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Drug delivery driver crashes during police chase

The damaged pickup after it crashed while being pursued by police in Kosum Phisai district, Maha Sarakham province, on Tuesday. The woman driver was charged with possession of 600,000 meth pills. (Photo: Chakrapan Natanri)

A driver was arrested and 600,000 methamphetamine pills seized after her pickup crashed into a house while she was being chased by police on Tuesday.

Highway police signalled a Toyota Rivo pickup without licence plates to stop on a road in Khon Kaen province, police said.

Instead of stopping, the pickup sped away in the direction of Maha Sarakham province. Police set off in pursuit.

In Maha Sarakham's Kosum Phisai district, the pickup ran off the road and hit a tree and then a house. The vehicle was badly damaged and the woman driver injured and taken to hospital.

She was later identified only as Natkamol, 33, from Chaiyaphum province.

Police searched the crashed vehicle and found a bag containing 600,000 meth pills.

According to police, Ms Natkamol admitted she was was delivering 1.4 million meth pills for a dealer in Mukdahan province. She had made deliveries to clients along the way, in Sakon Nakhon and Kalasin provinces.

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