Eight people were killed and more than 20 injured Sunday when a bus carrying workers back from a holiday weekend crashed in western Thailand.
The bus crashed into the side of a road and overturned as it was rounding a curve while descending a hill in Kanchanaburi province, said police Lt. Col. Yutthasak Tonpho. The driver was among the dead.
Thai media reported that the crash site is known to locals as "the curve of a hundred corpses" because of previous accidents there.
The passengers were on a holiday outing from a factory on the outskirts of Bangkok.
Thailand has the second-highest traffic fatality rate in the world, according to a 2013 survey done for the World Health Organization. Other surveys put Thailand in the top four.
In a separate, bizarre accident, a Thai man and two Chinese tourists survived when the car they were driving hit a cow that had fallen off the back of a truck, the Bangkok Post newspaper reported on its website.
It said the crash in the central province of Chai Nat killed the cow, whose body was found about 50 metres (yards) away from the car, which overturned from the impact. Police were seeking the driver of the truck, which left the scene.
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