Huge concrete slab falls onto Bangkok’s Rama II Road killing construction worker

A huge slab of concrete fell from the under-construction expressway elevated over the Rama II Road yesterday in Bangkok, Thailand, crushing one construction worker to death, injuring one person and damaging eight cars.

At 5pm, officers at Tha Kham Police Station were informed that a concrete beam fell and killed someone along the outbound Rama II Road opposite the Snake Shrine in Samae Dan subdistrict, Bang Khun district.

Police found a concrete beam three metres wide by 10 metres long weighing several tonnes lying in the middle of the busy road.

The beam crushed 54 year old Worawut Pannon, a construction worker from Nong Bua Lamphu province, to death.

Eight cars, four on the inbound road and four on the outbound road, were damaged. One man, 40 year old Sumeth Kirimek, said he was driving back from Hua Hin when he suddenly swerved to avoid being hit by the…