Pickup Truck Pileup Impales Passenger on Metal Sheet
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CCTV footage reveals a closed-cab pickup truck rear-ending an open-bed pickup, which then crashed into a sedan, leaving three vehicles damaged. A 46-year-old man named Prathip, seated in the back of the open-bed truck, suffered a severe injury when a sharp metal corner from sheet metal loaded inside the vehicle pierced his right testicle, nearly severing it. The accident occurred at 8:00 PM on October 31 on Suwinthawong Road near the salt factory in Bang Nam Priao district, Chachoengsao.
Police Lieutenant Somjet Daewichit, investigator at Bang Nam Priao Police Station, reported that three vehicles were involved: a Toyota Vigo closed-cab pickup (Bangkok plates), a Toyota Revo open-bed pickup (Bangkok plates) driven by 50-year-old Pramot, and a Toyota Vios sedan (Bangkok plates) driven by 28-year-old Suthinant. Pramot stated he was slowing down behind the sedan when the closed-cab pickup slammed into his vehicle from behind. His relative Prathip was sitting in the truck bed and was impaled by the metal cargo.
Suthinant said he was slowing to turn left into the factory to pick up his girlfriend when he was hit from behind. Police are reviewing CCTV footage and interviewing all three drivers to determine the cause and pursue legal action. The footage shows the sedan slowing to turn left, the open-bed pickup braking behind it, and the closed-cab pickup crashing into them at high speed. The impact threw Prathip against the metal sheets, causing the gruesome injury. Initially unable to free him because his scrotum remained impaled on the metal, bystanders and rescuers eventually managed to extricate him and rushed him to Buddhachinaraj Hospital.
