Bang Len: A pickup truck carrying Myanmar migrant workers sped away from a police patrol in Bang Len District, Nakhon Pathom Province. The vehicle skidded off a curve while driving down a bridge, lost control, hit an electric pole, and fell into a ditch, killing all 7 people in the vehicle.

According to Thai News Agency, rescuers and first responders are helping to pull a pickup truck out of a ditch at the curve of Wat Ko Raet on the Bang Len-Don Tum road in Bang Len district, Nakhon Pathom province. They are using lights and cutting equipment to try to pull out two people trapped in the vehicle. However, when they were able to get them out, they found that the people trapped in the vehicle had died on the spot. An inspection of the 4-meter wide and 2-meter deep ditch found the bodies of five more men and women.

Initial investigations found that the deceased were five women and two men, all of whom were Burmese nationals. One of them had a temporary driver’s license and owned a car. The deceased had many it
ems of property, including cash totaling more than ten thousand baht. In addition, there were fertilizer bags, mosquito nets, clothes, water buckets, and kitchen equipment floating on the surface of the water and on the road, as if they were all heading across provinces to work or returning to their residences.

However, this incident occurred because the Myanmar group drove past a convenience store in front of the Bang Len Electricity Office, 6 kilometers from the scene of the incident. At that moment, they encountered a police patrol. When the patrol saw something suspicious, they asked to search them, but the driver sped away at high speed. The officers radioed to intercept them, but when they reached the bridge with a curve, the pickup truck lost control, went off the sharp curve, and hit a high-voltage electric pole. The car then plunged into a roadside ditch, killing everyone in the car.