Nominations: Thai driver of the day
A quick scan of some Thai news sites and some impressive driving feats, including this from Bangkok last night - bus too high!
Driver looks quite relaxed in second picture.
12 foreign tourists on the upper level were injured, three hospitalised.
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Thairath and Khaosod
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33 in a minivan
Driver and 32 Myanmar workers in a minivan near Khampaeng Phet
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Thairath
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35 in a minivan
and this one - going for the record - a driver and 34 Myanmar workers crowded into a Toyota van
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Thairath
Tourist Bus Cut In Half 11 Injured , Big Bus , Small Entrance.
BANGKOK, 9 October 2013 (NNT) – Makkasan Police Station officers received an emergency call that a tour bus had hit a height-limit steel beam before crossing over the Asok intersection bridge on Phetchaburi Rd.
The accident involved a tour bus belonging to the Phongprasert Tour Company. The vehicle was found wrecked with its top ripped open after hitting the steel beam.
12 people were injured in the accident, amongst the injured were 11 European tourists and 1 tour guide, all of whom had been setting on the top deck of the tour bus.
Investigators will now call in the driver of the tour bus for a questioning session. From investigating the scene, police presume that the driver was not aware of the steel beam.
European Tourists Injured After Tour Bus Hits Steel Beam | Pattaya Daily News - Pattaya Newspaper, Powerful news at your fingertips
Nominations: Thai driver of the day - 15 October
Drunk driver faces fines for railway trespass
A drunken man who drove his car onto railway tracks in the early hours of Monday morning is facing hefty fines and police charges, after his antics caused train delays of almost two hours.
Korakot Rakwongpat has been charged on three counts. The 24-year-old driver will be fined 1,000 baht for reckless driving, 500 baht for driving a car with a red license plate at night and another 20,000 baht for driving under the influence of alcohol.
At 5.45am Monday, Traffic radio Jor Sor 100 reported that six men, believed to be intoxicated, had been seen driving a brand new Honda CRV on the rail tracks at Rong Poon intersection, to the back of Petcharavej hospital on Phetchaburi Road.
The car became stuck, so a rescue team of more than 20 men were called in to move the car off the tracks. They spent about two hours trying to move the vehicle, but were unsuccessful. They eventually instructed the driver go backwards along the rails to the spot where he first entered the tracks.
Mr Korakot told police that he and his friends had been to a nightclub at RCA and then to get some food, before the accident occurred on their drive home to Phasi Charoen district in Thon Buri.
He initially claimed that he had been lost and decided to drive on the tracks believing it would lead him to an exit that he might recognise. Police tested him for alcohol and found he had consumed far more than the legal limit.
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