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  • Pattaya NewsDrunk driver plunges into parked cars in Pattaya, one person seriously injured
    ThaigerPublished: 09:25, 04 August 2019
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    Drunk driver plunges into parked cars in Pattaya, one person seriously injured

    PHOTOS & VIDEO: The Pattaya News A man remains in hospital after a drunk driver lost control of his vehicle and plunged into parked vehicles on the other side of the road. Three other vehicles have also been damaged in the early morning incident on Pattaya Sai 3 Road in North Pattaya. Pattaya City Police were notified of the incident…

  • Thailand NewsThai workers killed in van crash in South Korea
    ThaigerPublished: 16:05, 23 July 2019
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    Thai workers killed in van crash in South Korea

    PHOTO: Thaikuknews Two Thai citizens have been killed in South Korea after their passenger van carrying 16 people skidded off a mountain road heading to a farm. The Korean Times reports that the two Thais, the van driver and another passenger were seriously injured after the van crashed through a guard rail. Nine other people, of mixed nationalities, were in the…

  • Chiang Mai NewsChiang Mai teenager survives big bike collision but loses leg – VIDEO
    ThaigerPublished: 10:10, 08 July 2019
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    Chiang Mai teenager survives big bike collision but loses leg – VIDEO

    A 13 year old Chiang Mai teenager is lucky to escape with his life after a high-speed crash in front of the Sri Arun Market in the San Kampaeng district of Chiang Mai. The person posting video of the incident estimated he was traveling at 150 kph when he hit another motorbike, before sliding into a car at high speed.…

  • Northern Thailand NewsSeven injured after bus rolls over in Sisaket bus incident
    ThaigerPublished: 14:15, 13 June 2019
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    Seven injured after bus rolls over in Sisaket bus incident

    PHOTOS: หมวดทางหลวงภูสิงห์ Seven passengers have sustained injuries in a bus accident in Sisaket, far-east Thailand. Emergency responders were notified of the accident on No 24 Road in Sisaket yesterday. They arrived at the scene to find the bus rolled over in the centre-road ditch. The bus was heading from Bangkok to Ubon Ratcha Thani and carrying 15 passengers. Seven passengers…

  • Bangkok NewsTaxi drives on wrong side of the road, collides with sedan, injures two
    ThaigerPublished: 08:09, 10 June 2019
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    Taxi drives on wrong side of the road, collides with sedan, injures two

    Two people have been injured after a Toyota Camry crashed into a taxi driving the wrong way along a road in Pathum Thani’s Lat Lum Kaew district, just north of Bangkok. The sedan overturned from the impact, injuring both the 38 year old driver Tamisa Pengchaem and front-seat passenger, 31 year old Amorn Yindeemak. The 42 year old taxi driver Weerachai…

  • Phuket News19 year old dies after big bike accident in Kathu, Phuket
    ThaigerPublished: 09:32, 07 June 2019
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    19 year old dies after big bike accident in Kathu, Phuket

    PHOTOS: เทศกิจ 201(กะทู้) อุทิศ 5811 / อาสาของประชาชน A 19 year old was pronounced dead at Vachira Phuket Hospital after being seriously injured in a sports bike (Honda CB 650cc) accident in Kathu. Rescue workers report that they were notified of the accident at 1.45pm yesterday on the Phra Phuket Kaew Road near Bang Jak petrol station. Emergency responders arrived at the…

  • Phuket NewsUPDATE: Total 4 deaths in Phang Nga Chinese tour bus crash
    Kritsada MueanhawongPublished: 11:32, 21 May 2019
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    UPDATE: Total 4 deaths in Phang Nga Chinese tour bus crash

    One person died at the scene yesterday while another three have since died in hospital. Nine other people sustained injuries in yesterday’s incident in Phang Nga when a pick-up, careering out of control, crossed the median strip, took out a motorbike, and then crashed head-on into a tour bus. Newshawk Phuket reports that emergency responders were notified of the incident…

  • Phuket NewsOne dead, many injured in Phang Nga bus crash
    ThaigerPublished: 10:28, 20 May 2019
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    One dead, many injured in Phang Nga bus crash

    PHOTOS: Newshawk Phuket One person has been found dead while many others have sustained injuries in a Phang Nga bus collision this morning. Newshawk Phuket reports that emergency responders were notified of the incident this morning on Phet Kasem Road, southbound, in Borsane, Thapput in Phang Nga. The collision was between the the tour bus and a silver pick-up. Both…

  • Hot NewsBoeing knew about problems with 737 Max 8 jets before second crash
    ThaigerPublished: 09:34, 16 May 2019
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    Boeing knew about problems with 737 Max 8 jets before second crash

    PHOTO: American Airlines They knew because plenty of pilots told them, on tape. In the months between the two Boeing 737 Max airplane crashes, pilots from American Airlines confronted a Boeing official about the controversial MCAS computerised anti-stall system that preliminary reports have now implicated in both deadly wrecks. The audio of the meeting has been obtained by the US’…

  • Northern Thailand NewsHead-on collision kills five, injures three in Khon Kaen
    ThaigerPublished: 13:37, 15 May 2019
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    Head-on collision kills five, injures three in Khon Kaen

    Five football fans, travelling to watch the Thai Port Football Club, have been killed when their rented van crashed head-on with a water tanker in Khon Kaen this morning. Police said the incident occurred on the Chumphae Si Chomphu road in Moo 6 village in Tambon Wang Hin Lad. Three others people were injured in the collision. Four men died…

  • Thailand NewsTwo dead, two injured from collision in Suphan Buri
    ThaigerPublished: 12:10, 13 May 2019
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    Two dead, two injured from collision in Suphan Buri

    PHOTOS: Samerkun Suphanburi Rescue Foundation Two people have died while another two people have sustained serious injuries after two pickup trucks colliided in Suphan Buri, north west of Bangkok. Samerkun Suphanburi Rescue Foundation was notified of the accident on Danchang – Baan Rai Road in Suphan Buri at 5pm yesterday (Sunday). Rescue workers arrived to find two damaged pickup trucks,…

  • World News33 injured after Biman Air flight skids off Yangon Airport runway
    ThaigerPublished: 09:00, 09 May 2019
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    33 injured after Biman Air flight skids off Yangon Airport runway

    A Biman Air aircraft has skidded off the runway in Yangon, Myanmar and broken into pieces. The Biman Airlines flight was carrying a reported 33 people. Biman is the flag carrier of Bangladesh. At least five women and 12 men were being taken by ambulance to North Okkalapa Hospital at around 9pm last night with more serious injuries. The Bombardier…

  • Thailand NewsDriver killed and 10 Burmese workers injured in Tak crash
    ThaigerPublished: 15:07, 25 April 2019
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    Driver killed and 10 Burmese workers injured in Tak crash

    by Pipat Jongmeekwamsook A van driver has been killed and 10 migrant workers injured after the passenger van careered into a roadside ditch and hit a tree in Khamphaeng Phet in Thailand’s central west today. The 27 year old van driver was killed and 10 Burmese workers were injured when their vehicle crashed in Khamphaeng Phet’s Kosamphee Nakhon district early…

  • Northern Thailand NewsBus crashes off the road in Khon Kaen
    ThaigerPublished: 14:43, 19 April 2019
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    Bus crashes off the road in Khon Kaen

    PHOTOS: Pudtayan Banphai Rescue Foundation Many passengers have been injured following a bus crash in Khon Kaen, north-east Thailand this morning. The Pudtayan Banphai Rescue Foundation reports that the bus was traveling from Bangkok to Nongkhai in northeast Thailand. The bus, which was full of passengers, hit a tree and a light pole on the road before ending up on its…

  • Northern Thailand NewsPick-up driver slams into roadside steel shop, injures three
    ThaigerPublished: 09:14, 17 April 2019
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    Pick-up driver slams into roadside steel shop, injures three

    A drunk driver bounced off the side of a road in Ubon Ratchathani and then skidded side-ways into a roadside shop where young Songkran revellers were waiting quietly outside to greet passing vehicles. The crash ended up injuring three as the people waiting outside the shop scattered to get away from the black pick-up as it slammed into the shops.…

  • TravelBoeing investigation continues as attention turns to the engines
    ThaigerPublished: 08:33, 17 April 2019
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    Boeing investigation continues as attention turns to the engines

    Within the past six months, two Boeing 737 Max 8 have fallen out of the sky, both during the early climbing phase of the flight. In October, Lion Air Flight 610 crashed just off Jakarta, killing 189 people. And in March, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed in Bishoftu, Ethiopia, killing 157 people. Whilst the investigations continue into the two horrifying…

  • Thailand NewsEight Burmese migrants drown, two still missing in Kanchanaburi road crash
    ThaigerPublished: 17:16, 23 March 2019
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    Eight Burmese migrants drown, two still missing in Kanchanaburi road crash

    Eight Burmese migrants drowned along with two others that 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 in western Thailand today. Police say the accident happened at 12.10pm at the Sa Setthi Intersection in Tambon Ban Mai. About…

  • Bangkok NewsPorsche driver charged with reckless driving after death of two women
    ThaigerPublished: 16:26, 18 March 2019
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    Porsche driver charged with reckless driving after death of two women

    Bangkok Police have charged a Porsche driver who crashed into a motorcycle, killing two women, one of them also losing her unborn baby and being rushed to hospital, only to die soon after. The accident also damaged a roadside motorcycle-repair shop. The original report from The Thaiger HERE. Police announced that Somkiat Pakdeenok had been charged with reckless driving causing…

  • Bangkok NewsPorsche/motorcycle crash – one dead, another woman loses baby
    ThaigerPublished: 15:13, 16 March 2019
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    Porsche/motorcycle crash – one dead, another woman loses baby

    PHOTOS: Thai Rath | Sanook A Porsche Cayman S has been involved in a collision with two women on a motorcycle at 3am this morning (Saturday). The incident happened in Putthamonthon Sai 3 Soi 5. Thai Rath reports that the carnage happened as the vehicles collided outside a car repair yard. A friend of the women says that 24 year…

  • Hot NewsSome airlines ground the Boeing 737 MAX 800 aircraft “as a precaution”
    ThaigerPublished: 13:23, 11 March 2019
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    Some airlines ground the Boeing 737 MAX 800 aircraft “as a precaution”

    Airlines around the world that fly the new Boeing 737 MAX 800 model are starting to ground their fleets of the new next-gen aircraft. China’s aviation regulator have already ordered local airlines to stop flight with the 800 MAX model after an Ethiopian Airlines aircraft of the same model crashed yesterday morning. The aircraft is relatively new to the skies,…

  • World NewsFive Thais die after their car plunges into a Laos ravine
    ThaigerPublished: 14:42, 02 March 2019
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    Five Thais die after their car plunges into a Laos ravine

    Five Thai tourists were killed in a car accident just over the north-eastern border in Laos. The incident occurred when their car plunged down a deep ravine in Luang Prabang. The popular tourist region is approximately 300 kilometers north of the Lao capital Vientiane. Yesterday’s fatal crash was reported at 10pm last night by Lao authorities to the rescue unit…

  • South Thailand NewsSix marine officials killed as van slams into tree, Chumpon
    ThaigerPublished: 08:12, 25 February 2019
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    Six marine officials killed as van slams into tree, Chumpon

    PHOTO: A van is almost totally destroyed after slamming into a tree on Highway 41 in Sawi district of Chumphon yesterday (Sunday) – Facebook/Chumphon Rescue Volunteers at Khao Ka Rong Investigators are blaming a burst tyre on a passenger van that crashed, killing six Marine Department officials in Chumpon, heading back from Phuket towards Bangkok. The officials were killed and five others…

  • Thailand News19 injured after bus crashes into Sa Kaeo property
    ThaigerPublished: 16:10, 15 February 2019
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    19 injured after bus crashes into Sa Kaeo property

    PHOTOS: สวยพันธุ์ไม้ ท้ายบ้าน / อาสาสมัครมูลนิธิร่วมกตัญญูจังหวัดสระแก้ว จุดวัฒนานคร 19 people have been injured after a bus plunged into a local house today. FM 91 BKK reports that the accident happened at 8.10am this morning near Wattana Nakhon District Office in Sa Kaeo, on the Cambodian border, east of Bangkok. At the scene police found 19 people injured as a result of the…

  • Thailand NewsOne Malaysian dead and another injured after big-bike crash in Suphan Buri
    ThaigerPublished: 12:22, 14 February 2019
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    One Malaysian dead and another injured after big-bike crash in Suphan Buri

    A 50 year old Malaysian female tourist has died, and her friend injured, after their high-performance BMW motorcycle crashed in Suphan Buri’s Muang district yesterday afternoon. The two were part of a 20 motorbike convoy, riding from Malaysia with the goal of reaching Tak province in Thailand’s north-west. The fatal crash took place at 1.30pm on Malaiman Road in Tambon…

  • Phuket NewsBus crash on Patong Hill takes out 12 other vehicles, passengers in bus shaken
    Kritsada MueanhawongPublished: 12:13, 24 January 2019
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    Bus crash on Patong Hill takes out 12 other vehicles, passengers in bus shaken

    PHOTOS: Phuket Traffic Report VIDEO: Provided by Newshawk Phuket The tour bus accident on Patong yesterday afternoon, the third such incident in the same spot within 24 hours, has caused three injuries and with vehicles damaged as the bus careered down the hill, out of control. There were 10 tourists on the bus who were shaken by the incident but…

  • World NewsFOUND: Cockpit Voice Recorder from crashed Lion Air flight
    ThaigerPublished: 10:05, 15 January 2019
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    FOUND: Cockpit Voice Recorder from crashed Lion Air flight

    PHOTO: A Boeing 737 MAX, identical to the crashed jet “It’s broken into two pieces so hopefully it’s still useful.” Just as hopes of finding the second black box of the crashed Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX began to fade, investigators say they finally found the voice cockpit recorder (CVR) of the doomed flight. Data retrieved from the device could…

  • Pattaya NewsRound the world handicapped pilot crashes in Chon Buri
    ThaigerPublished: 16:59, 31 December 2018
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    Round the world handicapped pilot crashes in Chon Buri

    A video has captured the final moments of a light aircraft that crashed in Sri Racha, Chon Buri yesterday. Footage also shows the aftermath of the crash. The aircraft was piloted by Mike Lomberg, a South African who was flying through Thailand as part of a round the world flying adventure. The private light aircraft crash-landed yesterday, killing the pilot. The…

  • Thai LifeNew WHO world road death report – Thailand drops to number 8 but still high
    ThaigerPublished: 21:30, 12 December 2018
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    New WHO world road death report – Thailand drops to number 8 but still high

    Thailand’s roads remain some of the deadliest in the world. But the Kingdom has dropped from its previous number two position to number eight, behind a collection of backwater African states and other undeveloped countries. A new report by the World Health Organisation shows that the road safety situation in Thailand hasn’t improved. The shocking news is outlined in a…

  • World NewsBoeing withheld info on the 737 model involved in Indonesia crash – WSJ
    ThaigerPublished: 08:13, 14 November 2018
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    Boeing withheld info on the 737 model involved in Indonesia crash – WSJ

    There’s mounting pressure on Seattle-based plane maker Boeing today over the Lion Air crash in Indonesian two weeks ago. Pilots are claiming that the aircraft maker didn’t tell them about changes to the emergency system on its new 737 Max 8 jet, the model in the Lion Air 610 disaster that killed 189 people. According to a report in the…

  • World NewsA perfect storm hits Flight JT 610
    Tim NewtonPublished: 13:04, 13 November 2018
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    A perfect storm hits Flight JT 610

    If you get into a car that has had, and officially logged, malfunctions over the past four outings – all critical malfunctions to the correct operation of the car – would you start the key and head out into the traffic? Probably not. That appears to be what Captain Suneja, and his co-pilot on Flight JT610, did as the sun…