A young conscript soldier drove a pickup truck and crashed into a roadside noodle shop full of customers, killing 1 person and injuring 9 others. Damage to two noodle shops on Udon Dusit Road, inbound to Udon Thani city, after being hit hard by a pickup truck. The incident occurred at 9:00 p.m. last night (October 24). Udon Thani police and rescue workers rushed to help the victims. They found one deceased person in front of a pickup truck. His name was Mr. Chatchai, 51 years old. His sister said that her brother worked as a manager of a car tent in Udon Thani. After work, he came to eat noodles with his family of 3, father, mother, and son, including his daughter. While she was driving past to go home, she saw her brother's car and knew that he was sitting there eating noodles. She intended to turn the car around to find her brother and pick up her daughter to go home together. However, she saw the pickup truck crash into the shop right before her eyes. While there were 9 more injured people, the officer s took them to Udon Thani Hospital, including the noodle shop owner, the noodle shop owner's son, the noodle shop owner's granddaughter, the deceased's son, and a noodle shop customer. Of these, 3 people were in serious condition. Witnesses said that the black four-door pickup truck was driving from the Udon Thani-Nong Khai bypass intersection heading into the city at high speed before veering onto the sidewalk and crashing into the first noodle shop, which was in the gap between an electric pole and the fence of the Udon Thani Cooperative Office. It then hit the owner of the noodle shop and his children who were helping sell things, sweeping away the noodle cart, the cup table, the ice bucket, and the customer service table that was attached to the wall in an entire row before crashing into a large tree on the sidewalk. The force of the crash also damaged another beef noodle shop. The pickup truck driver was identified as Mr. Kiatsak, aged 21. He was driving with his younger sister, aged about 10. He only said that he worked at a gas station. He started work at 5 pm and finished work at 3 am. He had been working like this for 2 weeks. He was about to pick up his mother to take her to report for military conscription. Police measured the alcohol level of Mr. Kiatsak, the driver of the pickup truck, and found that his blood alcohol level was 29 milligrams percent. However, when searching the car, they found a shoulder bag with a modified lighter (floating flame) and drug paraphernalia, which had methamphetamine stains on the foil. A urine test found methamphetamine, so he was charged with reckless driving causing death and serious injury to others and illegal use of Category 1 narcotics (methamphetamine). Pol. Col. Pattanawong Chanphon, Superintendent of Udon Thani City Police Station, revealed that from questioning the driver, it was found that he drove from his house to pick up his mother in Udon Thani city, but it was found that he had used methamphetamine, which is clear evidence. As for the cause of the a ccident, it must be investigated in detail again. Initially, he was taken to his house to be checked for additional illegal items. Source: Thai News Agency