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Phuket ice delivery driver flips truck

PHUKET: An ice delivery driver lost control of his truck earlier today (June 18) causing it overturn. It came to rest in a ditch against a lamp post.

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By Eakkapop Thongtub

Thursday 18 June 2015 01:00 PM


The ice truck came to rest in a ditch against a lamp post.

The ice truck came to rest in a ditch against a lamp post.

Thalang police were called to the scene of the accident, on the Heroines Monument to Pa Khlok Rd, at 7:10am and found the six-wheeler truck on its side, in a ditch and resting against lamp post. A large pile of ice which had fallen from the back of the vehicle covered the road nearby.

A number of residents were moving the ice from the road when police arrived to allow traffic to flow.

The driver of the truck, Kitti Samuckkit, 43, told police that he had picked up the ice load from Bangla and was heading to deliver it at Baan Bangrong in Pakhlok.

Police stated that Mr Kitti told them that he swerved to avoid a pick-up truck that pulled out suddenly from a side street and this caused him to lose control of his vehicle.

Mr Kitti and his truck were taken to Thalang Police Station where he is to be questioned and possibly charged with reckless driving.