At 09:30am on Tuesday, Chalong police were called to investigate an accident in which a tour bus had run over a motorcyclist in front of the Ginnaree Restaurant near the entrance to the Phuket shooting range on Patak Rd in Chalong.
Upon arrival, police and rescuers saw a tour bus with its front directed towards the Ginnaree Restaurant. Shockingly, a female was trapped under the back wheel of the bus. Her Honda Click motorcycle was lying damaged in the road nearby.
The victim, named later as Rapipat Kanputsha, 33, from Nakorn Ratsasrima was killed on impact due to having suffered a broken neck.
After recovering her body from under the bus rescue workers took the body to Vachira Phuket Hospital.
Witnesses said that the tour bus was turning right towards the Ginnaree Restaurant where the driver was scheduled to drop off tourists to buy food and souvenirs. The Honda click was right behind the bus and Ms Rapipat possibly didn̕t see that the bus was going to make a left turn. Her motorbike crashed into the left side of the bus with high impact, and Ms Rapipat bounced off the bus, slid under it and got run over by the back wheel.
By the time the police had arrived, the driver had fled the scene. However, he later turned himself in at Chalong police station.