Pattaya: Smash at "Dolphin Roundabout" - beer and knife found in car after driver deserts friends and flees scene!

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Pattaya: Smash at "Dolphin Roundabout" - beer and knife found in car after driver deserts friends and flees scene!

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

Pattaya's police were called after a Honda Civic car failed to negotiate a bend at the Dolphin Roundabout at 4.30 this morning. 

 

The car smashed into plant pots scattering them all about. 

 

At the scene were Wichaicharoen, 20, and Sorayuth, 21. One of them claimed to be driving, a statement police found hard to believe.

 

Three opened beer bottles and a 10 cm knife were found inside the car. 

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

The claim about who was driving was further brought into doubt given the evidence of Thepbareem, 30, who witnessed the driver clamber out of the wrecked car via the passenger door and run off into the night. 

 

His two friends were helping police with inquiries at the police station and CCTV was being examined, reported 77kaoded. 

 

Source: 77kaoded

 

 

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[trainman34014]

The car didn't 'fail to negotiate the bend'.......the DRIVER did !

[JustAnotherHun]

To flee the scene must be a national sport in Thailand.

[Benmart]

Fortunately, no innocents were killed or injured. 

[BritManToo]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Three opened beer bottles and a 10 cm knife were found inside the car. 

Is that against the law?

[Moonlover]

22 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Three opened beer bottles and a 10 cm knife were found inside the car. 

 

22 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Is that against the law?

Certainly the beer. Even passengers are not allowed to drink in a moving vehicle, although it is widely practiced.

 

Not sure about the knife, but it's a reasonable guess that it's not there as a toothpick!

Edited March 11, 2020 by Moonlover

[KhunBENQ]

19 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Is that against the law?

Yes. Member Moonlover was faster.

[BritManToo]

3 minutes ago, Moonlover said:

 

Certainly beer. Even passengers are not allowed to drink in a moving vehicle, although it is widely practiced.

 

Not sure about the knife, but it's a reasonable guess that it's not there as a toothpick!

So you consider an open beer bottle as irrefutable evidence the driver was drinking?

 

Edited March 11, 2020 by BritManToo

[KhunBENQ]

Just now, BritManToo said:

as irrefutable evidence the driver was drinking?

You haven't got it.

No one is allowed to drink alcohol in the car.

Even passengers.

[Moonlover]

8 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

4 minutes ago, Moonlover said:

 

Certainly beer. Even passengers are not allowed to drink in a moving vehicle, although it is widely practiced.

 

8 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

So you consider an open beer bottle as irrefutable evidence the driver was drinking?

 

Study the picture. There is beer in the bottle so there's a reasonable assumption that the passenger was drinking. I said nothing about the driver.

 

However 3 persons in the car, 3 bottle of beer, driver flees the scene? Draw your own conclusion.

 

Edited March 11, 2020 by Moonlover

[BritManToo]

2 minutes ago, Moonlover said:

Study the picture. There is beer in the bottle so there's a reasonable assumption that the passenger was drinking. I said nothing about the driver. However fleeing the scene? Draw your own conclusion.

Fleeing the scene is entirely sensible as the fine for fleeing is much smaller than failing a breath test.

(which is why all the Thais do it)

 

The idea of facing punishment for wrong doing is an almost entirely Christian concept.

Edited March 11, 2020 by BritManToo

[Almer]

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

So you consider an open beer bottle as irrefutable evidence the driver was drinking?

 

No but doing a runner is

 

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

So you consider an open beer bottle as irrefutable evidence the driver was drinking?

 

 

[hobobo]

2 hours ago, BritManToo said:

So you consider an open beer bottle as irrefutable evidence the driver was drinking?

 

No, but it is  against the law. 

[dennnis]

26 minutes ago, hobobo said:

No, but it is  against the law. 

In Thailand or USA?

[billd766]

3 hours ago, BritManToo said:

So you consider an open beer bottle as irrefutable evidence the driver was drinking?

 

At 4:30 am? I would certainly put money on it especially as the "driver" did a runner.

 

A 4 inch knife in a vehicle means little. In my pickup at various time I have carried machetes, hooked blades on a pole for cutting branches, an axe or 2 a petrol chain saw, 1 or 2 weed whackers, gasoline in plastic bottles, rope, string and other odds and ends.

 

I have had bottles of whiskey, crates of beer, soda, ice etc.

 

Most things that you would find in rural pickups.

 

Not at 4:30 am though as I am usually in bed asleep.

[billd766]

31 minutes ago, hobobo said:

No, but it is  against the law. 

But like most laws in Thailand, it is generally ignored.

[mikebell]

19 hours ago, JustAnotherHun said:

To flee the scene must be a national sport in Thailand.

Lie-land.

De-ny-land.

Pie-in-the-sky-land.

[ivor bigun]

On 3/11/2020 at 2:27 PM, JustAnotherHun said:

To flee the scene must be a national sport in Thailand.

Just like the b stard driving a motorbike and sidecar did last week to me .????

[Just Weird]

On 3/11/2020 at 3:24 PM, KhunBENQ said:

On 3/11/2020 at 3:22 PM, BritManToo said:

as irrefutable evidence the driver was drinking?

You haven't got it.

No one is allowed to drink alcohol in the car.

Even passengers.

The point is that it is illegal to have opened alcohol bottles in a vehicle, regardless of whether they were being consumed, or by whom.

[Just Weird]

On 3/11/2020 at 3:30 PM, BritManToo said:

Fleeing the scene is entirely sensible as the fine for fleeing is much smaller than failing a breath test.

(which is why all the Thais do it)

Your comment would make sense if it wasn't for the fact that all Thais don't do that.

[Just Weird]

On 3/11/2020 at 3:30 PM, BritManToo said:

The idea of facing punishment for wrong doing is an almost entirely Christian concept.

Yeah, right, an almost exclusive "Christian" act.  Jesus...(so to speak)

[Just Weird]

On 3/11/2020 at 6:44 PM, dennnis said:

On 3/11/2020 at 6:18 PM, hobobo said:

No, but it is  against the law. 

In Thailand or USA?

It is in Thailand; it's irrelevant if it is or isn't in the US.

[essox essox]

On 3/11/2020 at 2:27 PM, JustAnotherHun said:

To flee the scene must be a national sport in Thailand.

IF IT was in the Olympics....Thais would WIN gold medals every 4 years !!