BURI RAM: The driver of an 18-wheel truck was killed after the vehicle, loaded with about 30 tonnes of molasses, overturned in Khaen Dong district on Sunday morning, police said.
Pol Lt Col Prayoon Ritta, a Khaen Dong police investigator, said the truck skidded off the Khu Muang-Khaen Dong road near Ban Yang Noi in tambon Sa Bua and overturned.
The truck, loaded with about 30 tonnes of malasses, was on the way from Nong Bua Lamphu province to a liquor factory in Satuk district in Buri Ram. The accident took place about 10 kilometres from the factory.
Thong-in Prasopsri, the truck driver, was killed. Rescuers from the Buri Ram-based Sawanchanya Thammasatharn Foundation took about 30 minutes to extract his body from the badly-damaged vehicle.
The molasses flowed out of the vehicle into nearby ricefields.
Police were investigating the cause of the accident.
