Phuket car care lasts 10 minutes

PHUKET: A local resident at Nai Yang Beach, on Phuket’s west coast, yesterday spent 20 minutes waiting for a team of car detailers to perfect the shine on his white Toyota Fortuner – only then to roll the vehicle upside-down into a ditch 10 minutes later.

Concerned villagers called the Kusoldharm Foundation at 10:45am, reporting a car had crashed into a ditch on the airport spur road, joining Thepkrsattri Road in Mai Khao and Phuket International Airport.

Arriving at the scene, about two kilometers from Thalang Technical College (map here), rescue workers found Thawee Jadsanam, 46, standing beside the vehicle scratching his head.

“I had just been to a car care place down the road. I was heading home to Nai Yang when I went to turn left onto the main road,” Mr Thawee said.

“My front left wheel went into a ditch. I couldn’t brake in time and my car flipped into it,” he explained.

“I didn’t see the ditch because there’s a lot of high grass covering it,” Mr Thawee added.

Mr Thawee suffered no injuries in the incident.

He called his car insurance company, which dispatched a truck to recover the vehicle.

— Thawit Bilabdullar