BANGKOK, Feb 17 (TNA) – The family of late Dr Waraluck Supawatjariyakul who was fatally hit by a policeman on his Ducati motorcycle sued the Royal Thai Police Office and the policeman for 72 million baht for her death.

 

Dr Anirut Supawatjariyakul and his wife Ratchanee filed the civil lawsuit at the Civil Court to demand the compensation from the Royal Thai Police Office and Pol L/Cpl Norawich Buadok, 21, who killed the female ophthalmologist of the Faculty of Medicine at Chulalongkorn University in the crash while she was using a pedestrian crossing in Bangkok on Jan 21.

 

Their lawyer, Nathapol Chinawong, said the demanded damage was based on assessment by the academics and institutions with relevant expertise that considered that the female doctor would earn at least 200 million baht, be able to take care of her family and contribute to the nation if she continued to work until her retirement age.

 

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Good luck with that.

Who in all conscience can put an actual price on a person's life/worth?

 

Also is it really worth it in mental health issues etc to pursue a case against the RTP in Thailand?

 

I am sorry for what happened but my advice is to grieve in private and continue to love your lost one without all the unnecessary added anguish!

 

R.I.P.

Yes perhaps but some might call it justice.

Be lucky to get 3 million.  Probably more like one million.

This is not the U.S. where if you stub your toe on the sidewalk, the city pays you 100's of thousand dollars.

14 minutes ago, DezLez said:

Who in all conscience can put an actual price on a person's life/worth?

 

Also is it really worth it in mental health issues etc to pursue a case against the RTP in Thailand?

 

I am sorry for what happened but my advice is to grieve in private and continue to love your lost one without all the unnecessary added anguish!

 

R.I.P.

I doubt very much that an educated Thai family needs advice for a foreigner on matters of Thai law.

 

17 hours ago, DezLez said:

Who in all conscience can put an actual price on a person's life/worth?

 

Also is it really worth it in mental health issues etc to pursue a case against the RTP in Thailand?

 

I am sorry for what happened but my advice is to grieve in private and continue to love your lost one without all the unnecessary added anguish!

 

R.I.P.

 Of course there is a clear assessed financial earnings lost value to any given life.

then multiply that amount by five or ten times as Punitive Damages for a ended quality non-financial life. Appears PD concept is not within Thai law.

5 minutes ago, Chris.B said:

I doubt very much that an educated Thai family needs advice for a foreigner on matters of Thai law.

 

I wrote about the mental health issues and said that it would (obviously) be against the RTP in Thailand (as it happened in Thailand)!

It does not take a legal genius to work out that taking a  case to court against the (Military?) Police of a country is very difficult and has emotional/mental stress issues which I do not believe outweigh any monetary value that may or may not be gained!

 

16 hours ago, TropicalGuy said:

 Of course there is a clear assessed financial earnings lost value to any given life.

then multiply that amount by five or ten times as Punitive Damages for a ended quality non-financial life. Appears PD concept is not within Thai law.

Sounds like an intro to "LA Law" or other US so called "Law" programmes.

If the policeman was on duty, I believe this case will be successful, although there may be some negotiation on the amount. This isn't a run of the mill poor family, they seem have the financial ability to employ a decent lawyer.

 

The sad part is that as the police are a public body - ultimately the Thai public will be the ones who pay. even if that's just an increase in the police's insurance premium.

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Can someone explain how this works, if the court say the ex police has to pay let's say 20  million, where ge will get the money anyway?

As this doctor studied and worked previously in the US, one might not be wrong to assume that her parents are not pennyless nobodies. As such, cynical as it sounds, the chances of success against a junior policeman are not small.

 

If this would be so if, the victim were not from such a background, is anybodies guess.

 

However, these parents getting justice for their daughter is a good thing, the first step towards getting public attention that there are actual travel regulations in existence in this country, all too often completely ignored.

1 hour ago, DezLez said:

Who in all conscience can put an actual price on a person's life/worth?

 

Also is it really worth it in mental health issues etc to pursue a case against the RTP in Thailand?

 

I am sorry for what happened but my advice is to grieve in private and continue to love your lost one without all the unnecessary added anguish!

 

R.I.P.

T.IT.

28 minutes ago, KhaoYai said:

If the policeman was on duty, I believe this case will be successful, although there may be some negotiation on the amount. This isn't a run of the mill poor family, they seem have the financial ability to employ a decent lawyer.

 

The sad part is that as the police are a public body - ultimately the Thai public will be the ones who pay. even if that's just an increase in the police's insurance premium.

Fair point about being on duty and expect the records to be changed as necessary to show he wasn’t .

family wealth reference a cheap shot. Do you think they would not give up every baht to have their wonderful much loved lady back in their arms ? 
public bodies are publically funded & so accountable in every way. When they cause harm , compensation is due, yes from public taxes. 

29 minutes ago, kralledr said:

Can someone explain how this works, if the court say the ex police has to pay let's say 20  million, where ge will get the money anyway?

Public funds if he was on duty 

I feel sorry for the family, and sad at the death of their young daughter.

That being said ...

I learned to cross the street at about 5 years of age. Look both ways, and if someone is coming, stop.

This was a long time before zebra crossings.

Moral of this story - Keep your head up and pay attention. I see so many staring at screens, walking with headphones on, oblivious to the world around them.

Death is a heartbeat away.

9 minutes ago, seedy said:

I feel sorry for the family, and sad at the death of their young daughter.

That being said ...

I learned to cross the street at about 5 years of age. Look both ways, and if someone is coming, stop.

This was a long time before zebra crossings.

Moral of this story - Keep your head up and pay attention. I see so many staring at screens, walking with headphones on, oblivious to the world around them.

Death is a heartbeat away.

 

There is no reason at all to think this poor woman was in any way inattentive. The driver came roaring down at extreme speed.(Clocked at over 100 KPH). He was likley nowhere in sight when she started across.

 

I am very careful  crossing streets here. But that did not stop me from being slammed in to by a motorcycle despite there being absolutely no traffic coming when I started across, in a zebra crossing, in broad daylight (the nearest vehicles were at a full stop at a red light a full 200 meters away - and they all saw me. Nonetheless when their light changed they raced at breakneck speed down the road and slammed right into me just as I was reaching the meridian.

 

With this type of driving, it can happen to anyone no matter how carefully they cross the road.

This is standard procedure over much of the world I believe. I know a actuarial specialist in the states who spends a lot of his time in court testifying in such cases. I hope there will be follow up on this forum and other places and we will all learn something from how it eventually turns out. Good or bad.

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16 hours ago, TropicalGuy said:

 

 

I have tried to introduce the mental health aspects that are potentially dangerous to the wellbeing of ALL people from ALL countries who pursue this glorified  "It is someone's fault therefore someone must pay cash mentality".

I am suggesting there is a bigger price to pay from/to everyone involved in getting tied up in litigation! And for what overall benefit to who?

 

 

The family of the cop who got killed by Red Bull "Boss" should have had this lawyer! 

31 minutes ago, seedy said:

I feel sorry for the family, and sad at the death of their young daughter.

That being said ...

I learned to cross the street at about 5 years of age. Look both ways, and if someone is coming, stop.

This was a long time before zebra crossings.

Moral of this story - Keep your head up and pay attention. I see so many staring at screens, walking with headphones on, oblivious to the world around them.

Death is a heartbeat away.

I would agree, the rider (pun) here is the motorbikes that whip down between rows of cars and still go through on red. Sukhumvit soi 4 lights are a case in point........"keep your head up" (Argent?. Haven't heard that played for years)

Re the OP report:

 

Bravo!!!  Can't undo what's already been done. But hope they make them pay for it after the fact.

 

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31 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

I can see the whole family ending up in jail following a drugs raid.

They are certainly being extremely brave in taking on the State here…. but they & case ate far too high profile for any such brazen stupid police counter actions.  

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3 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

with relevant expertise that considered that the female doctor would earn at least 200 million baht,

Oh come on, A Thai doctor earning £4.5 million in the remainder of his life ? Sound more ego than reality

2 hours ago, seedy said:

I feel sorry for the family, and sad at the death of their young daughter.

That being said ...

I learned to cross the street at about 5 years of age. Look both ways, and if someone is coming, stop.

This was a long time before zebra crossings.

Moral of this story - Keep your head up and pay attention. I see so many staring at screens, walking with headphones on, oblivious to the world around them.

Death is a heartbeat away.

I suggest you search out for the video of the incident. And then apologise.

3 hours ago, DezLez said:

Who in all conscience can put an actual price on a person's life/worth?

 

Also is it really worth it in mental health issues etc to pursue a case against the RTP in Thailand?

 

I am sorry for what happened but my advice is to grieve in private and continue to love your lost one without all the unnecessary added anguish!

 

R.I.P.

Sure, but if making the RTP and associated agencies highly embarrassed and hitting them big financially and creating a precedent for similar actions in the future and putting pressure on them to do their job is achieved  by this action then it's worth it IMHO.