Man dies while sleeping in pickup truck

Police search a pickup truck for evidence after driver Manoon Sipetch was found dead in the vehicle in Muang district of Sakhon Sawan province on Sunday. (Photo by Chalit Pumruang)

NAKHON SAWAN - A man was found dead in his pickup truck on Sunday, apparently after parking the vehicle in order to take a nap.

Pol Lt Col Samran Sukto, the Bang Muang police station chief, said that after checking the body and the truck parked at the side of Road 117 in Muang district, police had found no evidence that Manoon Sipetch was attacked.

Col Samran said Manoon, 47, could have died from suffocation. The engine was not running and the petrol tank was empty when police and rescue workers arrived after an alert from local people. He had been dead for at least 10 hours, he said.

He might have been exhausted or had a medical problem while he was driving, and decided to pull the vehicle over to rest, he added.

Manoon was found in the driver's seat, adjusted to a decline position.

Witnesses told police that the vehicle had been parked at the spot since Saturday evening.

His wife, Sasiwan Onburi, 41, confirmed the man's identity after seeing the body. She had been looking for her husband when she was contacted by police.

She said she had no contact with him after he left their house in Kamphaeng Phet province to sell amulets at a market in Sakhon Sawan on Saturday. Her husband suffered from diabetes and high blood pressure, she said.



