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Police rushed to the accident scene near Simathani Hotel on Mitraparb Road at 2am on Saturday to find the coach about to plunge down eight metres down an embankment. Police found the body of Jessada Wiraman, 58, in the wrecked bus and nearby was the body of Ratri Duangkangtai, 42, who was thrown from the bus by the impact. Rescue workers rushed all the injured, including a five-year-old boy, to nearby hospitals.

Driver Watchara Jaichuang, 35, who suffered a broken leg, told police a tyre on the left side of the bus exploded while the bus was speeding towards the elevated bridge, causing him to loose control of the vehicle which was fully loaded with passengers from Mor Chit bus terminal. Police detained the driver for further investigation. 

Earlier, another accident took place in Loei's Nong Hin sub-district. Two people were killed and ten injured after a speeding Mitsubishi pickup truck collided with an Isuzu D-Max pickup truck at an intersection on Maliwan Road.

A following pickup truck then rammed into the rear of the Mitsubishi truck, with the impact sending it head-on into the path of a passing by 18-wheel truck. Rescue workers managed to pull the injured out of the wrecked vehicles at 3am, but the Isuzu truck driver Somdee Chaisad, 66, and passenger Tinnakorn Sodama died on the way to hospital.