Two people drowned and two others were injured when an actor’s jet ski hit a boat in the Chao Phraya River in Phra Pradaeng district late Saturday night.
The accident happened in the middle of the river at about 9pm on Saturday when the jet ski hit a small motorboat that was crossing the river near Wat Bang Krachao Nok.
On impact, a woman passenger on the ferry and its driver fell off their boat and went missing. Rescue workers found the body of a 44-year-old ferry passenger and the 64-year-old driver on the riverbed near the sunken engine of their boat.
Mongkolsawat Woenkrathok, 48, said he and his wife hired the ferry driver to bring them from the Bang Krachao Nok bank to the Rama III bank and he survived the collision.
Two passengers on the jet ski were slightly injured.
Jet ski driver and actor Shindanai sae Lim said he could not see the ferry because it had no lights and the vehicles were too close for him to stop the collision.
The actor said he was bringing his girlfriend and her mother back from a riverside restaurant in Phra Pradaeng and they were among a group of 11 people travelling on five jet skis who were returning to their pier in Chom Thong district, Bangkok.
