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Phuket car accident: Retired officer’s wife crashes into vegetarian festival stalls

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A severe car accident in Phuket’s Talat Nuea district left one person dead and eight others injured. The incident involved a Mercedes Benz, driven by the wife of a retired senior police officer, who claimed she experienced dizziness and a blackout and mistook the accelerator for the brake, leading to the fatal crash.

The Phuket car accident occurred on Ranong Road, a one-way street lined with several vegetarian food stalls ahead of the annual vegetarian festival.

The Mercedes Benz C300, in a silver bronze colour, lost control and collided with pedestrians, a pickup truck, motorcycles, and food stalls. The front of the car was significantly damaged, the bumper dislodged, and the driver-side windscreen shattered, leaving a hole the size of a human head.

Today, reporters at the scene described the aftermath of the car accident. The area had been cleared, and the…

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