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Truck rear-ends 15 vehicles, one person killed

Damaged vehicles block the highway after a trailer truck crashed into them on a downhill slope of the Mitrapap highway in Nakhon Ratchasima’s Pak Chong district on Sunday night. Fifteen other vehicles were damaged, one person killed and six others injured. (Photo: Koophai Klangdong)

NAKHON RATCHASIMA: A 22-wheel trailer truck with a drunk driver at the wheel crashed into 15 other vehicles on a downhill stretch of the Mitrapap highway in Pak Chong district on Sunday night, killing one person and injuring six others, police said.

The accident occurred about 7.20pm on the Saraburi-bound side of the highway between kilometre markers 36-37 in tambon Phayayen. It caused about two hours of traffic congestion.

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