Hat Yai: Car driver flees the scene on foot after motorcycle couple thrown off bridge

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Hat Yai: Car driver flees the scene on foot after motorcycle couple thrown off bridge

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Police in Hat Yai in Thailand's south are looking for the diver of a Toyota Camry after a married couple were killed in a collision on a bridge over the railway tracks. 

 

Hat Yai police found the Camry abandoned on the bridge on Petchkasem Road. It had Bangkok license plates - ภต (phor tor) 296. 

 

Nearby was a Honda Wave on its side. 

 

On the road surface 4 meters below were Sakkarin Sae-tan, 63, and his wife Somporn, 60. 

 

They had suffered head trauma and were dead at the scene. 

 

There were no witnesses but Hat Yai police said that the couple had been to the market and were heading out of town while the Camry driver was heading into Hat Yai. 

 

The incident happened around 5 am Sunday morning near the Hat Yai railway station. 

 

Source: Daily News

 



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[NCC1701A]

god damn these Thai drivers to hell.

[Briggsy]

9 minutes ago, webfact said:

5 am Sunday morning

Elderly couple doing early morning market run vs Drunk on all night bender.

[neeray]

Caution when motoring over bridges or raised roads!

Have read too many reports lately of persons ending up dead, one level down.

 

Sad for the couple to die this way in their early sixties.

[richard_smith237]

Doing a runner is enought to indicate total fault and DUI in my opinion. 

 

There should be no proof needed under such circumstances. Fleeing the scene should automatically come with the highest penalty - I think in this case its Manslaughter.

[Mavideol]

R.I.P for the old couple

Fleeing the scene on foot and leaving the car behind with license plates, what a stupid thing to do, should be an easy to find search

[RotBenz8888]

I surprise story would have been if the driver stayed at the scene, tried to help the hurt, called for help- police/ambulance.

[Pilotman]

These drivers are cowards and totally stupid, as if they won't get found out. The shocking thing is that it happens in so many cases of a crash, that by definition, at any one time, the roads must be full of many thousands of stupid Thai cowards. 

[PatOngo]

3 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

god damn these Thai drivers to hell.

Hell is not big enough for all the bad drivers, that's why they are still driving.

[kannot]

22 minutes ago, robertallinson said:

It was very dangerous accident i was there at that time when accident occurred, and i called to motorcycle towing service company. to pick up the wreckage.  

more  details  would  be  good  as  see  many MANY motorbikes  now with no  lights on especially rears

[giddyup]

3 hours ago, Pilotman said:

These drivers are cowards and totally stupid, as if they won't get found out. The shocking thing is that it happens in so many cases of a crash, that by definition, at any one time, the roads must be full of many thousands of stupid Thai cowards. 

I have never heard of anyone being charged with leaving the scene of an accident. By the time they are caught (if) they have sobered up so can't be charged with DUI. It's normal behaviour for Thais to do a runner, gutless I know, but TIT.

Edited March 4, 2019 by giddyup

[JimmyJ]

4 hours ago, Mavideol said:

R.I.P for the old couple

Fleeing the scene on foot and leaving the car behind with license plates, what a stupid thing to do, should be an easy to find search

Unless it's a stolen car.

[Youlike]

1 hour ago, PatOngo said:

Hell is not big enough for all the bad drivers, that's why they are still driving.

Nope that's because Thailand has the most lazy police force of the world.

[Cereal]

I gather the reason to pull a runner is to be sober when they catch you. Then, it's nigh on impossible to get blamed for being drunk while driving and causing the crash.

 

I guess the folks who were killed weren't wearing helmets. 4 meters is a serious fall but they died of head trauma. With helmets, who knows, they may have lived.

 

They need to pass a law: flee the scene of an accident is a minimum of 5 years.

[poohy]

Sad news for the couple

However i drive home from Prachuap most evenings into the countryside say 15KM

as stated earlier i would say 85% of motorbikes/saleangs in the rural areas have no back lights, some No lights

Accidents waiting to happen!

[Almer]

1 hour ago, kannot said:

more  details  would  be  good  as  see  many MANY motorbikes  now with no  lights on especially rears

Agreed  but in thus case thety met head on, in the same issue about no rear lights, why i ask di parents alike allow there iff sring to go out st night with a bike with no lights and if i rear end a bike at night with no lights is that a defense ? 

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

Doing a runner is enought to indicate total fault and DUI in my opinion. 

 

There should be no proof needed under such circumstances. Fleeing the scene should automatically come with the highest penalty - I think in this case its Manslaughter.

In Thailand it's around 500 baht & a wai !!

[Keithmovieman]

Geez, that is tragic. Very sad.

[Vacuum]

5 hours ago, Mavideol said:

R.I.P for the old couple

Fleeing the scene on foot and leaving the car behind with license plates, what a stupid thing to do, should be an easy to find search

'Borrowed'/stolen vehicle?

[GreenerGrass]

6 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

god damn these Thai drivers to hell.

After years of reading this forum I have finally decided to become a member. primarily to comment about Thai driving habits. It is so unbelievable how many people die every day on the roads of Thailand. Drivers in general do not worry about the consequences, it appears there isn't any. Kill someone and your back on the road the following day, it is so disturbing. I think this Top Cop Surachate "Big Joke" Hakparn should be put in charge of getting this sorted out, it is seriously wrong!   

[oldrunner]

Drunk...it's called vehicular Homicide or Murder.

[robblok]

1 hour ago, poohy said:

Sad news for the couple

However i drive home from Prachuap most evenings into the countryside say 15KM

as stated earlier i would say 85% of motorbikes/saleangs in the rural areas have no back lights, some No lights

Accidents waiting to happen!

I hate that, it makes it real dangerous. I see it here in Bangkok too but less. At least the roads here are often well lighted but i doubt that is the case in the countryside.

 

I get that the car driver is responsible but if the motorcycle had no lights and or wore no helmets they are complicit too.

[swissbie]

2 hours ago, kannot said:

more  details  would  be  good  as  see  many MANY motorbikes  now with no  lights on especially rears

It doesn't really matter, if their lights were on or off. The couple fell of the nordside of the bridge driving out of town, the street lights are quiet bright there and it wasn't raining. The question is much more; what the hell did the Camry driver?

[ubon farang]

Cops will get serious on this one. Since 2 people were killed 500+500 plus 2 wai  Oh wow the driver will be shaking in his boots. Don't worry about leaving the accident scene that's nothing.

[IAMHERE]

Who knows who was driving the car, could of been many people. Hope the key chain had other keys on it and was left in the car. I also wonder who used the local cell tower at that time of the morning. I sure hope and pray the BIB get the culprit and that Thailand penalizes him/her.

[Pilotman]

5 hours ago, poohy said:

Sad news for the couple

However i drive home from Prachuap most evenings into the countryside say 15KM

as stated earlier i would say 85% of motorbikes/saleangs in the rural areas have no back lights, some No lights

Accidents waiting to happen!

couple of months ago I passed a cop on a motorbike, at night, no rear lights !  

[metisdead]

Some troll posts and the replies have been removed. 

[billd766]

7 hours ago, poohy said:

Sad news for the couple

However i drive home from Prachuap most evenings into the countryside say 15KM

as stated earlier i would say 85% of motorbikes/saleangs in the rural areas have no back lights, some No lights

Accidents waiting to happen!

I sometimes pick up my 14 year son from school if he has been playing basketball and now I ask him to talk to me about what he can see in front of us.

 

I think it is one way of him learning about road safety. It is not only motorbikes without lights as there are a lot of cyclists too. They pay 20k or more for a bicycle and many don't even bother with front or rear lamps for a couple of hundred baht. Some even wear black clothes.

[Redline]

17 hours ago, Mavideol said:

R.I.P for the old couple

Fleeing the scene on foot and leaving the car behind with license plates, what a stupid thing to do, should be an easy to find search

He was probably drunk-he can go in the morning sober with some lame excuses 

Edited March 4, 2019 by Redline

[bbbbooboo]

..... hmmm...Just another day in the Land of Smiles