Victims of 2010 road accident to finally get compensation

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Victims of 2010 road accident to finally get compensation

By Kesinee Taengkhiao
The Nation

 

 

 

 

The families of nine people killed in a 2010 road accident in Bangkok involving an underage driver widely known by her nickname “Praewa” will finally receive monetary compensation.

 

Praewa's family would hand over the money to the Civil Court on Ratchadaphisek Road on Tuesday (August 6), a source at the court said on Monday.

 

The total amount is Bt42,637,810.40, which includes the original compensation amount of Bt25,781,137 for the families of the deceased and the injured victims, plus interest at 7.5 per annum amounting to Bt16,650,023.40 (calculated from December 27, 2010 to August 6, 2019) and related fees, the source said.

 

After hearing from Praewa's mother on Monday afternoon that she had finally managed to raise the money for the compensation before the August 28 deadline, Justice Ministry deputy permanent secretary Tawatchai Thaikyo told reporters he was happy for the victims' relatives who could collect the payments from the court soon. He suggested that Praewa's mother should quickly inform lawyers of the damaged persons about the handing over of the compensation to the court so as avoid being found violating the payment deadline or being subjected to additional interest claims. Tawatchai thanked all sides for bringing a closure to this case.

 

Praewa, then a teenager too young to have a driver’s licence, crashed her borrowed car into the back of a public van operating on the Thammasat University-Victory Monument route on the elevated Din Daeng-Don Muang tollway in Bang Khen district on December 27, 2010. Nine people were killed and six injured.

 

Some of the survivors complained last month that they still hadn’t received any compensation from Praewa even though the Supreme Court on May 8 had ruled in a civil case that she, her parents and the owner of the car she was driving had to pay a combined Bt25 million plus interest to the injured and the next of kin of those killed. The Justice Ministry had said if the compensation weren't paid before the August 28 deadline, the Execution Department would auction off the assets of the convicts to ensure the victims' families received their dues within six months.

 

The Supreme Court dismissed her appeal after the 2014 Appeal Court sentenced Praewa to two years in jail, which was then suspended for four years. She was placed on probation for three years. She was also ordered to perform 144 hours of community service, which she completed in 2016. Praewa also was banned from driving until the age of 25. She turns 25 this year.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30374272

 

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[Chelseafan]

I hope that the money gets to the families and isn't siphoned off.

A very tragic case indeed.

 

[RichardColeman]

so, not paying up on time , cost the family an extra 16 million baht ? that was daft.

[ezzra]

I'm sure that having to pay 42 millions is a major inconvenience for the family but not as much as the pain and sufferings the survivors and the families of the dead had to endure all those years partly owing to slow wheels of justice in this country and pitiful monetary values the put on a human life...

[YetAnother]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

The total amount is Bt42,637,810.40,

and i hope it bankrupts them

[Somtamnication]

6 years to complete 144 hours of community service; pathetic!

[legend49]

2 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

so, not paying up on time , cost the family an extra 16 million baht ? that was daft.

Thai logic. Like the airline, makes a loss so increases seat prices.

[jerojero]

Finally rounded up the money? Would have saved w6 million if paid 10 years ago. Idiot.

[ChipButty]

7 minutes ago, jerojero said:

Finally rounded up the money? Would have saved w6 million if paid 10 years ago. Idiot.

Maybe they thought they could get away without paying

[Hayduke]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Justice Ministry deputy permanent secretary Tawatchai Thaikyo told reporters he was happy for the victims' relatives who could collect the payments from the court soon.

 

Hopefully those wonderful people at the Justice Ministry will receive generous commissions....for their selfless dedication and hard work on behalf of the victims.

 

 

 

Edited August 6, 2019 by Hayduke

[nev]

I hope they make their daughter pay back every Baht send the bitch out to work.

[HampiK]

9 minutes ago, nev said:

I hope they make their daughter pay back every Baht send the bitch out to work.

What you think will happen with spoiled person! NOTHING

[amykat]

Why pay something today you MIGHT have to pay in 10 years???  You might be dead before then??

 

Like car insurance, a well educated Thai man said to me once, why would I pay for that if I don’t know for SURE if I will need it???

 

 

[Artisi]

1 hour ago, ChipButty said:

Maybe they thought they could get away without paying

That would be their thinking, don't you know who we are? 

[Artisi]

26 minutes ago, nev said:

I hope they make their daughter pay back every Baht send the bitch out to work.

The daughter is only partly to blame, like many kids at this age and into adults in Thailand still act and think like 10 year olds. 

Immature adults produce immature kids as in this case and the court agreed and fined the parents. Further, as for interest being paid, the settlement should have been doubled for a 10 year delay. 

 

[mikebell]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Praewa's mother should quickly inform lawyers

Thai lawyers'll all want their cut first.  A bunch of conniving do-nothings whose lowly reputation rivals even the RTP.

[Pumpuynarak]

59 minutes ago, nev said:

I hope they make their daughter pay back every Baht send the bitch out to work.

Send her and her parents to prison more like.

[BigFun]

He he...quickly got the cash together when the government threatened to auction off assets...let's see more of this ????

[Pumpuynarak]

49 minutes ago, amykat said:

Why pay something today you MIGHT have to pay in 10 years???  You might be dead before then??

 

Like car insurance, a well educated Thai man said to me once, why would I pay for that if I don’t know for SURE if I will need it???

 

 

Bingo, the mia noi who lives opposite me has a newish Camry and her paymaster has a newish Merc, both uninsured so she tells wifey. Her Camry was flooded out on one occasion when visiting her parents down south, cost 150K baht to put right, he paid.

 

What a mentality......  

[NanLaew]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Praewa also was banned from driving until the age of 25. She turns 25 this year.

I hope she gets a personalized number plate and the media lets us know what it is.

 

This only for the purpose of public safety of course.

[hotchilli]

2 hours ago, ChipButty said:

Maybe they thought they could get away without paying

They have for 9 years...

[Caldera]

For trying to dodge her community service alone, she should get an extra 2 million years in hell.

[cardinalblue]

I doubt they had to raise the money - more likely trying to void payment all these years

 

she is behind the wheel this year....

[Almer]

2 hours ago, ChipButty said:

Maybe they thought they could get away without paying

They were banking on it all being forgotten with time, a settlement on time would have saved this girl lifelong stigma after all the recent press

[Almer]

52 minutes ago, Pumpuynarak said:

Send her and her parents to prison more like.

C'mon you know how it works, the girl gets her licence back shortly and the parents will buy her a nice new car for all the pain she has been through recently .

[essox essox]

2 hours ago, ChipButty said:

Maybe they thought they could get away without paying

very true......

[Galactus]

after 9 years. why this wait?? glad court ordered them to pay the interest too.

Extra kudos for the court to keep the owner of the car as equally liable for this too.

 

and i wonder how the family found that 42 plus million baht??

will authorities check the source of that money? bc all i know father is or was a colonel!

and now she is 25, she can be a danger again for the society as she can drive a car now.

[LazySlipper]

3 hours ago, amykat said:

Like car insurance, a well educated Thai man said to me once, why would I pay for that if I don’t know for SURE if I will need it???

 

Where was this well educated guy educated? I guess it was prolly at the Bamboo International University for chumps...

 

Insurance saved my balls more than once. Never have enough, but the problem is the regulations on Thailand. An 8-9 year old car can't be insured first class... even if I have the money to pay for it.

[scorecard]

4 hours ago, HampiK said:

What you think will happen with spoiled person! NOTHING

Wonder if she has a boyfriend or will ever have a bf?

 

If she was introduced by her bf to other folks who realized who she was, just wondering what reactions there would be? One guess is that it depends on the status level of the girls family, If very high (which I understand it is) then perhaps the very high status level cancels all else? 

 

A bit like the highly corrupt officials who demand that their staff grovel and give very high wais when they meet the boss.

 

This all happened a few days after the paymasters first ministers took up their positions, many were well know to be massively corrupt and dangerous thugs. A group of these miscreants complained that when they were walking in the corridors of gov't buildings the staff were not all falling down to the full prostrating (lie on the floor) position with wais way above their heads. 

[Pumpuynarak]

4 hours ago, Almer said:

C'mon you know how it works, the girl gets her licence back shortly and the parents will buy her a nice new car for all the pain she has been through recently .

Unfortunately true.