Normally, I wouldn’t write about accidents and publish
gruesome pictures of them. But this accident ties in directly with the previous
post on the subject.
This accident happened in Sihanoukville yesterday. I drove
by just after it had happened. DAP News
reports it like this:
The truck came along National road number 4 and was speeding
across the intersection at the two Sokha and Tela gas stations. A little
further on the road is full of potholes
and motorbikes and cars need to slow down to a crawl. The truck was oblivious
to that and hit a motorcycle at high speed, subsequently panicked, veering left
and right, running over pedestrians. An oncoming passenger tried to avoid the
truck and in the process crossed the road and drove into a low-lying field. The
truck meanwhile hit three or four more motorbikes and then crashed into a power
line mast. The result: 9 people dead and an unknown number sustained serious
injuries. The driver was unharmed and taken into custody.
Cause of accident: a speeding drunk driver.
I say it again, these people don’t know how to handle a
truck. Driving along smaller country roads at night is so dangerous I can only
advise people against it. When it rains this is almost like a suicide mission.
The roads have no markings, the drivers don’t know the width of their trucks,
and the chance that they sideswipe you is very high. One can only hope that
there is no drunk driver behind the wheel.
Pictures lifted from DAP – News website.
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