31 injured when bus overturned in Nakhon Ratchasima
Thirty one passengers have been injured, two critically, when a Nong Khai-Rayong inter-provincial bus overturned in Nakhon Ratchasima early this morning.
Police and rescue workers were alerted at 2.40am to the scene on Mitraparp Highway in Ban Don Tabaeng, Noen Sung district in Nakhon Ratchasima.
The blue and white air conditioned bus was carrying 41 passengers.
Police suspect that the driver, whose name has been withheld at this stage, dozed off behind the wheel.
This is the third major inter-provincial bus crash within a week around Thailand, that we know of.
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