Jack Brown was driving on a road on Bangkok and thought he had punctured a tire when his vehicle deviated a little.
“I parked the car in Statary and I realized that the car still moved quite and immediately knew that it was an earthquake,” Brown told ABC News Live.
Concerned about being on the high road during the earthquake, he continued and saw a building in construction collapse “in seconds”. He captured the collapse in the video of his car.
“It was horrible to see that destruction, knowing that there is very likely many people on the site,” he said.
At least eight people died in the collapse, since a search and rescue effort is being made for more than 100 who remain missing, police said.
Brown said he had never experienced something like that in his 10 years of life in Bangkok.
“When you are in an earthquake, you don’t know if you are at the beginning of it, the medium or the end. Will there be other aftershocks or any other earthquake after this? Will they get worse?” said. “There was concern, but I had no precedents for me, I really didn’t know what to expect or what to do, and I just wanted to continue moving and get away from that area.”
