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Cut corners take toll in bus crashes
News, Editorial, Published on 25/03/2018
» The road accident involving a double-decker bus that killed 18 holiday-makers and injured 30 more this week indicates that serious safety flaws remain in the nation's public transport.
Three-year-old boy, man killed in Krabi bus-pickup crash
Online Reporters, Published on 24/03/2018
» KRABI: Two people, including a three-year-old boy, were killed and six others injured in a crash involving a tour bus and a pickup truck in Ao Luk district late Friday night.
Driver killed, 8 passengers hurt in Loei bus crash
Online Reporters, Published on 20/02/2018
» LOEI: The driver was killed and eight passengers hurt when an inter-provincial bus hit a barrier at the side of a bridge, veered off the road and overturned in Phu Kradung district on Tuesday morning.
19 die in HK bus crash
Published on 10/02/2018
» HONG KONG: At least 19 people were killed and dozens injured when a double-decker bus toppled over in Hong Kong Saturday evening, police said.
One killed, 50 hurt in Phichit bus crash
Published on 30/12/2017
» PHICHIT: A teenager was killed and about 50 others injured, 16 seriously, when a packed Bangkok-Nan passenger bus veered off a highway and plunged into a tree in Bung Na Rang district early on Saturday.
Three killed in school bus crash
Gary Boyle, Published on 16/11/2017
» Three people were killed, including a schoolgirl, and 55 others hurt when a bus carrying students and teachers on a study tour collided with a pickup truck on Wednesday evening.
Three killed when school study tour bus, pickup collide
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 16/11/2017
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA: Three people were killed, including a schoolgirl, and 55 others hurt when a bus carrying students and teachers on a study tour collided with a pickup truck on Wednesday evening.
One killed, 30 hurt in bus-truck crash
Sunthorn Pongpao, Published on 06/04/2017
» AYUTTHAYA - A driver was killed and 30 passengers hurt, three seriously, when a Bangkok-bound interprovincial bus rear-ended a trailer truck in Wang Noi district in this central province early Thursday morning.
Bus plan forces van owners to reroute future
News, Published on 12/03/2017
» Standing at the van ticket booth at Mor Chit 2 bus terminal waiting for his van's 14 seats to be filled up, Anun Phutsong is still serving passengers from Bangkok to Ayutthaya despite the government's ambitious plan to replace all inter-provincial vans with minibuses by this year's end.
Faulty culture of travel firms
News, Editorial, Published on 08/03/2017
» The first specific details of the programme to replace vans with micro buses for inter-city and inter-provincial passengers are now known. The Central Land Transport Control Board, under the supervision of Deputy Minister of Transport Pichit Akarathit, aims to have 55 buses on the roads by July 1. The pilot project will provide useful information. However, this optimistic report leaves out the single most important point.