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Chon Buri pickup truck crash kills elderly man and injures 4 others

Chon Buri pickup truck crash, photo by TMN Cable TV Pattaya.

A Chon Buri pickup truck crash killed one person and injured four others on Monday. The crash happened when one pickup truck rear-ended another on 344 Road in the Nong Phai Kaeo sub-district of Ban Bueng district.

Rescuers arrived on the scene to find a grey Mitsubishi with a demolished bumper and a bronze Toyota Revo lying upside down. Rescuers were able to get four people, including the driver, out of the Mitsubishi. All of the victims sustained injuries, with one person suffering a broken leg. The four were brought to Ban Bueng Hospital.

The situation took a turn for the worse when rescuers discovered a man, 70 year old Pongsak Preamsakchai, trapped beneath one of the pickups. They asked a crane truck stuck in traffic nearby to move the wreckage to rescue Preamsakchai. However, he later succumbed to his injuries upon…

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