Wirut Chuansaman, head lifeguard at Bang Tao Beach, found the car in the surf after he arrived to start his patrols at about 8:30am today.
“When I arrived to start work, I saw a white car stuck on the beach about 700 meters from the lifeguard station,” he told The Phuket News.
“The driver was already out of the car. I had a short talk with her. She was not hurt. I didn’t get her name, but the car had Chiang Mai license plates,” he said.
The woman explained that late last night she drove onto the new road near the canal used by longtail boats, but she didn’t see the end of the road and accidentally ended up driving onto the beach,” Mr Wirut explained.
“The car was stuck there. She wasn’t hurt and could get out of the car as the tide had not come in yet at that time,” he said.
Yet the tide was rising, and the woman called her insurance provider, which quickly organised assistance to arrive and pull the car out of the surf shortly after 9am today.
Col Somchai Sanprasert, Chief of the Cheng Talay Police, told The Phuket News that he was informed of the accident at about midnight last night.
“The duty officer said he had passed police contact information to the owner of car in order to arrange to have the car safely recovered, but we didn’t get a call back from her,” he said.