Fatal Lopburi road accident takes two lives

A devastating road accident has claimed the lives of 59 year old Read and his 74 year old relative, Paew, as they were travelling to a temple in Lopburi province’s Khok Samrong district to attend a relative’s funeral. The incident occurred on Suranarai road, between kilometres 27 to 28, in Paniat subdistrict yesterday.

The road accident site on the four-lane road, near a U-turn spot of Paniat’s administrative organisation, bore witness to the wreckage of a black Nissan pickup truck with the registration number Bong-1359 from Phetchabun. The left front end of the vehicle showed signs of a serious collision, and its windshield was shattered. In the middle of the road lay a wrecked black and red Honda Wave motorcycle, registration number 1Kor-4598 of Lopburi, which was heavily damaged and toppled over.

Read, the motorbike rider, suffered severe…