Phuket crash kills foreigner, the 35th highway death on island this year

Plain of road deaths reached 35 this yr after a motorbike crash killed a foreigner early this morning. The accident occurred on Karon Beach Road on Phuket’s west coast at about 2.28am, in accordance with Ruamjai Rescue Foundation.
Rescuers and emergency medical service groups arrived on the scene to find a rubbish truck parked on the aspect of the street. The foreigner’s body and a damaged motorcycle have been lying close by, The Phuket News reported.
The sufferer is believed to have died immediately after rear-ending the rubbish truck. It isn’t known whether or not the person was wearing a helmet while using, or in the occasion that they have been fit to drive.
The basis did not reveal anything concerning the victim’s id, sharing neither their nationality, age, or gender.
The Thailand Road Safety Committee (ThaiRSC) stated that thus far this 12 months, 34 individuals (not together with the sufferer in Karon) had died in street accidents in Phuket. Meanwhile, 5,883 individuals have been hospitalised after road accidents on the island. Today and yesterday there have been no deaths and 78 folks injured in Phuket street accidents.
Last week, a tragic street death occurred in Phuket after a truck crushed a motorcycle rider‘s head. The incident occurred on the highway running alongside Rawai Beach within the Rawai sub-district in Phuket’s main city district.
The ThaiRSC reported in January that as many as 939,713 street accidents had been reported in Thailand final yr, up 4.7% from 2021. Road accidents killed 14,737 people, and injured 924,799 last yr, ThaiRSC stated. The committee reported that 536 deaths and 7,885 injuries have been among foreigners.
Meanwhile, the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department’s Road Safety Centre reported 2,440 street accidents in the course of the annual “7 harmful days” (December 29 to January 4) when individuals head to their hometowns to mark the model new 12 months..