News Forum - Drivers switch places in moving bus in western Thailand, 11 tourists injured

[Thaiger]

Ten foreign tourists and one Thai passenger were injured in a bus crash in Phetchaburi province in western Thailand at around 3am yesterday. Two drivers tried to switch seats while the vehicle was still moving, causing the bus to crash into a power pole, they admitted to the police. The white tour bus, travelling from Surat Thani to Bangkok, was carrying 19 passengers when the accident happened on the Phetchakasem Road in Khao Yoi district. A rescue team and officers from Phetchaburi Police Station and Khao Yoi Police Station rushed to the scene to help victims who were stuck inside the […]

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[Ramanathan.P]

They might be acrobats before becoming drivers...

[Soidog]

Charge both and give them a prison sentence of at least a year and ban them from doing such work ever again. 

[Ramanathan.P]

2 hours ago, Soidog said:

Charge both and give them a prison sentence of at least a year and ban them from doing such work ever again. 

Not in Thailand. They will start doing again after one year. Better ban them for life and cancel their commercial driving license  forever. Be it a lesson to others.