They are pleasant to look at, and make driving less strenuous.

Jun 16, The pickup, a Bangkok-registered white Toyota Hilux, ran off the highway and plunged down the side of the ravine through a dense stand of krathin trees.

Like the pradoo, it is a hardwood with branches that do not easily break.

The trees cushioned the fall. Sep 16, PHUKET: Police are urging motorists to exercise caution on Phuket’s roads today after strong winds felled a tree that landed on a pickup truck in Kamala this morning.

Rescue workers were called to the scene, on the road between Patong and Kamala, on Phuket’s west coast, at about am. “The pickup driver had left Patong and was on his way to Kamala when the tree fell on his pickup.

The fallen trees, however, rendered a part of Aljunied Road towards Upper Aljunied Road impassable last night, prompting traffic to turn back and use other routes.

Jun 10, An wheel truck carrying a oversize load through Bangkok early Friday morning crashed into a pedestrian overpass, which then fell on a pickup truck killing. Jul 14, This idiotic practice defeats the purpose of planting trees, which is to beautify the landscape as well as to provide shade for motorists.

Pradoo is. Last week's column on Pterocarpus indicus, or pradoo, in bloom on Rama IV Road made me pay closer attention to trees along Bangkok's streets. Five days a week I have to fetch my grandson from Missing: motorist. Dec 14, Like a scene out of a disaster movie, a motorist witnessed the moment when two towering trees fell onto the road out of the blue, crushing a vehicle in front of him. Albert Liang’s dashcam caught the whole thing yesterday along Aljunied Road as the two large trees struck down across the entire road, trapping a white van underneath the trunks.