Family mourns ‘Fried banana vendor’ Had just returned to selling for only 3 days before being fatally struck by a 10-wheel closed truck that lost control and crashed violently into him.
At 05:50 on 22 Jan 2026 GMT+7, Police Lieutenant Colonel Rewat Abdin, investigator at Bang Nam Priao Police Station, received a report of a 10-wheel closed truck crashing into the rear of a pickup truck parked by the roadside, resulting in one fatality. The incident occurred in front of a company just before Decho Bridge on the Chachoengsao-Suwinthawong Road at kilometer marker 53+800, Moo 20, Sala Daeng Subdistrict, Bang Nam Priao District, Chachoengsao Province. Police and rescue teams promptly arrived at the scene.
At the scene, authorities found one male victim identified as Mr. Wasandon Kwanru, 53, a vendor selling fried banana, fried fish cakes, and fried taro in front of the company. Before the crash, he was sitting frying banana, fish cakes, and taro on the back of a gray pickup truck, license plate LWA 5140 Bangkok. Suddenly, a white 10-wheel closed truck, license plate 64-437 Bangkok, driven by Mr. Bancha Butdee, 43, lost control and crashed forcefully into the pickup’s rear, causing the vehicle to be thrown off the road and into a roadside ditch.
The frying pans with hot oil were scattered in all directions, and equipment was strewn across the ground. The pickup truck was severely damaged and was crushed in the ditch by the truck. Meanwhile, the victim’s body was thrown from the vehicle and died at the roadside.
Mrs. Marisa Phaopu, 56, the victim’s wife, said her husband and she had been selling fried banana, fried fish cakes, and fried taro in front of that company for many years. Around 04:30, her husband would leave home to prepare the fried snacks to sell to company employees before and after their shifts until about 9 a.m., then pack up to go home. She usually followed on a motorcycle to help after dropping their daughter, who just started grade 7, off at school.
She said she didn’t know how to move forward after this loss, as their daughter is still in grade 7 and her husband was the family’s main earner. She accepted that this might be fate because they had stopped selling since New Year due to fewer customers while most employees returned to their hometowns. They had only resumed selling for three days before this tragic event occurred.