Video: Shooting in Phetchaburi results in death - road rage over "cutting in front" incident

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77kaoded Thai Caption: Cap: Eight shots fired!!! Cutting in front road rage incident

 

77kaoded reported from Phetchaburi in south/central Thailand where an arrest was made within an hour after a road rage shooting incident.

 

It was all over someing as minor as an incident in which one vehicle cut in front of another. The gun was found at the house of a friend of the shooter.

 

Ban Lat police were informed of a gunshot injury on the Wang Bua to Lat Pho Road at 8pm last night.

 

At the scene they found a four door white Isuzu pick-up that had hit a lamppost.

 

They found eight bullet holes in the driver's side window.

 

The driver was Natthawut Sawangjai or "Nat" aged 28, a local man.

 

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He had 9mm gunshot wounds in the abdomen, shoulder and arm but died later. 

 

100 meters away police found 8 9mm casings and an abandoned, damaged vehicle with sidecar outside a barbers.

 

One of the people in the pick-up said they were all relatives and the wife of the deceased, five in total.

 

There was an argument with the driver of a red Isuzu after a close shave in which one of the vehicles cut in front of the other. Apologies were offered.

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

But shortly thereafter the red Isuzu caught up, overtook and cut in front causing the other vehicle to stop.

 

The driver got out and fired into the driver of the white pick-up.

 

It rolled away followed by the shooter, who, having made sure of his efforts got back in his own vehicle and raced off. 

 

Police found out that the shooter was Banthit "Lek" Phosiri, 61, another local man who was soon arrested at his house.

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

He appeared drunk. 

 

Police found the 9mm weapon that was used stashed at the home of a friend nearby. 

 

Lek was taken away to the police station. 

 

The media published a ten minute video of the aftermath. 

 

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[kotsak]

That's what happens when you give guns and cars to children..

 

[ikke1959]

teach people how to drive a car, and check their mental health instead of their physical health.... Some people drive like crazy, cut you off, brake in front of you with any reason, switching lanes without lokking and so on and so on..... If you respond on their behavior they get mad and see what happens.. Not the first time and not th last time this will be.. Almost daily news.. Rip to the deceased and the man who did it??? make sure he never can drive anything again

[vandeventer]

1 hour ago, ikke1959 said:

teach people how to drive a car, and check their mental health instead of their physical health.... Some people drive like crazy, cut you off, brake in front of you with any reason, switching lanes without lokking and so on and so on..... If you respond on their behavior they get mad and see what happens.. Not the first time and not th last time this will be.. Almost daily news.. Rip to the deceased and the man who did it??? make sure he never can drive anything again

Some people just go nuts when driving. I knew a guy a long time ago that hated being passed by another car. He would chase after them and pull them over and smack them around until they said sorry for passing him. I wonder where he is at now?

[2baht]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Banthit "Lek" Phosiri

FTM Syndrome.....................Fragile Thai Male!

[Asquith Production]

This guy should receive an all life sentence and not reduced for pleading guilty. The fact he may be drunk is not mitigation for what he did. Drivers here have little control over there cars,, guns and more so there temper

[Aussieroaming]

Hang him

[Bim Smith]

Now if he was smoking the weed instead of drinking it wouldn't have happened. Because it's impossible to fight while high. In fact make it mandatory. What a happy world that would be. Right I'm off to buy some more Pizza Hut shares 

[PEE TEE]

Class A drug Alcohol to blame and a crazy drunk scumbag 

[PEE TEE]

1 minute ago, Bim Smith said:

Now if he was smoking the weed instead of drinking it wouldn't have happened. Because it's impossible to fight while high. In fact make it mandatory. What a happy world that would be. Right I'm off to buy some more Pizza Hut shares 

make MDMA legal crime rate would drop drastically 

[mikeymike100]

Whats worse than a drunk driver, a drunk driver with a loaded gun?

 

[mrfill]

Where does the 'abandoned, damaged vehicle with sidecar' fit in the story?

[Road Warrior]

it is wonder there're not  more road rage incidents the way thais drive 

[Liverpool Lou]

2 hours ago, vandeventer said:

Some people just go nuts when driving. I knew a guy a long time ago that hated being passed by another car. He would chase after them and pull them over and smack them around until they said sorry for passing him. I wonder where he is at now?

Reading this.

[Liverpool Lou]

2 hours ago, 2baht said:

FTM Syndrome.....................Fragile Thai Male!

You'd think that road rage never happened anywhere else.  FUS, FUK, FEU, FAUS, FEE Male syndrome.

[Liverpool Lou]

1 hour ago, Asquith Production said:

Drivers here have little control over there cars,, guns and more so there temper

Equally applicable to almost every other countries' drivers. 

[Reigntax]

4 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

teach people how to drive a car, and check their mental health instead of their physical health.... Some people drive like crazy, cut you off, brake in front of you with any reason, switching lanes without lokking and so on and so on..... If you respond on their behavior they get mad and see what happens.. Not the first time and not th last time this will be.. Almost daily news.. Rip to the deceased and the man who did it??? make sure he never can drive anything again

But still hardly justification to kill someone.

[Reigntax]

7 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

You'd think that road rage never happened anywhere else.  FUS, FUK, FEU, FAUS, FEE Male syndrome.

You seem to know a lot of fragile people from all nationalities!!

[worgeordie]

The red rage used to come down on me when some @rsehole driver

tried to kill me through their dangerous  driving ,now I am a lot older ,have calmed

down , and  you just don't know what weapon they are carrying

in their vehicle ,and are willing to use..I would like to die in bed , not on side

of the road. 

regards worgeordie

[vandeventer]

33 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Reading this.

No, the guy was Mexican and worked on the AFB where I was stationed.

[2baht]

1 hour ago, Liverpool Lou said:

You'd think that road rage never happened anywhere else.  FUS, FUK, FEU, FAUS, FEE Male syndrome.

Thai story, Thai forum!

[wombat]

RIP bloke.

[2009]

1 hour ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Equally applicable to almost every other countries' drivers. 

Equally?? To almost every other country??

 

You are aware that Thailand has more deaths on the roads than most other countries and also more shootings than many other countries, right?

 

This is fact, not opinion.

[aussienam]

Freely available firearms and road rage terrible combination.  Rinse and repeat worldwide.  Look at the USA.  This is not a Thai specific phenomena for all the Thai male bashers. There are nutjob a**h#### everywhere in this world.  

[DUNROAMIN]

It appears guns are just like going to 7/11 for a coke, pop down to your local neighbour hood black market shop and select a firearm and a box of ammo. 

[The Hammer2021]

Wow! It's getting like America! But Kudos to the police at tracking the hothead down.

[teacherofwoe]

No one is asking if the gun was licensed and legally owned or obtained on the black market. Isn't this of primary importance? 

[tracker1]

Had a typical mental case motorist the other day we pulled out of a Soi turning left the closest vehicle approaching was a good 4 to 500 meters away but sped up to sit on our vehicle's <deleted> when I turned right later on whoever it was decided it was great to sit on the horn ! bravado to another idiot motorist !

[2baht]

1 hour ago, aussienam said:

Freely available firearms and road rage terrible combination.  Rinse and repeat worldwide.  Look at the USA.  This is not a Thai specific phenomena for all the Thai male bashers. There are nutjob a**h#### everywhere in this world.  

Tell us about it in the "everywhere in the world" forum! Oh, and hug a Thai for me when you're out and about!

 

 

[DaRoadrunner]

The Thai males often have a short fuse, it does not take much to get them fired up. Avoid.