Local news

Distracted driver

Train kills music-loving motorist

Narongrit Nuring, 35, was driving his pick-up truck through Muang district in Nakhon Ratchasima on July 5 with the stereo turned up full volume.

The music was so loud that, as he approached the Soi Mitthaphab railway crossing, he didn�t hear the oncoming train, which slammed into his vehicle.

According to Police spokesman Thawatchai Sroisasadi, the victim was identified from a bank book found inside the truck.

Stomach bug

Woman falls ill eating grasshoppers

Duang-orn Konkaew was rushed to a health clinic in Chachoengsao on July 2 five minutes after eating fried grasshoppers at home with her family.

Soon after her meal, her pulse rate slowed down, and she started having difficulty breathing.

Her worried husband, 40-year-old Sompote, took her to the Khao Hin Sorn Health Clinic.

Health official Charuayporn Punchareon said that the grasshoppers may have contained dangerous chemicals that are often sprayed on crops.

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Out of control

Bus crashes into shops

A tour bus crashed into two shops on July 4. The shops were badly damaged.

The accident happened on Nakhon Chaisri road in Bangkok.

The bus driver died on the way to hospital.

Guffaws galore

Jirat Wongsomboon, the winner of the laughing contest held by Ripley�s World of Entertainment in Pattaya, shows off her laugh on July 5 after winning 100,000 baht worth of prizes.

	guffaw (v): to laugh noisily galore (adv): in large quantities distracted (adj): unable to pay attention to something because you are thinking about something else slam (v): to hit or push something with a lot of force identify (v): to recognise somebody or something and be able to say who or what they are rush (v): to send somebody somewhere with great speed pulse (n): the regular beat of blood as it is pumped around the body