Bangkok: The bus lost control and got caught in the cable holding the high-voltage cable. Bus No. 167, traveling between Keha Phra Ram 2 and Lumphini Park, encountered oil stains at the Mahaisawan intersection, causing it to skid and snag a cable holding high-voltage power lines. Fortunately, no one was injured.
According to Thai News Agency, at 11:45 p.m. on February 10, officers from Bukkhalo Police Station received a report of a bus hanging from a high-voltage electric pole with adhesive cables. The incident occurred on Somdet Phra Chao Taksin Road, Mahaisawan Intersection, Bukkhalo Subdistrict, Thonburi District, Bangkok. The orange air-conditioned bus No. 167, traveling between Keha Phra Ram 2 and Lumphini Park, was found with all four wheels lifted off the ground. The left side mirror was caught on the high-voltage electric pole with adhesive cables, unable to move. It was stuck and dangling. Fortunately, no one was injured or killed.
From asking Ms. Aphinya, 34 years old, the driver of the bus, she said that she drove down from the Krungthep Bridge and was going to turn a curve to get onto Chom Thong Road. She felt the wheels shaking. When they went up onto the cable, she got out to look and found that they were floating on oil and water. At the time of the incident, there were 3 passengers. No one was injured. It is expected that the cause was slipping on oil and water.
Initial assumptions suggest that it was at the beginning of a curve in the road that the driver lost control because there were water and oil stains on the road surface, causing him to lose control. The driver tried to keep the car close to the left side of the road, not knowing that the mirror was overlapping the cable, and at that moment the car was sending power up, causing it to climb up and get stuck on the cable.