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'Reckless' driver smashes into office building after car slips on wet road in Thailand

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This is the shocking moment a 'reckless' driver smashed into an office building when her car slipped on a wet road in Thailand.

Dramatic footage shows the black sedan ramming a motorcycle before crashing through the glass entrance of a finance company in Phang Nga province on May 31.

Mueang Phang Nga district police officers arrived to inspect the crash site - the Muangthai Capital lending company office located across a market in the province.

The accident had damaged the office's chairs, desks, glass entrance, shutters, and a portion of the wall.

Officers also found a crushed Honda motorcycle, a damaged black Benz, and the driver's car.

The female driver survived the crash with minor injuries.

She told cops she had been travelling from Phuket to the Phang Nga Provincial Court to run errands, and was on her way home when she turned a curve and lost control on the drenched road.

Police Lieutenant Colonel Vittaya Sinchamroen of the Mueang Phang Nga Police Station said: 'No one else was injured because the office was empty at the time. We learned that the driver was operating the vehicle recklessly with excessive speed. She will be charged with reckless driving and causing damage to another person's property.'

Thailand has one of the world's worst road safety records. Ministers have set the goal of reducing fatalities from 32.7 deaths per 100,000 people to 12 per 100,000 people by the year 2027.

However, a lack of road safety education in schools, cheap loans for cars, notoriously easy driving tests, police failures to enforce road laws as well as endemic corruption and chronic under-investment in infrastructure hamper the efforts.

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