SONGKHLA: The abbot of a Buddhist temple and a nun were killed and another woman injured when a pickup they were travelling in crashed into the rear of a lorry parked by the roadside in Singha Nakhon district early on Sunday, police said.
The accident occurred at about half past midnight on the Ranot – Songkhla road in tambon Khao Daeng.
The driver of the lorry told the police that he parked the vehicle on the roadside in front of a company in heavy rain, waiting to unload the cargoes, leaving the blinking lights on.
About 20 minutes afterward, the lorry was hit in the rear by a Toyota Mighty X pickup. The violent impact sent the pickup to end up blocking the road, with the front section badly damaged.
Rescuers used hydraulic jacks to break open the front of the pickup and found a monk, who was the driver, and a nun dead on the front seat and another woman injured in the back seat.
The monk was later identified as Phra Maha Paisal Pasanjitto, the abbot of Khlong Phaya Nai temple in tambon Ban Phru, Hat Yai district, and the nun as Sudarat Limsakul, 55. The injured woman was not yet identified.
Police were investigating to establish the cause of the accident, which might be the poor visibility.
Source: Bangkok Post
