Eight people in a passenger car were crushed to death and two others were injured late Thursday night, when the vehicle in which they were travelling was rear-ended by an articulated lorry, pushing it into a stationary lorry.
Emergency workers reported that the passenger car was completely destroyed, as it became crushed between the two lorries on the out-bound side of a motorway in Chon Buri province.
One of the two survivors from the car, a 12-year-old girl, told the police that there were ten of them in the vehicle, on their way to visit her parents in Rayong province.
She said her uncle, the driver, stopped the car behind a lorry, parked on the hard shoulder of the motorway. She and a relative, an 18-year-old woman, got out to fetch a diaper from the boot for a baby inside the car.
Suddenly, another lorry, which was pulling onto the hard shoulder, crashed into their car from behind. The driver of the first lorry said he had stopped the vehicle to have a quick meal with his wife.
Police said the victims included two female toddlers, a 10-year-old boy, four women, and a man. A rescue worker was reportedly moved to tears upon witnessing the scene.
