Tag: crash
Bride dies, groom badly injured in car crash
JUST 10 days before their wedding a young couple driving a pick-up van back home in Suphan Buri crashed into a tree after slipping off the road in heavy rain seriously injuring both of them but bride later died in the hospital, Sanook.com said this afternoon (Oct. 27). Pol. Capt. Ritpong Mapakhe, an investigating officer …
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Foreigner kills two teenage girls in Songkhla crash
AN AUSTRALIAN man driving a sport utility vehicle on a Songkhla road hit a motorcycle on which three female teenage students were riding, killing two of them and seriously injuring the third girl, Amarin TV said yesterday (Sept. 2). This TV channel’s reporters went to the spot of the accident on Chalatat road in …
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Trat police giving free helmets to those caught not wearing one
INSTEAD of fining riders caught not wearing a crash helmet, police in southern Trat province today (July 27) began giving the traffic violators one each free of charge to ensure their safety in case of an accident, Naewna newspaper said. Pol. Col. Somchai Yusawat, deputy chief of Trat Provincial Police, together with Pol. Lt. …
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Crypto weekend meltdown: Bitcoin price touches $17k, Ethereum below $900
By Anna Golubova, Kitco News THE crypto space faced another sharp selloff during the weekend as Bitcoin plunged below $18,000 and Ethereum dropped below $900. The overall crypto market cap plummeted to $847 billion, down nearly 10% on the day. Bitcoin touched $17,677, the lowest level since November 2020, and Ethereum fell to a low …
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Bitcoin falls 14% after crypto lender Celsius Network freezes withdrawals
By Reuters and published by Euronews.next CRYPTOCURRENCY lending firm Celsius Network will pause withdrawals and transfers between accounts due to “extreme market conditions”, the company said on Monday, in the latest sign of pressure in the crypto industry. The world’s largest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, extended earlier declines after the announcement, falling more than 10 per …
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China Eastern Boeing 737 crashes with 132 aboard
By CNBC CHINA’S aviation authority has confirmed that a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737 passenger plane has crashed, with 132 people on board, including 123 passengers and 9 crew members. Contact was lost with the flight over Wuzhou, in the Guangxi region, the authority said. It was scheduled to fly from Kunming to Guangzhou. The …
5 dead, 20 injured as tour bus crashes into bridge in Saraburi
A TOUR BUS got badly damaged and tilted after crashing into a bridge at its entrance ramp in Saraburi province at around 3 p.m. today (Mar. 12) killing five passengers and leaving 20 other injured, Matichon newspaper said. The driver of the Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi tour bus, owned by Sahaphan Roiet Tour Co., Ltd., lost control of …
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Driver in expressway crash that killed 3 persons was intoxicated
A YOUNG man who slammed his new Mercedes Benz sedan into another sedan on the expressway killing three people at around 1 a.m. this morning (Dec. 18) had higher than the legal limit of blood alcohol content, Siam Rath newspaper said. The accident occurred at Si Rat expressway heading for the motorway on the …
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Elderly Frenchman blacks out, hits 10 vehicles in Pattaya
A 78-year-old Frechman lost control of his pickup truck and hit a food vendor’s tricycle, seriously injuring her, then slammed into over 10 other motorcycles and cars parked at the side of a Pattaya road after apparently blacking out, Sanook.com said this afternoon (Aug. 18). Pol. Col. Chonlawit Athipansi, deputy inspector for Investigation at Pattaya …
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Family searches for owner of vehicle left overturned at fence for months
A YOUNG Man posted an online message that he is looking for the owner of a pickup truck that has remained overturned at the fence of his relative’s house for months now after zooming across and turning turtle, Sanook.com said today (June 20). Writing on a Facebook page under the name Bird Klong Yai, …
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Ex-provincial council member dies in car crash
A SEDAN driven by a former Provincial Administration Council member in Sukhothai province who was on his way to meet his girlfriend in the dead night burst into flames after slamming into a roadside tree killing him on the spot, Thai Rath newspaper reported today (Dec. 30, 2020). Mr. Siraphop Limpapan, or Sor Jor Diao, …
YouTube back up after worldwide outage
By Reuters staff, published by Hindustan Times, and Daily Express YOUTUBE, owned by Alphabet Inc’s Google , said late on Wednesday it had fixed a glitch that led to a worldwide outage of the video-streaming service. DownDetector.com, a website which monitors outages, showed nearly 286,000 incidents of people reporting issues with the service. The issue …
Young girl is with dad at ICU, not told mum died in horror crash
AMONG the relatives watching over 10 of 42 people still hospitalized after yesterday’s horror train and bus collision that killed 18 travellers is a five-year-old girl who came with her grandfather to be with her dad who is in the intensive care unit, Thai Rath newspaper reported today (Oct. 12, 2020). Mr. Vej Phukongpha, the …
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Doctor in high-speed crash tried to save victim’s life
A DOCTOR who appeared drunk and refused a breath test tried to save the life of a motorcyclist he hit but upon failing to do so, dashed off to his hospital, Sanook.com reported today (Oct. 10, 2020). The chain reaction collision occurred at 3.45 a.m. on the outbound side of Phaholyothin road in front of …
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Driver flees blazing car after crash
POLICE are searching for the owner of an Opel sedan who was seen in a surveillance camera clip fleeing after miraculously getting out of his vehicle that caught fire moments after he had smashed it against a road barrier, Thai Rath newspaper reported this morning (Oct. 5, 2020). Pol. Lt. Col. Wuttikorn Yuensuk, an investigator …
Star in car crash got ‘general’ dad to threaten police station
A POPULAR Thai star who hit another vehicle while driving drunk early this morning (Sept. 8) got a man who claimed to be his father and a general in the army to threaten the policeman, who tried to get him take a breathalyzer test, that he would transfer the whole station, Siam Rath newspaper reported. …
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Young man dies in car crash on slippery road
AN EARLY MORNING accident on a rain-drenched slippery road led to a young man who was driving fast from Nonthaburi to Pathum Thani province dying in the wreck of his sedan, Thai Rath newspaper reported today (Sept. 6, 2020). Pol. Maj. Prasit Kongnayot, an investigator at Chaiyapruek station, Pak Kret district, Nonthaburi province, rushed to …
Speeding teens badly injured in Motorway accident
THREE of five high school students out for a night on the town ended up getting severely injured as they raced back home from Pattaya to Chonburi province after their sedan flipped over on the Motorway, Sanook.com reported today (July 5, 2020). At 1.30 a.m. this morning Pol Lt Col Suyin Inchuay, investigation inspector at …