Thread: Nam Tok train crushes Dutch tourist to death in grisly accident

A Dutch tourist was killed when he slipped from the stairs of a moving Nam Tok train and fell on the tracks and ground over by its wheels.

The grisly incident happened 4.00 pm today at Ban Pupong station in Sai Yok district of Kanchanburi on the Nam Tok-Thonburi train.

Police identified the tourist as Mr Hieronymus Cornelis Maria, 52.

Sai Yok police said the Dutch man and his family left Nam Tok station for Thonburi station in Bangkok at about 3.30 pm on No 486 diesel train.

As the train was leaving Ban Pupong station, witnesses said he was seen falling down from the stairs of the moving train and trapped in between two train carriages. He was dragged onto the tracks and ground by the running wheels on the middle of the body.

The incident was the third involving the Thonburi-Nam Tok train in a month.

Nam Tok train crushes Dutch tourist to death in grisly accident - Thai PBS English News

The pattern continues.

https://teakdoor.com/thailand-and-asi...ml#post2908329 (Greek Diplomat Killed at Kanchanaburi Nam Tok Station By Train)

Death railway, yes.

Dutch. Outside smoking a cigarette?

"Please be seated until the aircraft/train has come to a complete stop" Nobody fecking listens or complies.

Sorry mate but...

Second one in as many weeks....wife says: Idiots.

Originally Posted by ltnt

.wife says: Idiots.

agreed.

but RIP to the family, nonetheless.

Originally Posted by kingwilly

but RIP to the family

Did they die as well?

^Not yet, but the train hasn't yet reached their final destination...Hope is worth nothing, RIP even less.

Sympathy might be the word I was looking for.

Bangkok Post is reporting another death this morning on the same line.

Originally Posted by kingwilly

Sympathy might be the word I was looking for.

sure it is..Sympathy is found in the dictionary between Syphilis and Shit.

^At least it's still there...