Just after midnight on the 27th of December Sattahip Police Captain SaiJai was notified of a serious road accident on the Pattaya bound carriageway of Sukhumvit Highway at Km165 near Bang Saray. He attended the scene to find a Jeep type vehicle that had been wrecked after it had collided with the rear of a 10 wheeler milk truck
There was already one fatality and two people trapped in the wreckage. The deceased was a British national a Mr. Jack Nash aged 20 who had been a front seat passenger . He had been decapitated in the crash with the lower part of his body trapped under the dashboard and his head was found a few metres away.
Rescue workers were hard at work to extricate two other British nationals Mr. John James aged 45 who was the owner of the Jeep and had been driving at the time of the crash and man called Jordan aged 53 another passenger in the vehicle.
It took a while for rescue workers to extricate the two severely injured Brits and they were then transported quickly to Queen Sirikit Hospital in Sattahip for emergency treatment
The driver of the refrigerated milk truck Khun Aphichet aged 33 from Roi Et Province was uninjured in the crash and was waiting by his vehicle where he was interviewed by the police. He said that he had seen the Jeep approaching rapidly in his mirrors and at the last moment it seemed to lose control before crashing into the back of his truck.
One of the severely injured Brits had made a short statement prior to being transported to hospital. He said that they had been celebrating Christmas at a friend's house in Sattahip before driving home to Pattaya when the accident happened. Khun Aphichet was detained by the police for further questioning. Meanwhile the police are proceeding with their investigation into what happened and hope to talk to the surviving driver and passenger when they are in a fit state to be interviewed.
