Runaway factory shuttle bus with brake failure crashes into three vehicles

Factory shuttle van's brakes fail, causing a chain collision involving 3 vehicles

October 24

A chain collision involving three vehicles occurred at the Yangon-Mandalay expressway toll gate in Ussa New Town Ward (9), Ussa New Town area, Bago Township, on the route from Bago to Yangon, it is reported.

At around 6 am on October 23, a factory worker shuttle van traveling from Bago toward Inntakaw suffered brake failure and crashed successively into vehicles stopped to pay the toll at the gate, injuring three people, it is reported.

"It crashed into the back of a Hinthagone-Bago University passenger SUZUKI CARRY PICKUP after its brakes failed. That struck vehicle then hit the KM factory shuttle van in front of it. Three people in the PICKUP were injured; the other vehicles were only damaged," a passenger vehicle driver said.

As a result of the collision, PICKUP driver Ko Han Soe, and Ma Aye Aye Maw and Daw Nyo Nyo Tun, who were aboard the vehicle, sustained swelling, fractures and abrasions to their legs and arms, and local charitable organizations transported them to Bago General People's Hospital, it is reported.

Currently, Ko Zaw Tun, the driver of the factory worker shuttle van whose brakes failed and which caused the crash, has been detained by Bago No. (3) Myoma Police Station, it is reported.

MyoTaw News Channel