Graphic: Woman applying makeup gets eye liner pencil jammed into her eye when taxi she was travelling in hits pick up

A woman was rushed to hospital on Tuesday, after getting her eye liner pencil jammed in her eye

when the taxi she was travelling in was involved in an accident in Bangkok, Thailand.

The unnamed woman had been applying makeup in the back of the taxi when it c

ollided with a pick up truck near the Din Daeng intersection at 5.20pm on Tuesday evening.

When rescue workers arrived at the scene they found the woman with almost the whole of the eye

liner pencil lodged in her eye.

The woman, who was still conscious had blood coming from her nose. She had been travelling from

Mo Chit bus terminal to Pratunam when the accident occured.

This morning , Thai media reported that doctors had managed to safely remove the pencil and

described the woman’s condition as stable.

The woman was expected to make a full recovery with no lasting damage to her eye, doctors said.