PHUKET: This truck carting water came a cropper today on Phuket's notorious Patong Hill.
Perhaps it was a sudden burst of wind combined with the tilted camber of the road on that corner. Perhaps the billboards were being admired.
Usually trucks going slowly up the hill from the Phuket City side towards Patong on the other side are forced to travel slowly. It's rare to see one topple, as this truck and its load of water did about 10.45am.
The three men who were in the cabin at the time escaped injury, the Phuketwan reader who took these photographs reported.
There was no official notification to police of the crash, so it will not even be reported among statistics as officials consider the virtues of spending six billion baht on a tunnel to replace the hazardous hill road.
Perhaps it was a sudden burst of wind combined with the tilted camber of the road on that corner. Perhaps the billboards were being admired.
Usually trucks going slowly up the hill from the Phuket City side towards Patong on the other side are forced to travel slowly. It's rare to see one topple, as this truck and its load of water did about 10.45am.
The three men who were in the cabin at the time escaped injury, the Phuketwan reader who took these photographs reported.
There was no official notification to police of the crash, so it will not even be reported among statistics as officials consider the virtues of spending six billion baht on a tunnel to replace the hazardous hill road.
good to see no other motorbike or vehicle was crushed because of overloading a truck of its capacity to save a few baht.
Posted by john s on December 12, 2011 16:26