Nongprue Police, Fire Engines and a Unit of The Sawang Boriboon Rescue Foundation were dispatched to provide assistance at a serious road accident in East Pattaya where a car had rammed into the back of a truck and burst into flames.
Rescuers arrived on the scene on Route 36 near The Bira International Racing Circuit to find a white Toyota Yaris with Rayong plates totally engulfed in flames and rammed under the rear of a 10 Wheeler lorry. Rescuers concentrated on containing an LPG fire from a ruptured gas tank on the Toyota. It was not until the fire had been extinguished that they could get to the charred remains of the driver.
There was no ID for the driver and the description tall and thin leads police to think that he may have been a foreigner.
The driver of the truck Khun Panom aged 55 who was transporting steel from Bang Yai in Nonthaburi to Rayong Province said that he was driving his vehicle normally when he felt a thud and heard what he thought was a bomb going off at the rear of his vehicle. He had tried to get the driver out but was beaten back by the flames.
The body of the deceased driver was transported to Banglamung Hospital for a full post mortem to be carried out. Meanwhile from the details of the wrecked Toyota the police are trying to shed some light on his identity.
