A 70-year-old man has died and two others were injured after a car collided with a wild elephant on Highway 323 in Kanchanaburi province, in what officials say is the first recorded incident of its kind on the route.
The crash occurred at around 9pm on Tuesday on the inbound stretch of Highway 323 towards Muang district in Wang Dong subdistrict. Police from the Lat Ya station were alerted by the local radio centre to reports of a serious collision between a sedan and a wild elephant, resulting in casualties.
