Emergency services were alerted to the scene near the Srisoonthorn Municipality offices at approximately 3:15 a.m. on September 6. Responding officers and rescue teams from the Kusoldharm Foundation and Thalang Hospital arrived to find the pickup truck extensively damaged, having skidded off the road and collided with the central reservation. The impact was so intense that the truck’s tray was torn off after hitting a traffic sign and a palm tree.
Inside the wreckage, three teenagers were found. Police identified them as 19-year-old Nattawut Chahajak, the driver, 18-year-old Thanawat Songsri, and a 17-year-old whose name has not been released. All three were transported to Thalang Hospital, where doctors sadly confirmed that Thanawat and the 17-year-old had died from their injuries. Nattawut remains hospitalized in serious condition.
An investigator suspects that excessive speed was a factor in the accident, noting that the truck’s speedometer was frozen at 150 kilometers per hour.
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