Two people were killed and four others injured when a speeding car ploughed into roadside shops in Thailand.
The white Honda HR-V was travelling along Soi Bun Siri 14 near Bangkok when the female driver allegedly lost control.
CCTV footage shows the white car speeding past before crashing into oncoming vehicles at around 6:30 am local time today.
Vendors screamed as the SUV veered toward the roadside, smashing through food stalls, tables and a congee cart.
It then crashed into a tree and a wall outside a nearby house.
Emergency responders arrived at the scene, where they found two people dead and four others injured, including three who were critically wounded.
The injured survivors were rushed to Paolo Hospital Samut Prakan for treatment.
Motorcycle taxi driver Narongsak Saitawee, who witnessed the incident, said the car had been travelling at high speed and swerving from side to side before ploughing into the shops.
He said: 'The car was going very fast. The driver did not appear to be drunk, but the vehicle was swerving from side to side.
'It first hit the left side before veering across to the right and crashing through the tables. It eventually came to a stop here.
'I immediately ran over and opened the car door. The driver was a woman and she was alone in the vehicle.
'She seemed shaken and asked me whether anyone had been injured or killed. I told her there were casualties and several people had been hurt.'
A shopkeeper who was among those injured said she had no time to react before the car smashed into the roadside stall.
She said: 'I didn't even see it coming. The next thing I knew, I had been hit.
'I briefly lost consciousness and thought I wasn't going to survive. The car was travelling so fast that nobody had time to react.
‘At first, I lost consciousness and thought I would not survive.
‘The vehicle was travelling extremely fast, giving me no time to react.
‘I was selling goods as usual at the time, and there were customers in front of the shop.
‘No one was aware of what was about to happen. We were chatting normally.
‘Two of my customers were hit; one was injured, and the other was killed.
‘I was utterly shocked, as we had just been chatting and laughing together normally before it happened.'
Police Colonel Chakkrit Srirojanakul, superintendent of Samut Prakan Police Station, said the female driver has been taken into custody for questioning.
He said: ‘Officers inspected the scene, took photographs and collected evidence.
‘The female driver was taken into custody and brought to the station for questioning to establish the cause of the accident. She will also undergo a blood alcohol test before further legal proceedings.'
Thailand has one of the world's worst road safety records. Ministers have set the goal of reducing fatalities from 32.7 deaths per 100,000 people to 12 per 100,000 people by the year 2027.
However, a lack of road safety education in schools along with notoriously easy driving tests, police failures to enforce road laws, and chronic under-investment in infrastructure, all appear to hamper the efforts.
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