This is the shocking moment a pickup truck lost control on a wet road and slammed into an electrical pole.<br /><br />The vehicle spun into the opposite lane while driving in heavy rain in Nakhon Si Thammarat, southern Thailand.<br /><br />CCTV footage from Wednesday (15th October) afternoon shows how the truck skidded across the road and smashed into the concrete post, which instantly split the car in half.<br /><br />The driver and a passenger were stuck in the car and needed to be cut free while the two other passengers could climb out.<br /><br />Paramedics took the injured group to hospital but the driver KhunThawatchai, 28, woke up and ran away before police had a chance to interview him. <br /><br />Police Liutenant Colonel Theerawut Thepluen said hospital cameras had recorded him runningaway which they would use as the evidence to find him.<br /><br />He said: "The driver ran away after he gained consciousness at the hospital and the CCTV was able to show when he left.<br /><br />"We will find him and interrogate him, because perhaps he was intoxicated while driving and caused the accident so he ran away."
