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A veteran British magazine publisher was killed in a car crash in Thailand on Monday afternoon.
Colin Hastings, publisher of the English-language 'Big Chilli' lifestyle magazine, crashed his car into a residential wall in Chonburi province on April 29.
Medics and rescuers pulled the 73-year-old out of his Toyota Vios, where the airbags had been deployed, and tried to revive him with CPR, to no avail.
He was declared dead at the scene at 3:15pm.
Colin's Thai daughter Angie Hastings, a former actress, posted a photo of her father on Instagram with a brief caption: 'I lost my father - we are still in shock. I just need some time.'
Angie appeared in several Thai television series and films between 2000-2016, and earned a Bachelor's degree in Media Studies from Kingston University.
The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand (FCCT) wrote in a tribute: 'A veteran British journalist with Fleet Street experience, Colin arrived in Bangkok in 1973, and worked on numerous publications with the Bangkok Post and at Media Transasia.'
Colin's smashed up car is seen outside a house in Chonburi province, Thailand, following the crash. Oil can be seen leaking from the damaged car
Medics and rescuers pulled the 73-year-old out of his Toyota Vios, where the airbags had been deployed, and tried to revive him with CPR, to no avail
Colin's Thai daughter Angie Hastings, a former actress, posted a photo of her father on Instagram with a brief caption: 'I lost my father - we are still in shock. I just need some time'
Colin Hastings, 73, from Kingston, was the publisher of the English-language 'Big Chilli' lifestyle magazine in Thailand
Police Lieutenant Santichon Hoomart of the Sattahip Police Station said: 'The car may have been travelling at a high speed before the collision. It was found that the driver had an underlying medical condition. We are investigating if this caused the crash.'
The policeman said that the homeowner called the police when the car crashed into their wall.
The officer added: 'The victim is not believed to have been drunk. There was no smell of alcohol. There are no other charges in the case and nobody is under suspicion of any crimes.
'It was an accident. The driver's insurance will pay for the damage to the wall.'
Colin's body was taken to the Institute of Forensic Medicine at the Bangkok Police Hospital for a
