UPDATE
A woman hit-run victim became the fourth fatality in a spate of road deaths on Phuket on Monday morning. A truck hit her motorcycle as both vehicles turned left into the bypass road at Tesco-Lotus about 11am. The truck driver fled leaving Preeyanut Preedapon, 27, dead on the road. She worked at a gold shop in Central Festival. Police expect to arrest the driver of the truck quickly.
Original Report
TWO ROAD crashes in south Phuket claimed three lives this morning, two Thais and a British man.
The first crash, a collision between two motorcycles in Chao Fa Road East about 5.15am near Thanuthep Soi, killed a 27-year-old Thai man and the British man, aged in his 20s.
A second expat, a young man from Denmark, is in Phuket International Hospital in Phuket City..
The dead Briton was named by police as Adam William Nenagh.
Police were anxious to interview the injured man about the crash as soon as he is in a condition to talk, Colonel Boonlert On-klang, of Chalong police station, told Phuketwan.
The second crash, a collision between a car driven by Briton Morris Charles Allen, 63, and a motorcycle near the TOT offices in Chao Fa Road West, left the rider of the motorcycle dead. He was not wearing a helmet, and his name is not yet known.
His wife is now in intensive care at Vachira Hospital in Phuket City.
Police have been told that Morris Allen was on his way to the airport to pick up friends.
Colonel Boonlert said the motorcycle turned left into the main road in front of the car driven by Mr Allen.
The Public Health office has just released figures showing Phuket had 13 fatalities on the island's roads in January, with 1233 people left injured.
A single drowning occurred in January. As reported on Phuketwan the New Year's Day holiday saw the death of a 10-year-old boy at Nai Harn.
A young girl who was pulled from the water on Valentine's Day at the same beach remains in a coma at Vachira Hospital.
There were 157 road deaths on Phuket and 53 drownings in Phuket waters in 2009.
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I saw what appeared to be another death outside Tesco on the bypass at around 11am today. Rescue worker starting to wrap someone in a sheet.
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