"van accident"

A passenger van driver and nine passengers were injured when the vehicle careened off the Asian Highway in Songkhla around lunchtime on Sunday.

Eight Myanmar migrants drowned and two others are missing presumed dead after a van they were travelling in was hit by a 10-wheel truck and both vehicles plunged into a canal in Kanchanaburi's Tha Muang district on Saturday.

Traffic was slowed on lower Sukhumvit Road in Bangkok Sunday morning when a public-transport van smashed into the staircase of the Udomsuk Skytrain station at about 7am.

THE CHANTHABURI Provincial Court yesterday ordered Transport Co Ltd, a state enterprise, to pay Bt26-million compensation for 25 deaths caused by a van accident last year.

Ten young students were slightly injured when a school van hit a sidecar and fell into a roadside ditch in Nakhon Ratchasima’s Kong district late Wednesday afternoon.

A chartered van taking tourists to Doi Ang Khang ran off the road and flipped, injuring the driver and seven tourists on Monday morning, officials said.