Australian Woman Runs Over and Kills Street Painter in Pattaya

[snoop1130]

 

An Australian driver accidentally ran over a street painter on the job and killed him in Pattaya, yesterday, January 11th.

 

The foreign driver was terrified and shocked after being notified that she had fatally run over the victim, Mr. Prasit Kabphet, who was painting the road at the entrance of Wongamat Residence Condominium in Soi 16 in the Naklua subdistrict, Banglamung district, Chonburi.

 

CCTV footage discovered that the 62-year-old Australian, Mrs. Michelle Ann Eddy, seemed to be totally unaware of Mr. Prasit when she turned her vehicle around the corner to enter her condo’s front gate where the 45-year-old victim was working painting. The driver then ran over the victim and kept driving to her parking lot where someone rushed to tell her that she had run over a man.

 

CCTV also found that Mr. Prasit was working with his back toward the main road and seemed to not realize about the Australian woman’s car emerging from the corner and approaching him from behind.

 

Full Story: https://thepattayanews.com/2023/01/12/australian-woman-runs-over-and-kills-street-painter-in-pattaya/

 

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[Dmaxdan]

How could she not have known that she'd just run somebody over?

Also, in a perfect world the painter should have had someone watching his back whilst he worked.

 

[OneMoreFarang]

Lock her up!

Maybe she didn't see the painter. But driving a car over someone and not noticing it is basically impossible unless she was drunk, drugged, or something like that.

Any normal driver who drives against a big "obstacle" would brake right away. She didn't. Guilty. 

 

And yes, there should have been a sign or someone looking after the painter, but that doesn't change anything from my comment above.

Edited January 12, 2023 by OneMoreFarang

[billd766]

17 minutes ago, Dmaxdan said:

How could she not have known that she'd just run somebody over?

Also, in a perfect world the painter should have had someone watching his back whilst he worked.

 

Plus cones to cordon off the painted area.

[edwardandtubs]

7 minutes ago, billd766 said:

Plus cones to cordon off the painted area.

Yes, clearly the main issue here is the lack of proper safety procedures to protect the worker.

[BananaStrong]

38 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

The driver then ran over the victim and kept driving to her parking lot

I've never run over a PERSON before, but I have a feeling you would have a feeling it wasn't a curb (Kerb to you nutters), squirrel, snake, or box....

 

IF the parking spot was like 5 meters away, maybe, just maybe, no hit-and-run.  any farther, throw the book at her!!!!!!!!  

[Stocky]

38 minutes ago, Dmaxdan said:

Also, in a perfect world the painter should have had someone watching his back whilst he worked.

"The victim’s colleague, Mr. Somphan Sangsuwan, 32, told The Pattaya News the victim was painting the road leading to the foreigner’s condo at 2:50 PM. Mr. Somphan went to the bathroom only to come back to see his friend crying in agony."

 

Seems the guy watching his back had gone to the bathroom.

[orchis]

hard to believe her 

[richard_smith237]

22 minutes ago, edwardandtubs said:

Yes, clearly the main issue here is the lack of proper safety procedures to protect the worker.

And a blind driver who clearly should never have been behind the wheel of a vehicle. 

Edited January 12, 2023 by richard_smith237

[richard_smith237]

A number of issues here...

 

The painters lack of regard for his own safety.

The ‘watchman’ lack of regard for the safety of someone else. 

A driver who should not have been driving. 

 

 

Not to remove any blame from the driver, she is clearly 100% at fault here for hitting a stationary ‘pedestrian’ - I can’t think of any mitigating circumstance.... But, many people in this world are completely unaware of the risks they places themselves in - it is a daily occurrence here were I see someone ‘dangerously in the line of fire’.... 

 

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I recall driving late at night, turning into a condo building, the entrance was very poorly lit. I saw a shadow and stopped, not sure what it was. It was a guy sat on the floor in the middle of the entrance. Very odd behaviour, but I so very nearly hit him and my headlights didn't catching him early one because I was turning. I actually consider myself lucky I didn't hit him, but also consider if I couldn’t see him, I should never have been driving. 

 

but... this incident was in broad daylight - The lady needs to have her eyes tested (thats a serious rather than a facetious comment). 

[Andrew Dwyer]

Watching the CCTV shown on the news it appears she was distracted by the raising barrier and didn’t see the guy crouched almost underneath it.

But , yes, seems hard to believe she wasn’t aware that she was driving over a body.

 

Quite harrowing to see the guy writhing in agony from under her car until he died shortly after.

[OneMoreFarang]

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

The foreign driver was terrified and shocked after being notified that she had fatally run over the victim,

So that's it?

Was she arrested?

Was she charged with killing a human?

She shouldn't be allowed out on the street and be a risk to everybody else. 

[Liverpool Lou]

And not one person calling for her to blood/alcohol tested after she grotesquely killed a man, whose presence was glaringly obvious to anyone paying attention, and left the scene pretending that she felt nothing after the contact.  Lucky she isn't a Thai having to suffer the usual Thaivisa venom.   Amazing.

Edited January 12, 2023 by Liverpool Lou

[Liverpool Lou]

I wonder if the older foreign woman shown taking a photo of the covered body by the barrier is the killer?

[Liverpool Lou]

26 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Was she arrested?

Was she charged with killing a human?

From the OP...

"Mrs. Eddy was taken to the Pattaya police station where she admitted to causing the accident. She said she did not see the victim working on the road and was shocked when she realized that the man had died. She is proceeding with legal procedures and described as cooperative, exact charges being processed were not released by Pattaya police".

[Harsh Jones]

4 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Lock her up!

Maybe she didn't see the painter. But driving a car over someone and not noticing it is basically impossible unless she was drunk, drugged, or something like that.

Any normal driver who drives against a big "obstacle" would brake right away. She didn't. Guilty. 

 

And yes, there should have been a sign or someone looking after the painter, but that doesn't change anything from my comment above.

Some female drivers have a strange sense behind the wheel. The more anomalous something seems, the more likely they are to hit the gas. That's where all the strange car fails on Youtube come from. She probably felt something and did just that.

 

Terrible. Feel bad for both of them.  

[still kicking]

2 minutes ago, Harsh Jones said:

Some female drivers have a strange sense behind the wheel. The more anomalous something seems, the more likely they are to hit the gas. That's where all the strange car fails on Youtube come from. She probably felt something and did just that.

 

Terrible. Feel bad for both of them.  

Any civilised country there would not be someone on the road. without warning signs or even warning lights I don't blame the women 

[FritsSikkink]

4 hours ago, edwardandtubs said:

Yes, clearly the main issue here is the lack of proper safety procedures to protect the worker.

No, the main issue is somebody driving a car and not looking at the road.

[FritsSikkink]

5 minutes ago, still kicking said:

Any civilised country there would not be someone on the road. without warning signs or even warning lights I don't blame the women 

You need to watch where you are driving. Not blaming? <deleted>

[OneMoreFarang]

7 minutes ago, still kicking said:

Any civilised country there would not be someone on the road. without warning signs or even warning lights I don't blame the women 

Really?

There are at least three issues here.

a) she collided with a human on the street

b) she drove over him, maybe with two wheels one after the other

c) she didn't stop after that

 

IMHO b) and c) are the real bad parts. It is impossible to drive over "something that big" and not notice it.

And then it is criminal to not at least look what just happened.

Guilty!

[JoseThailand]

3 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

From the OP...

"Mrs. Eddy was taken to the Pattaya police station where she admitted to causing the accident. She said she did not see the victim working on the road and was shocked when she realized that the man had died. She is proceeding with legal procedures and described as cooperative, exact charges being processed were not released by Pattaya police".

She shouldn't have admitted to anything. She should think about her defense and get a lawyer first. There are plenty of factors that contributed to this incident.

[richard_smith237]

13 minutes ago, JoseThailand said:

She shouldn't have admitted to anything. She should think about her defense and get a lawyer first. There are plenty of factors that contributed to this incident.

The primary one being not looking where she was going !!!

 

There are no mitigating circumstances... Not expecting someone to be in an entrance way is not a sufficient excuse.... its not as if the deceased was sat down in the middle of the motorway.

[richard_smith237]

52 minutes ago, still kicking said:

Any civilised country there would not be someone on the road. without warning signs or even warning lights I don't blame the women 

Not quite...  in ‘any civilised country there should not be someone in the road’.....   this was not a main road, it was an entrance way where pedestrians can be expected....  it could have been a child walking across....  

 

I do agree that there should have been warning signs etc... for the safety of the worker - so there was a massive failing at that aspect, but, this is also Thailand, safety is a low priority in the minds of many.

 

The lady still managed to drive into and over a person in broad daylight - there really is no one else to blame but her....   the deceased contributed to his own demise by placing himself ‘in the line of fire’, however, the lady is still fully at fault for not seeing him and stopping. 

[spidermike007]

You cannot run over a person without knowing it. Even if you just knocked him down, you would have to be sleeping to be unaware of it. So, basically she fled from the scene of a murder she committed. Lock her up for her remaining years. 

 

And secondly, nobody should ever be doing this kind of work without cones around them, or an assistant. Safety is such a neglected part of life here. Poor guy. Mowed down by a cretin. 

Edited January 12, 2023 by spidermike007

[edwardandtubs]

1 hour ago, FritsSikkink said:

No, the main issue is somebody driving a car and not looking at the road.

The world is full of idiots doing exactly that, which is why it is inexcusable there weren't normal procedures in place to protect the worker.

[JoseThailand]

4 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

The primary one being not looking where she was going !!!

 

There are no mitigating circumstances... Not expecting someone to be in an entrance way is not a sufficient excuse.... its not as if the deceased was sat down in the middle of the motorway.

Why are you doing the prosecutor's job? The are a lot of circumstances. She must get a lawyer to defend herself in the best possible way. Of course I feel sorry for the deceased person and his family, but making the poor woman a scapegoat will not serve anything.

[Enoon]

 

 

9 hours ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

Watching the CCTV shown on the news it appears she was distracted by the raising barrier and didn’t see the guy crouched almost underneath it.

But , yes, seems hard to believe she wasn’t aware that she was driving over a body.

 

Quite harrowing to see the guy writhing in agony from under her car until he died shortly after.

Barrier should have been de-activated, in down position, while work was going on..........I see a barrier raise in front of me it means "come on".

 

I am also not sure that I would have seen somebody on the ground who was, perhaps, obscured as a result of that hedge and because of my view being across the longest dimension (diagonal, driver to nearside headlamp) in the brief observational time I would have rounding that sharp corner on approach.

 

A "straight in" approach, from 10 plus metres away would, probably, have enabled someone to easily see him.

 

I would need to have a re-run, while in the driving seat and with a suitably sized/shaped object on the ground, in order to pass judgement.

 

Edited January 12, 2023 by Enoon

[jacko45k]

58 minutes ago, Enoon said:

I am also not sure that I would have seen somebody on the ground who was, perhaps, obscured as a result of that hedge and because of my view being across the longest dimension (diagonal, driver to nearside headlamp) in the brief observational time I would have rounding that sharp corner on approach.

I drive a Hi-Rider truck and I expect after coming round a bend something low on the ground, very close, would not be seen, Although one has to be ready for anything, kids, dogs, people! Sad reflection of how safety measures are not taken seriously here. 

[gerritkaew]

I see the clip also, and I can’t believe she not see him. Iff you a small person okay but she is a big lady. She must have seen the road in front of her !! And the painter,, he not hear a car coming ?  It’s not an electric car, unbelievably to see. 
only in Thailand..

 

rip mister. 

[chang1]

1 hour ago, Enoon said:

 

 

Barrier should have been de-activated, in down position, while work was going on..........I see a barrier raise in front of me it means "come on".

 

I am also not sure that I would have seen somebody on the ground who was, perhaps, obscured as a result of that hedge and because of my view being across the longest dimension (diagonal, driver to nearside headlamp) in the brief observational time I would have rounding that sharp corner on approach.

 

A "straight in" approach, from 10 plus metres away would, probably, have enabled someone to easily see him.

 

I would need to have a re-run, while in the driving seat and with a suitably sized/shaped object on the ground, in order to pass judgement.

 

Sensible comments.