Man "racing on the highway" dies after Civic cut in two by tree

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Police believe that a man was having a race with another vehicle on a road notorious for speeding in Bangkok before he lost control, mounted the footpath and slammed into a tree.

 

Por Teck Tung medics had to cut 41 year old Thaweesak Premphone from the driver's seat of his white Honda Civic after the crash around 11pm last night on the Prasertmanukit road outbound 100 meters from the Sukhontawat intersection.

 

He had broken legs, arms and neck and was dead. His vehicle was virtually cut in two.

 

A witness told the Khok Khram police that the Civic had been racing with a Toyota Vigo pick-up truck that left the scene of the accident.

 

They said that the Civic had swerved for some reason at high speed with the driver losing control.

 

Police are looking for the driver of the Vigo as investigations continue.

 

But police strongly suspect that the victim was racing with the driver of the Vigo, reported Daily News.

 

Thaivisa notes that the wide dual carriageway from Kaset to Nawamin is well known in the northern Bangkok area as a road where drivers do speed tests, especially at night, and sometimes race. 

 

Source: Daily News

 

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I'm deeply concerned about the tree. 

i used to live in nawamin. loads of racing at night time. bikes and cars

Happy to read that this problem solved itself.

 

Maybe keep the BiB away, plant some more trees, and communicate clearly there are no speed cameras there.

2 hours ago, Bob12345 said:

Happy to read that this problem solved itself.

 

Maybe keep the BiB away, plant some more trees, and communicate clearly there are no speed cameras there.

 

2 hours ago, Eddie Charles said:

I'm deeply concerned about the tree. 

 

Yep, excellent point,.... 1 mother <deleted> less in Thailand, on the way to hell.

Losing a street race to a pick up truck? Sad!

30 minutes ago, Eddie Charles said:

I'm deeply concerned about the tree. 

The Darwinian theory yet again.   There are motorcyclists trying similar stunts on a main road in Chiang Mai around midnight.

They'll never be caught  -  it's after sunset.

Cant see it that was a Civic FB or FD. A stock 1.8 Civic would not beat a diesel pickup for the first 100M drag.

57 minutes ago, Gulfsailor said:

Losing a street race to a pick up truck? Sad!

No - in this case a tree 

quod erat demonstrandum: a Honda Civic is not a racing car....

5 minutes ago, sawadee1947 said:

quod erat demonstrandum: a Honda Civic is not a racing car....

I reckon the Civic driver is not a racing driver....

One less moron on the roads, good news all around I would say.

Okay with me. And, he was 41 and still acting like a hot-headed teenager. Not that his mental age necessarily reached double figures.

No brain no pain  No more Thai smile from him i would say  Why did the amulat not save him ?

14 minutes ago, Happyman58 said:

No brain no pain  No more Thai smile from him i would say  Why did the amulat not save him ?

Maybe it was fake 

Sure glad it wasn't anyone I know or love.   

 

Reveling in another human being's death is pretty despicable, even if they did die doing something stupid and dangerous.

 

They left behind families who will be grieving horribly.  And here we have people joking about how glad they are.

 

5 minutes ago, impulse said:

Sure glad it wasn't anyone I know or love.   

 

Reveling in another human being's death is pretty despicable, even if they did die doing something stupid and dangerous.

 

They left behind families who will be grieving horribly.  And here we have people joking about how glad they are.

 

You might feel differently if he hit and killed a member of your family instead of himself. If he is too juvenile to know the danger he posed to himself and more importantly to others then the world is better off without him. He was an inconsiderate idiot who had no business being in charge of a potential killing machine.

9 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said:

You might feel differently if he hit and killed a member of your family instead of himself. If he is too juvenile to know the danger he posed to himself and more importantly to others then the world is better off without him. He was an inconsiderate idiot who had no business being in charge of a potential killing machine.

Did you read he took someone else out, I mean with two legs..?

No sympathy from me for people who use the public roads like racetracks...one less moron on the roads. 

2 hours ago, sawadee1947 said:

quod erat demonstrandum: a Honda Civic is not a racing car....

Put exhaust on it and some how its a race car

12 minutes ago, Coconutman said:

Put exhaust on it and some how its a race car

You are right. Next I'll put it on my push bike........ 

2 hours ago, transam said:

I reckon the Civic driver is not a racing driver....

Well probably both is right 

6 hours ago, webfact said:

is well known in the northern Bangkok area as a road where drivers do speed tests,

Speed tests... not racing... it’s all good. Almost

 

 

2 hours ago, impulse said:

They left behind families who will be grieving horribly.  And here we have people joking about how glad they are.

You misunderstood, I wasn't joking, morons like him and his ilk have no right using the public highway as their own private racetrack. Unfortunately too many do, and innocent people die and innocent families are left to pick up the pieces. 

 

Brainless. Very sorry for the tree though.

2 hours ago, impulse said:

Sure glad it wasn't anyone I know or love.   

 

Reveling in another human being's death is pretty despicable, even if they did die doing something stupid and dangerous.

 

They left behind families who will be grieving horribly.  And here we have people joking about how glad they are.

 

I can't sad I pitty him or his family I actually happy this morron died think if if kill someone you love my parents get killed because of a stupid man as him 

These damn trees again, why can't they stay in the countryside where they belong instead of walking around towns cutting cars in half.

1 hour ago, Henrik Andersen said:

I can't sad I pitty him or his family I actually happy this morron died think if if kill someone you love my parents get killed because of a stupid man as him 

 

Over the years, I've been to the funerals of several kids and adults who were killed driving drunk and driving recklessly. 

 

Thank God none of you were at those funerals, showing the kind of compassion being exhibited here.  And I hope none of them show up at your loved one's funeral, even if they've wrapped themselves around a tree doing something stupid.  And make no mistake.  We, and most of our loved ones have done something stupid in our lives. 

 

But I guess it's just the strangers who deserve to die for it.

 

5 hours ago, Golden Triangle said:

One less moron on the roads, good news all around I would say.

 

Not for the team who had to cut the bloody mess out of the car or the crew who had to take the remains to the hospital.

 

They are the people who get my admiration.

 

As for the idiot in the Honda Civic, som nam na.

7 hours ago, impulse said:

Sure glad it wasn't anyone I know or love.   

 

Reveling in another human being's death is pretty despicable, even if they did die doing something stupid and dangerous.

 

They left behind families who will be grieving horribly.  And here we have people joking about how glad they are.

 

 

Next time their families will try to raise or marry less stupid "humans".