Cambodia News, (Kampong Speu): Preliminary information on Saturday morning, August 05, 2023, at 05:58am, at Trea village, Penay commune, Samrong Tong district, there was a white Hyundai truck without license plate weighing 2.5 tons, that was transporting more than 70 workers to their job at a garment factory.

Kampong Speu Provincial Police confirmed that the driver lost control of his overloaded vehicle while turning a corner, and the truck left the road and tipped over down an embankment. The truck driver was identified as Kea Tina, male. 24-year-old resident of Kandok village, Prey Krasaing commune, Samaki Monichey district.

According to Colonel Khuth Sophal, Samrong Tong District Inspector, more than 30 people needed hospital treatment for their injuries, and police have transported them to a private hospital.

Truck transporting Cambodian garment workers overturns, leaving 60 injured: police
Sunday, 06 Aug 2023
4:46 PM MYT
PHNOM PENH (Xinhua): A truck transporting garment workers to their factory flipped onto its side in southwest Cambodia's Kampong Speu province on Saturday morning, leaving 60 workers wounded, a provincial senior police official said.

The accident occurred in Samraong Tong district when the truck's driver drove fast and crashed at a curve in the road, said Tab Lon, Kampong Speu provincial deputy police chief in charge of road traffic.

"The truck overturned and threw workers into a paddy field," he told Xinhua. "Sixty workers got injured including 10 in serious condition."

Those ill-fated workers had been rushed to nearby hospitals, Lon said, adding that the police are hunting for the 24-year-old male driver, who escaped the scene soon after the crash.

According to the official, the truck carried a total of more than 70 factory workers at the time of the accident.

Transporting workers in open trucks to and from factories are common in this Southeast Asian country.

According to the National Social Security Fund, some 17 factory workers died, 200 were seriously injured and 479 slightly wounded during their commutes to and from work in the first quarter of 2023.
The country's multibillion-U.S.-dollar garment industry comprises roughly 1,100 factories, employing around 750,000 workers.
- Xinhua

People should post these pictures on the Twitter/Facebook pages of Gymshark et al

"These are the people that made your £50 shirt for £5 a day - LOL"

Western governments make so much more in sales taxes than these people get paid. And then boast about reducing carbon outputs - by offshoring manufacturing.