A pickup truck driver who tried to outrun a train nearly paid for his mistake the lives of four people.
Prasert Rittiboon, 54, told Banglamung police he was in a rush to meet a friend, and ignored the barrier in front of the Nong Pung Puay Railway.
As he pulled out to cross the cracks, a Bangkok-Plutaluang locomotive smashed the engine of his four-door Mitsubishi Triton.
He and three passengers suffered only minor injuries from the train, which took a half-kilometer to stop following the collision.
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