Three people were injured when their pickup truck flipped over while turning a bend on a road in Thailand.

The construction workers were riding the Isuzu D-Max truck along Khon Kaen province when three of its tires suddenly blew out on January 12 morning.

The vehicle skidded onto the central island and continued moving some 160 feet before overturning in the middle of one lane.

Police and medics arrived at the scene, where the black truck lay upside-down. Three people, including one with a broken arm, were rushed to the Khon Kaen Hospital.

Authorities said there were seven people inside the truck when the crash occurred. They detained the driver, Sornsri Phujomkaew, 47, who was waiting for officers at the scene.

Sornsri told the cops that he was taking the workers from Kalasin province to Khon Kaen. He said: 'I was trying to overtake another car, but the tires suddenly exploded. I was trying to regain control by driving on the central traffic island when the truck flipped over.'

Police Lieutenant Colonel Wisut Kuakul, deputy superintendent at the Muang Mai Police Station, said: 'From examining the scene and the condition of the car, it was found that the tires were deteriorated. There was hardly any tread left. In addition, the scene of the accident was a curve, but the truck was moving at a high speed.

'We are preparing to file charges against Mr. Sornsri for driving carelessly causing others to suffer physical or mental harm.'

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 along with notoriously easy driving tests, police failures to enforce road laws, and chronic under-investment in infrastructure, all appear to hamper the efforts.