PHOTOS: Shh! have been killed and 4 others seriously injured after a chartered van carrying Lao workers collided with an 18 wheel truck in Sa Kaew province, east of Bangkok on the Cambodian border, early at present (map below).
The Nation reviews that they have been travelling to the Chanthaburi immigration checkpoint to renew their visas.
Police suspect the Thai van driver, Sansern Sathongkhan, may need dozed off behind the wheel, and pushed the passenger van into the alternative lane where it crashed head-on with the oncoming 18 wheel truck.
Police and rescue staff rushed to the scene at 4.15am on the Sakaew-Chanthaburi Road part of the highway near the entrance to the Wang Somboon District Office.
They found the lifeless bodies of the van driver and Lao passengers, a lot of whom have been crushed in the wrecked van while others were flung out of the van with the drive of the influence. Rescue workers were able to remove 4 critically wounded folks from the wreckage, together with three Lao passengers and the truck driver, Subin Pengmoo, to hurry them to the district hospital.
SOURCE: The Nation