Two Russians killed in Pattaya car accident

CHON BURI: Two Russian nationals – a man and a woman – were killed after a car they were travelling in crashed into a palm tree on the median strip of Sukhumvit road in Bang Lamung district early on Sunday.

Pol Capt Cholwit Athipansee, a Muang Pattaya police duty investigator, said the accident was reported to the police station at about 5am.

Police, accompanied by medics and rescuers, rushed to the spot on the Sattahip-bound side of Sukhumvit road opposite Soi Sukhumvit Pattaya 87 or Soi Nong Krabok in tambon Nong Prue.

They found a Bangkok-registered Toyota Altis had violently crashed into a palm tree on the median strip. The car was badly damaged and its parts scattered all over both sides of the road.

Rescuers forced open the car with hydraulic jacks and moved a man and a woman, who were then still alive, out of the wreck. The two died later from serious…