Drunk Minivan Driver narrowly avoids tourists in Pattaya Beach Road crash



PATTAYA: -- Police arrested a 25-year-old Minivan driver in the early hours of Tuesday, after he crashed his van into food and drink vending stalls on Pattaya Beach Road, close to the entrance of Walking Street, narrowly avoiding tourists.

Khun Saksorn was arrested and later charged with drunk-driving and reckless driving causing injury. Also inside the van was Khun Gitisak aged 65, the owner of the vehicle and a third man named as Khun Geng. All 3 men were described as being drunk and open bottles of whisky and soda bottles were found along with 3 glasses of whisky & soda.

The van was seen to be driving at a high rate of speed and erratically before it struck a coffee vending stall, operated by Khun Naesai aged 51, and then a food stall selling squid. The vehicle then struck a concrete barrier which is designed to protect pedestrians from the oncoming traffic.

Full story: http://pattayaone.net/pattaya-news/221857/drunk-minivan-driver-narrowly-avoids-tourists-pattaya-beach-road-crash/


-- Pattaya One 2016-03-02

Good to see the barrier did its job and prevent serious injury or death.

The driver should be banned for life from driving public transport

Wow.

Talk about one for the road.

Normal behaviour for Thailand.

Sounds like they were to pissed to do a runner.

Good to see the barrier did its job and prevent serious injury or death.

The driver should be banned for life from driving public transport

banned for life? what good is that when half of drivers on the roads drive with no licence anyway.

you should have said LOCKED UP.

These types of stories are as common as grass in Thailand.

When these idiotic mini-van drivers start to come up close to me doing 125-135 kilometers an hour, like a few feet from my rear end in the fast lane if I occasionally miss their swift approach ( I'm already doing a hundred to a hundred and ten ) I pull over and let them go, but I'm a farang.

I like my Thai brother-in law - he goes 90 km an hour and makes the idiots go around.

I don't condone doing that though - I pull over and lets the <deleted> go

Different styles and all..

Well the concrete barrier did it's job, I had previously regarded them as a nuisance when walking there.

When on earth is the construction work there going to be finished.

Good to see the barrier did its job and prevent serious injury or death.

The driver should be banned for life from driving public transport

They should be made to pay for the damage they caused as well

That's interesting. I didn't know that food stall sold squid.

Were the squid hurt?

500-1000 baht fine and then soon off on his merry way drinking and driving and doing business with a "public vehicle"

Edited March 2, 201610 yr by kingalfred

Speaking as a man who once upon a time like his drink too much..I immediately noticed how the occupants in the back of the van managed to hold unto the drinks in their glasses during all the commotion without letting the contents spill out.....first things first ....eh?

Seriously, glad no serious injuries to the people involved.

Edited March 2, 201610 yr by dotpoom

Thank god they took out one of the squid stalls.

YAWNING..............is it all for today of car crashes? No fatal deaths today? How boring...Where are the average 100 who daily died in accidents in LOS? (one of the safest countries in the world...)

My wifes cousin recently died at the hands of one of these lunatics when he swerved onto the wrong side of the road and hit him head on.

The video looked like he was drunk or totally out of it on something. Behaving like this and causing injury as a professional driver should be treated as a criminal offence with jail time for any injury or death and a lifetime ban from driving.

Oh TIT!! W T F am I thinking!! 5555 No tea money in that for the Mafia!!..........Mai pen rai.

Edited March 2, 201610 yr by dunks

Just one driver out of hundreds - They should all be locked up and the key thrown away; they are only below the speed limit when they are stopping.

Some of you may remember a Minivan crashing on the Bangna-Trat Expressway, about 3/4 years ago. As far as I can remember, at least 6/7 passengers were burnt to death when it caught fire as a result of that accident; it may have been 9 passengers. The Minivan was travelling from Chachoengsao to Bangna, a route that ran every hour during the day. Only 2 days before that accident, I was travelling on the same route, may have even been the same Minivan. Sitting in the centre seat behind the driver, I could see his speedo was reading 160 k/p/h, and the Minivan was wavering a bit; this was on Bangna-Trat Express way, more or less in the exact area of the accident. Since that day, I have not travelled on one of those Minivans, nor do I intend to in the future.

No doubt the owner of the vehicle will grease the sweaty palms... When he sobers up!

Wherever there is injustice, you will find us.

Wherever there is suffering, we'll be there.

Wherever liberty is threatened...you will find...

The Three Amigos!

Well the concrete barrier did it's job, I had previously regarded them as a nuisance when walking there.

When on earth is the construction work there going to be finished.

The nuisance is walking there at all. Thats quite an entrance to the premier tourist attraction in city looking for tourism. I have no idea what they have been doing there with

those construction trailers for the last year. When they are finally if ever moved it will expose a very degraded, caved in walkway and beach full of construction junk like the

large chunks of concrete with rusty iron bars sticking out. As can be seen at Soi 6 and the Dusit curve drainage projects.

drunk abusive resisting arrest maybe a few months in the monkey house might cool him down and why not his friends aiding and abetting his drinking while driving reckless endangerment ,

Clearly, the food stalls were to blame. A hazard to all road users.

These drivers need to be IN JAIL!!!!

Good to see the barrier did its job and prevent serious injury or death.

The driver should be banned for life from driving public transport

Good to see he took out a squid-selling stall. That stuff is vile.

These drivers need to be IN JAIL!!!!

Besides the minivans from hell. Dont forget the tour bus, meter taxi, motorbike and pickup drivers that have taken over/ruined Pattaya.

It is pure chance that no one was seriously injured or worse. Jail time is needed for people like these.

That's interesting. I didn't know that food stall sold squid.

It's dried, you must be new here or blind.