At 11.20am today (June 24) Khao Yai Rescue Center of Kathu Municipality was notified by Narenthorn Center, Vachira Phuket Hospital that a car hit a street sweeper on Wichit Songkram Rd in Kathu district, leaving the victim seriously injured.
Kusoldharm rescue workers and an ambulance from Phuket International Hospital arrived at the scene right in front of the entrance to Prince of Songkla University. They found a white Toyota Altis in a yard slightly off the road. Under the car there was a young woman, named by Kathu Municipality as 26-year-old Ms Jay Myanmar, a Myanmar native.
Resque workers quickly retrieved her from under the car, adminisered CPR and when she became more stable took Ms Jay Myanmar to Phuket Vachira Hospital for further medical treatment.
According to eyewitnesses, the woman was resting on the footpath when the Toyota crashed into her at speed, dragging the woman along the footpath before coming to a stop in the yard.
Police are investigating the details of the incident.