Bus and freight train collide at Thai railroad crossing 18 passengers on the bus died October 11, 18:45
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On the morning of the 11th in Thailand, a bus and a freight train collided at a railroad crossing, killing 18 passengers and crew on the bus.
Local police are investigating the cause of the accident.
In Chachoengsao Province in eastern Thailand, a bus and a freight train collided at a railroad crossing after 8 am on the 11th (after 10 am Japan time), and the bus was severely damaged.
According to local police, 18 people including bus passengers and drivers were killed in the accident, and 35 passengers were injured and taken to the hospital for medical treatment.
About 60 people were on the bus, and they were heading from the neighboring prefecture to a temple near the site to participate in Buddhist events.
The site of the accident was a rural area with few private houses, there was no barrier at the railroad crossing, and the freight train driver said that he noticed the bus about 300 meters before the site and braked it, but it was not in time. about it.
The local police are investigating the detailed situation, considering that the confirmation when the bus driver enters the railroad crossing may have been insufficient due to the situation at the scene.
According to the local Japanese embassy, there is no information that Japanese people have been involved in this accident so far.
At the moment of the collision, the bus turns at once and falls sideways
The moment the bus and freight train collided was captured by a security camera installed near the railroad crossing at the site.
A freight train coming from the right collided with a bus that slowly entered the railroad crossing, and the bus fell sideways immediately after turning 90 degrees at a stretch.
In addition, it can be seen that the freight train that applied the brakes continued to run beside the bus that had fallen sideways for a while, suggesting that it collided before the speed slowed down too much.