Aussie killed in Phuket taxi crash
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By Phuketwan Reporter
Monday, January 4, 2010
Phuketwan UPDATE
SIX people have died on Phuket roads with 24 hours of the New Year
danger period still to go. Five of them were Phuket locals. Officials
named the dead Australian as Roger Stephen Quinn, 55. Only three
deaths were recorded on the island in the last NY danger period.
Original Report
AN AUSTRALIAN tourist was killed when a taxi crashed on its way from
Patong to Phuket International Airport last night.
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The man's travelling companion, an Australian woman, was injured in
the collision with a minivan about 6.45pm and is in Vachira Hospital
in Phuket City.
Police told Phuketwan that the van crossed to the wrong side of the
road about 500 metres from the Caltex intersection in Kathu.
An officer was interviewing the Australian woman today to ascertain
precise details of the crash. A second person was also in hospital
with injuries.
It is believed the crash took place on a notorious curve in unusually
wet conditions.
Embassy officials were in the process of informing the man's
relatives.
The death of the Australian brings the toll for the critical seven-day
New Year holiday period to at least four.
In 2006-7 there were three deaths on Phuket, in 2007-8 seven deaths
and in 2008-9 three deaths.