PHICHIT: Twenty-eight people, mostly passengers, were hurt when a Bangkok-Phitsanulok interprovincial bus rear-ended a truck loaded with steel rods and pipes in Wachira Banrami district early Saturday.
The crash occurred at kilometre marker 87 on the Nakhon Sawan-Phitsanulok Road (Asia Road 117) in Ban Krodngam village at around 3.30am, said Pol Lt Col Narong Panma, a duty officer at the Waricha Banrami police station.
Police said the Phitsanulok-bound bus rammed into the back of the 10-wheel truck. The force of the crash caused the two vehicles to skid off the road and plunge into the roadside ditch where they struck a large tree. Twenty-eight people, including 25 passengers, the drivers of the two vehicles and a bus helper were hurt, local media reported.
A police investigation found that the bus had left Bangkok at around 11pm. Officers were questioning the drivers of both vehicles to find out more about the cause.
