Four people were killed and 16 others injured when a trailer truck crashed into six other vehicles in eastern Thailand's Prachin Buri province in the wee hours of Sunday.
The accident occurred in Nadi district at 2 a.m. local time when the 18-wheeler trailer truck heading downhill rammed into three vans, a car, a pick-up truck and a motorcycle which were running in an opposite direction, Tipol Wadsungnoen, a duty police officer in the district, was quoted by Bangkok Post as saying.
The driver of the trailer truck, which was then fully loaded with cassava roots, was believed to have lost control over the vehicle after the brake failed, according to preliminary investigation.
All the injured have been sent to nearby hospitals while two of the killed are yet to be identified.