Hunt for driver after two hit-and-run fatalities in Pathum Thani

By The Nation

 

 

Police are searching for a hit-and-run SUV driver, believed to be from Myanmar, who killed two people in separate accidents only 500 metres apart in Pathum Thani's Klong Luang district early on Thursday.

 

The first victim was identified as Prasit Kladkhemphet, 40, from Chanthaburi. He was hit after he parked his pickup truck on the roadside and was crossing the road.

 

About 500 metres away, the second victim, a 30-year-old Vietnamese identified only as Bird, was killed as a Mitsubishi Pajero fled the scene after the driver lost control and hit the meatball vendor's sidecar, police said.

 

Klong Luang police said the driver of the SUV is believed to be from Myanmar. The double fatality occurred at 2am in front of the Iyara Market in Tambon Klong Song.

 

Eyewitness Pradit Emphan, 51, said he saw the SUV swaying left and right before it hit the vendor's sidecar and plunged into a ditch. The driver then left the SUV and fled on foot.

 

While police were checking the scene, a Thai woman, Waraporn Phapan, 32, showed up at the scene and told police that the SUV belonged to her Myanmar husband, Lek, 37.

 

Waraporn said she did not know why her husband drove to the area because their house was in Thonburi. She said her husband called her to get the SUV after the fatalities. She said she could could not contact him again.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30361974

 

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Just installed a dash Cam camera today...not going to stop hit and run drivers but may help to apprehend them. 

 

Happens all to often. 

9 minutes ago, Puchaiyank said:

Just installed a dash Cam camera today...not going to stop hit and run drivers but may help to apprehend them. 

 

Happens all to often. 

Depends on their status.

 

Every vehicle here should have cams. Bikes too. If for nothing else, entertainment value.

1 hour ago, dcnx said:

Depends on their status.

 

Every vehicle here should have cams. Bikes too. If for nothing else, entertainment value.

I can film sooo many very dangerous/stupid situations on the roads here that i could easy open a youtube channel with it which would be very popular in the West.

 

Can we not all upload our short movies somewhere and somebody makes a funny movie about it with all bells and whistles?

3 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

She said her husband called her to get the SUV after the fatalities. She said she could could not contact him again.

 

What a man, such a hero...

Edited January 10, 20197 yr by Bluespunk

In Thailand you wouldn't know if you had one of those incidents where a terrorist purposely drives into innocent pedestrians or if its just another late night drunk on his way home. Appalling.

2 minutes ago, Lungstib said:

In Thailand you wouldn't know if you had one of those incidents where a terrorist purposely drives into innocent pedestrians or if its just another late night drunk on his way home. Appalling.

Or just another yaba user...

Well I see things are getting back to normal after the super dangerous seven days of the New Year.

Business as usual 

Just the daily game of skittles nothing new other than it was 500m apart RIP????