{"id":596040,"date":"2023-08-05T11:25:54","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T05:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=596040"},"modified":"2023-08-05T12:32:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T07:02:29","slug":"thailand-train-collision-with-pickup-truck-kills-8-people-and-injures-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/thailand-train-collision-with-pickup-truck-kills-8-people-and-injures-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand train collision with pickup truck kills 8 people and injures 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight people were killed when a freight train struck a pickup truck crossing the tracks in an eastern province of Thailand early Friday morning, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p>The accident at 2:20 am also injured four people in the Muang district of Chachoengsao province, according to the State Railway of Thailand. <\/p>\n<p>The 54-year-old driver, Wichai Yulek, told authorities he saw the approaching train and heard a warning horn. He slowed, but passengers in the vehicle urged him to keep going. When he realized the truck was headed for a collision, he could not stop in time, the railway agency said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight people were killed when a freight train struck a pickup truck crossing the tracks in an eastern province of Thailand early Friday morning, authorities said. The accident at 2:20 am also injured four people in the Muang district of Chachoengsao province, according to the State Railway of Thailand. The 54-year-old driver, Wichai Yulek, told authorities he saw the approaching train and heard a warning horn. He slowed, but passengers in the vehicle urged him to keep going. When he realized the truck was headed for a collision, he could not stop in time, the railway agency said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}