British Driver Injured In Collision With Motorcycl

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British driver injured in collision with motorcycle

Motorcycle driver flees the scene

PATTAYA: -- Sattahip police on April 21 received a report of an accident involving a motorcycle and a foreigner’s car at Samakkee hill on Sukhumvit Third Road, at the U-turn to Bangsaray Beach.

Officers went to the scene with a security officer from the Rotchana Thammasathan Sattahip foundation, and found a British man, Ian Richard Mambow, aged 50, who was having trouble breathing.

His green Peugeot 406 was damaged and had come to rest in the middle drainage ditch of the road, and a green Suzuki motorcycle was also in the middle of the road. The motorcycle belonged to Santi Raksawong, aged 35, from Sattahip, who had fled the scene.

Mambow had been returning to Pattaya from Rayong. The motorcycle had cut off up at the U-turn, and he had been unable to stop in time. The car hit the motorcycle, then a palm tree in the middle drainage ditch.

Mambow was transferred to Bangkok Pattaya Hospital for treatment.

--Pattaya Mail 2005-04-29