Singaporean driver killed, seven others hurt in Phuket traffic accident
A Singaporean woman was killed and seven others, including her four compatriots, injured when a car she was driving hit a small tour bus while coming downhill on a hilly road in Muang district on Friday (Aug 12) night.
The accident was reported around 10.50pm, said Police Captain Charnnarong Prakhongkua, an investigation officer at Karon police station.
Police, disaster prevention and mitigation officials and rescue workers arrived at the scene and found a badly damaged Toyota Yaris with Phuket licence plates and a small white bus with Phuket licence plates and a broken windscreen on Patak Road in tambon Karon.
A preliminary investigation found that the car was traveling from the town of Chalong to Karon in Phuket. While the car was coming downhill, the driver lost control of her vehicle, causing it to hit the bus, which had earlier taken a group of tourists to Kata beach.
The impact of the crash caused five Singaporean tourists including the driver, the bus driver and two guides to sustain injuries.
The injured from both vehicles were rushed to Chalong and Vachira Phuket hospitals.
The Singaporean woman driver was unconscious at the scene and succumbed to her injuries on the way to the hospital.
On Saturday, Pol Lt Ekkachai Siri, a Phuket Tourist Police inspector, disclosed details of the dead and injured victims in the crash.
The driver who was killed was identified as Ho Jia Hui Renee, 21. The four other injured Singaporeans, two men and two women, were Bryan Teo Li Yan, 30, Poh Mao Xin, 30, Pang Jiang Ning Eliana, 21, and Ng Ja Xin, 66.
The three injured people in the bus were bus driver Anirut Chomcherd, 32, Nuengruethai Raknawa, 43, and South Korean woman Sang-min Lee, 41.
A police investigation is ongoing to find the exact cause of the crash.
SOURCE: NEWS AGENCIES