A South Korean tourist was killed after rear-ending a container truck in Thailand.

Dongyeob Lee, 43, reportedly slammed into the truck while driving along Motorway 7 in 'Sin City' Pattaya, on March 1.

Police arrived at the scene after receiving a report at 3:06 am. They found the Korean's destroyed Mitsubishi Mirage with its bonnet completely smashed and debris strewn across the road.

Rescue teams extracted Lee from the wreckage. He was rushed to the Pattaya Patmakul Hospital but was later declared dead.

A highway police spokesman said: ‘We will inspect the scene and check security camera footage to determine the cause of the accident.

‘As for the Korean man's body, it will be kept at the Pattaya Patmakul Hospital until his relatives are able to collect it.'

The Thai truck driver Korakot Torrobram, 33, said he was coasting along the highway when he felt the vehicle shake violently.

He said: 'While I was driving away from the toll booth, I suddenly felt something crash into the rear of the truck. I immediately parked on the roadside to check what was wrong, and found that a car had crashed into it. I called the officers because there was someone seriously injured inside.'

The fatal accident is the latest involving tourist deaths in Pattaya.

On February 19, two Chinese tourists were killed and two others were injured when their SUV crashed into a 22-wheeler truck emerging from a motorway tunnel in the same city.

On February 16, German father Mario Dieter Prade, 44, was killed when he crashed headlong into an oncoming Toyota Fortuner.

Police arrived at the scene and found the husband's mangled body splayed out among debris.

On February 6, an American motorbike rider was also killed in a gruesome crash, also in Pattaya City.

Leo Williams, 52, from Florida, was on a high-speed joyride when he lost control of his motorbike in the early hours of the morning. He was turning a curve but shot right into the tree-lined median strip in the Soi Thap Phraya 9 area.

The motorbike ripped through trees before toppling over in the middle of an intersection. Police later found Leo with his chest torn open.

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.