Train vs truck: 6 dead, 20 critical
A man surveys the scene following a collision between a train and a truck in Ratchaburi’s Muang district yesterday. The accident killed six people and injured 50 others.
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Six people were killed and almost 50 others injured after a train heading from northern Malaysia to Bangkok slammed into a truck yesterday in Ratchaburi's Muang district, police said.
The express train from the Malaysian town of Butterworth with more than 400 passengers onboard crashed into a speeding 10-wheel truck that had broken through barriers at a rail crossing in attempt to beat the train, said Lt-Colonel Kiattipong Damrongchaiwong of Muang Ratchaburi police station.Three passengers on the train, including a foreign woman, and three people in the truck were killed and almost 50 were injured - 20 are still in a critical condition, the officer said. The train was carrying mostly civil servants and foreigners, as well as 20 people headed for the anti-government rally in Bangkok, a railway officer said. The accident stopped traffic on the rail line leading south from Bangkok, as work crews removed the train's locomotive and four bogies that had skewed off the rails on impact. Sanith Prapasawat, a railway official leading the repair team, said it would take until midnight to clear the wreck and repair the track so that the line could be reopened. He said the cost of the damage was estimated at Bt10 million. The NationRatchaburi
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