"truck crashes"

Deciding it was better to hit a police booth than several motorcyclists, a truck driver aimed his out-of-control 10-wheeler at the cop kiosk in Muang Nakhon Ratchasima on Monday morning, to the considerable horror of the policeman inside.

A pick-up truck carrying 30 smuggled Cambodian workers crashed into a power pole and fell into a roadside ditch early yesterday, killing six passengers and injuring 24 others.