Charge for airport taxi driver in deadly wipeout finally handed to prosecutor

By Terence Chulavachana

 

The scene of the wipeout accident on Oct 30 last year. Photo: Seang Prachachon Kon Phuket / Facebook
 

PHUKET:-- More than seven months after a Phuket airport taxi driver wiped out six vehicles and killed a motorbike rider whilst driving a tourist from the airport during morning rush hour traffic, the lead police investigator has now handed the case over to the Phuket Public Prosecutor’s Office to proceed with legal action.
 

The police investigation, led by Capt Suporn Mueangkai of the Thalang Police, took 217 days complete.

 

Capt Suporn confirmed to The Phuket News today, “The case of a taxi driver, Marut Puangsombat, who hit six vehicles in October 2018, killing one, was sent to Phuket Prosecutor Office on Tuesday (June 4).

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“The reason for the accident was that Marut was driving very fast like other taxi drivers."

Obviously there was nobody of any status worth the merit of continuing the farce, now it will glide under the radar and dissolve itself....

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Despite the major accident, Marut has been free to continue working as a taxi driver picking up and dropping off tourists at Phuket International Airport during the tourism high season while the investigation into the accident has continued.

And I suppose he will continue to do so.

That taxi is totaled and on its roof. How did dude manage to get going fast enough for that much damage to be done during rush hour traffic?

Looks like he was in a rush to kill everything in sight just normal here????

18 minutes ago, Cereal said:

That taxi is totaled and on its roof. How did dude manage to get going fast enough for that much damage to be done during rush hour traffic?

Practice!!

Nope- still haven't spotted a comment from a Phuketian! I'm off to the Nakon Nowhere thread to post some irrelevant comment there.????

6 months...must have been paying off the cops in monthly installments and missed his latest....

Took ONLY 217 days... WOW!!!