1 dead and 11 injured in Saraburi bus crash

A bus crashed into two cars and a truck, killing one person and wounding 11 on Sunday, police say.

The accident happened early Sunday when the bus heading to Bangkok from Roi Et’s Chaturaphak Phiman district, slammed into a pickup truck on Phahon Yothin Road in Saraburi.

The bus then lost control and veered across the traffic island into an opposing lane and hit an oncoming car and a lorry, police said. The lorry driver, Kan Maphet, 35, was killed on the spot. Eleven people, including passengers of the bus and two other cars, were injured and taken to hospital.

Police believed the bus driver, identified as Anurak Watphimai, 28, might have dozed off behind the wheel, the Bangkok Post reported.




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