THAI FIREBALL TRAGEDY 25 people dead after minibus crossed central reservation and slammed into pick-up truck near Bangkok tourist hotspot

A DEVASTATING fire after a van and pickup truck collided killed 25 people in Thailand earlier today.

 

The vehicles collided and caught alight on a highway in eastern Thailand, authorities said.

 

Local media reports the transit van lost control and crossed the grass media, colliding with the pickup truck heading in the opposite direction, according to Thai Road Accident Data for Road Safety Culture, which compiles electronic insurance reports.

 

Twenty-five people were killed – including both drivers – and two survived the crash, said police Col. Dusadee Kunchorn Na Ayutthaya, superintendent of the Ban Bung district police station in Chonburi province.

 

He said: “An accident like this shouldn’t happen but it did.”

 

Police were not yet able to interview the survivors but were investigating to determine what caused the crash.

 

Thailand has one of the highest traffic fatality rates in the world.

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