This is the shocking moment three British teenagers were injured after a tree fell on their moving bus in Thailand.
The trio of young women were among 11 injured following the incident in which the entire trunk of a wormwood crashed into the roof of a bus in Kanchanaburi.
A 19-year-old from London, a 19-year-old from Welwyn Garden City, and an 18-year-old from Oxford were on board the 54-year-old’s vehicle when the tree fell.
Exciting footage captured by a car traveling behind the bus shows the tree slowly collapsing onto the roof of the bus.
According to local reports, an illegal logger had cut it down with a chainsaw.
The driver of the blue bus skidded the vehicle to the other side of the road while the tourists on board screamed in terror and came within a few meters of falling down a slope.
When police arrived at the scene, they found 36 passengers inside, adding that 11, including the British women, were rushed to hospital for treatment.
Police Lieutenant Colonel Maneephat Pengklet, an investigator at Lat Ya police station, said police were notified of the accident at 10am on Friday.
A trio of teenagers are among 11 injured after an incident in which an entire trunk of wormwood crashed through the roof of a bus in Kanchanaburi.
A 19-year-old from London, a 19-year-old from Welwyn Garden City, and an 18-year-old from Oxford were on board the 54-year-old’s vehicle when the tree fell.
Most of the passengers suffered minor injuries and have since been released from the hospital.
Dashboard camera footage of a traveling car was captured at the moment the tree collapsed
He said: “At the scene, on Highway 3199, a blue Benz passenger bus was found.
‘He was heading towards Erawan waterfall and a wormwood tree on the side of the road had fallen on him. The windshield was smashed.
‘The initial inspection found at least 30 foreign passengers. There were 10 people injured by broken glass and broken branches.’
The injured were rushed to the local Synphaet hospital for treatment.
Most of the passengers suffered minor injuries and have since been discharged.
A Canadian tourist, Jaime Michelle Mitchell, 45, was taken to the ICU with a neck splint.
Land transport official Thawatchai Wiriyajit said he will bear the hospital bills of patients.
The tree had been felled by an illegal logger using a chainsaw, according to local reports.
The windshield of the bus was completely shattered.
Police arrived at the scene and found 36 passengers inside. They said 11 were taken to the hospital for treatment.
Authorities said the fallen tree was reportedly surrounded by piles of sawdust and showed signs of having been cut with a tool.
Paitoon Inthabut, head of the Salak Phra Wildlife Sanctuary, said rangers were sent to locate the suspect, who is believed to live not far from the area.
He said: ‘We found out that someone was cutting down a tree illegally, which caused the accident. We already have suspects in mind.
Police later arrested Wasin, 39, who was found storing tree-cutting tools in his white Isuzu pickup truck.
Police also found a document confirming he was selling wood.
Athisak Intra, governor of Kanchanaburi province, said he had ordered a thorough investigation into the incident.