Deadly Bangkok Train Crash Claims Eight Lives, Driver Tested Positive for Drugs
A goods train collided with a bus at a Bangkok level crossing, killing eight people. The train driver, who later tested positive for drugs, also lacked a valid operator's license.
Bangkok residents were digesting yet another avoidable tragedy on Monday after eight people were killed when a goods train ploughed into a city bus at a busy level crossing on Saturday afternoon. The train driver, who later tested positive for drugs, had also not received a valid operator’s licence from the Department of Rail Transport. A fireball erupted as the train struck the bus at the Asok-Dindaeng intersection, in a notoriously congested part of Thailand’s capital, igniting the vehicle’s.....