I think we should be told. MH.

Originally Posted by Jeremia

Its a newborn Ciel...

Sorry about the spelling - bloody keyboards dyxsleic.

**Fuzzy Bob** · 12-11-2009, 01:52 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSX-voPh1YI

Police were notified on the afternoon of the 10th November that an empty hotel on Second Road had collapsed and there were many injuries at the scene. Police and Sawang Boriboon medics rushed to Soi 9 off Second Road to find the front of the building had completely collapsed. There were 4 people injured and were given immediate First Aid before taken to the nearby Memorial and Bangkok Hospital Pattaya Hospitals. The 9 storey hotel had been closed for renovation and is also involved in a legal dispute between the directors. A witness stated that she noticed a piece of cement fell to the ground, when suddenly the whole terrace front collapsed and fell onto the victims below. Police investigators made a preliminary examination of the damage before a thorough investigation takes place as to why the building collapsed.

Hotel Collapses - Pattaya People newspaper Thailand

**dan54** · 12-11-2009, 09:34 PM

hey want to try putting some steel in with the concrete it might stay up

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