Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) At least 25 people -- including two children -- died Monday after a van crashed into a pickup truck and burst into flames in Thailand, police told CNN.

The crash happened in Ban Bueng District, Chonburi Province, about 114 kilometers (71 miles) southeast of Bangkok, when the van driver lost control and veered across the highway into oncoming traffic, said Lt. Col. Viroj Chiemcharas, deputy chief to the Ban Bueng Provincial Police Station.

In the van, 14 people were killed and one person survived, he said.

In the pickup truck, nine adults and two children were killed and one person survived.

The two survivors are being treated at local hospitals.

Read More</s>A minivan and a pick-up truck both packed with passengers have collided in eastern Thailand, killing 25 people.

Police said the minivan driver lost control after making a U-turn and ploughed into oncoming traffic in the eastern province of Chonburi on Monday. Both vehicles burst into flames.

"The victims were killed by fire or the impact," police Lieutenant-Colonel Wiroj Jamjamras at Ban Bueng provincial police station told AFP news agency, adding two toddlers were among the dead.

Wiroj said 15 people were inside the minivan while 12 passengers were packed into the pick-up truck - all of them Thai nationals.

Two passengers were injured, but are expected to survive, he said. Wiroj ruled out drink-driving as the cause of the accident.

Footage broadcast on Channel 3 showed firefighters tackling the burning, twisted wreckage of the two vehicles.

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Despite relatively good infrastructure, Thailand has the world's second most dangerous roads in terms of per capita deaths, according to data collected by the World Health Organization in a 2015 report.

Fatalities tend to rise in the New Year week and during Songkran, a religious festival in April, when millions of low-paid workers return to the countryside from their city jobs to see family.

Both weeks are dubbed the "Seven Deadly Days" in Thai media, with the government keeping a daily death tally during those two periods to try to encourage better road safety.

As of Sunday - the fourth day of the country's New Year holiday week - 280 people had died on Thailand's roads, a 10 percent increase from last year.

About 43 percent of the recorded road accidents involved drink-driving and 82 percent involved motorcycles.</s>Bangkok (VNA) – A serious traffic accident happened on January 2 in Thailand’s eastern province of Chonburi, claiming the lives of 25 and injuring two.

 

 All dead victims were on a small passenger coach which collided head-on with a semi-truck running in the opposite direction.

 

 Police said the coach driver lost control of the vehicle, letting the coach to slide into the opposite lane. After the collision, both vehicles burst into flame.

 

 According to the 2015 report of the World Health Organisation (WHO), despite Thailand’s relatively good infrastructure, the country still has the second largest number of dangerous roads in the world in terms of accidents.

 

 The fatalities of traffic accidents in the country often surge during the end of the year when the traffic volume increases.

 

 During the four-day New Year 2017 holiday from December 29 to January 1, 280 people died in traffic accidents in Thailand, up 10 percent from the same period last year. 

 

 Around 43 percent of traffic accidents were caused by drunk drivers while 82 percent of accidents involved motorbikes.-VNA</s>BANGKOK – A van and a pickup collided and caught fire on a highway in eastern Thailand on Monday afternoon, killing 25 people, authorities said.

The public transit van lost control and crossed the grass median, colliding with the pickup truck going in the opposite direction Monday afternoon, according to Thai Road Accident Data for Road Safety Culture, which compiles electronic insurance reports.

Twenty-five people were killed and two survived the crash, said police Col. Dusadee Kunchorn Na Ayutthaya, superintendent of the Ban Bung district police station in Chonburi province.

“An accident like this shouldn’t happen but it did,” Dusadee said. Both drivers were killed. Police were not yet able to interview the survivors but were investigating to determine what caused the crash.

Thailand has one of the highest traffic fatality rates in the world.</s>A minivan and a pickup truck collided in eastern Thailand yesterday, killing 25 people including two toddlers.

Police said the minivan driver lost control and ploughed into oncoming traffic in the eastern province of Chonburi.

Both vehicles burst into flames. Police said 15 people were inside the minivan and another 12 in the pickup truck.</s>Some 25 people have died after a van and a pickup truck crashed and caught fire in eastern Thailand.

The van lost control and crossed the grass median, crashing into the pickup truck travelling in the opposite direction.</s>A van and a pickup truck were burned in an accident on Road 344 in Ban Bung district in Chon Buri. Twenty-five people, including a three-year-old boy, were killed when two vehicles collided and caught fire on a highway in Ban Bung district, Chon Buri province, on Monday afternoon.

Start the conversation, or Read more at Bangkok Post.</s>Two Cambodian migrant workers died and more than a dozen were injured in Thailand on Friday when the truck they were travelling in hit another truck head-on.

Chen Pesith, deputy director of the Cambodia-Thai Border Relations Office, said two Cambodian workers – Seng Chhaty, 28, and 34-year-old Mouch Sarmon – died in the truck accident, and as many as 20 were injured.

“Eight people were seriously injured and 12 had only minor injuries. Now they are being treated at a Thai hospital,” Pesith said yesterday.

The incident took place in Thailand’s Chanthaburi province, in Soi Dao district, with Pesith adding that the workers worked on fruit orchards.

The Bangkok Post reported that Sakda Sea Lao, the driver of their pickup truck, was one of the injured as well. An unidentified driver from the oncoming truck was also found injured and trapped in the wreckage. However, the Bangkok Post pegged the total number of injured at 18.

The Thai newspaper also reported that the workers were headed to Soi Dao district to renew their worker permits at a border checkpoint.

While truck accidents involving Cambodian garment workers travelling domestically is common, rights group Adhoc’s Sam Chankea said many migrant workers used similarly dangerous transport to get to-and-from the border.

“They pack all the workers in small cars and sometimes the drivers drive at very high speeds,” he said. “I think the government should create jobs for them [here] rather them let them risk their lives.”</s>At least 25 people, including a three-year-old boy, were killed today in a horrific accident when two vehicles collided and caught fire on a highway in eastern Thailand, police said. A pickup truck heading to Klaeng district in Rayong with 12 passengers in the cab and the open cargo area crashed with a van coming from the opposite direction, resulting in a fire on the two vehicles in the eastern province of Chonburi, the Bangkok Post reported. The van was carrying 15 passengers from Chanthaburi to Bangkok when the accident took place this afternoon.

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Police said 11 people in the truck and 14 people in the van, including the three-year-old boy, died.

They said the van driver might have lost control of the vehicle, which crossed a dividing road ditch to the other side and hit the truck.

The blast might have been caused by the compressed natural gas cylinder in the van, they added.

The clash claimed the most lives during the New Year holidays, which killed 280 people since the government started the road safety campaign on Thursday, the report said.

According to the World Health Organization, Thailand has the world’s second most dangerous roads in 2015 in terms of per capita deaths despite relatively good infrastructure.</s>The crash happened in Ban Bueng District, Chonburi Province, about 114 kilometers (71 miles) southeast of Bangkok, when the van driver lost control and veered across the highway into oncoming traffic, said Lt. Col. Viroj Chiemcharas, deputy chief to the Ban Bueng Provincial Police Station.

In the van, 14 people were killed and one person survived, he said.

In the pickup truck, nine adults and two children were killed and one person survived.

The two survivors are being treated at local hospitals.
A traffic collision between a minivan and a pickup truck in the Ban Bueng District of Chonburi Province, Thailand kills at least 25 people and leaves 2 others injured. Authorities investigate the cause of the accident.