Alcohol involved as Thai girl nearly decapitated in pick-up smash

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Alcohol involved as Thai girl nearly decapitated in pick-up smash


Image: Thairath

BANGKOK: -- A nineteen year old girl out with her friends in Kamphaengphet crashed her pick up into a tree almost decapitating herself around 3am today.

Pennapha Pathumpai, from Thanyaburi, Pathum Thani, was dead at the scene just off the bridge over the Ping river. Two of her friends were only slightly injured, Thairath reports.

A witness said that he had seen the Bangkok registered Isuzu pick up going fast without its lights on some twenty minutes earlier heading into town. It returned after a short while the witness was eating at a roadside restaurant and crashed into a tree after hitting the central barrier.

The dead driver had been hit by part of the door that had nearly severed her neck.

A half finished bottle of spirits was found in the cab.

Also injured were Ratanakorn Khosa, 25, and Kanyarat Thongphaeng, 19, both local to Kamphaengphet. They were not seriously hurt.

Source: Thairath


-- 2016-04-18

[jaltsc]

The only good thing about this event is that no innocent bystanders were killed or injured by her selfish and irresponsible actions.

[happy chappie]

Everytime I read of the road deaths I can only say that I feel that little bit safer now one more drunk inexperienced lunatic has been taken out.

[Hawk]

She had obviously been queuing for a while!

[SABloke]

Since she died mentioning the fact that she was ''almost decapitated'' seems irrelevant and a little bit in bad taste.

[kimamey]

Since she died mentioning the fact that she was ''almost decapitated'' seems irrelevant and a little bit in bad taste.

Decapitated sounds better in headlines. It's quite possible that she was nowhere near decapitated but she had a neck injury so "almost decapitated" could be used to spice it up. Fairly normal journalistic practice in many places so no surprise to see it here.

[Tomtomtom69]

That's not an Isuzu, it's a Hilux VIGO. You can tell from the air intake on the hood (bonnet). Isuzus don't have them. Strangely though, the new Hilux REVO doesn't seem to feature them on it's Thai models (or at least I haven't seen any) but most of the REVOs in Cambodia and Laos have them. Maybe it's because the Cambodians and Laotians all buy the top end models, whereas most Thais just buy the single or extra cabs?

Sorry to go off-topic considering this tragedy but first of all, this kind of crap happens all the time and I feel not an ounce of sorror for what happened. Because what happened was stupidity and darwinism solved this problem. Better enforcement of road rules and tough penalties might also help. But drink driving, not turning on her lights? Come on...you can't get any more stupid than that.

Rest in peace girl. Your body will soon be cremated in some Wat in Pathum Thani. And all the relatives will be wondering why, why why? Isn't fate such a bitch? When there really isn't anything to ponder about.

[Moonmoon]

she is only 19, how her parents leave her to drive at 3am in the morning?

[wirat69]

Everytime I read of the road deaths I can only say that I feel that little bit safer now one more drunk inexperienced lunatic has been taken out.

Regrettably, replacements are being born every minute.....

[seancbk]

Since she died mentioning the fact that she was ''almost decapitated'' seems irrelevant and a little bit in bad taste.

Decapitated sounds better in headlines. It's quite possible that she was nowhere near decapitated but she had a neck injury so "almost decapitated" could be used to spice it up. Fairly normal journalistic practice in many places so no surprise to see it here.

I read it as "she almost got decapitated, but didn't" as a sort of gosh that was close statement and that she had survived.

I wasn't expecting to read she'd died.

[IamNoone88]

Tragic.

[ratcatcher]

Tragic.

..................but avoidable.

[scorecard]

That's not an Isuzu, it's a Hilux VIGO. You can tell from the air intake on the hood (bonnet). Isuzus don't have them. Strangely though, the new Hilux REVO doesn't seem to feature them on it's Thai models (or at least I haven't seen any) but most of the REVOs in Cambodia and Laos have them. Maybe it's because the Cambodians and Laotians all buy the top end models, whereas most Thais just buy the single or extra cabs?

Sorry to go off-topic considering this tragedy but first of all, this kind of crap happens all the time and I feel not an ounce of sorror for what happened. Because what happened was stupidity and darwinism solved this problem. Better enforcement of road rules and tough penalties might also help. But drink driving, not turning on her lights? Come on...you can't get any more stupid than that.

Rest in peace girl. Your body will soon be cremated in some Wat in Pathum Thani. And all the relatives will be wondering why, why why? Isn't fate such a bitch? When there really isn't anything to ponder about.

Or they will be thinking this is just not possible because she had good karma alcohol therefore not relevant.

[Chicog]

No doubt her ilk will be complaining about the tree. If it had not been there, how could she have hit it?

[Prbkk]

Those things are death traps: they give a false sense of safety and security in much the same way many SUVs do. They sit higher, have a tank-like feel to them, are reasonably powerful. The are vehicles for experienced drivers , certainly not for boozed-up young women ( or men).

Usually it's the smaller vehicles involved in crashes with these behemoths that come off worse: but in this relative minor crash, driver probably unrestrained, they are shown to have sub-standard protection.

[Usual Suspect]

The town I live in gets swamped by Bangkok-Thais every weekend, & every Fri/Sat night there's a big increase in cars/SUVs driving around

town with no lights on..Is there a connection here..?

[laolover88]

she is only 19, how her parents leave her to drive at 3am in the morning?

Do you really think most Thai parents either know what their kids are doing from very young years or actually care? Thai kids/Thai people have to be FREE even if that means free to kill themselves and others.

[soalbundy]

Since she died mentioning the fact that she was ''almost decapitated'' seems irrelevant and a little bit in bad taste.

she couldn't even get that right

[StaffsShot]

Sad, totally unnecessary waste of a young life. Lucky her 2 friends weren't badly injured, but they'll have this crash on their minds for a long time to come. Unfortunately it will happen again tonight and tomorrow etc

[Artisi]

Everytime I read of the road deaths I can only say that I feel that little bit safer now one more drunk inexperienced lunatic has been taken out.

Regrettably, replacements are being born every minute.....

at a greater rate.

[Artisi]

Just one small point from the story, and the follow up by TV members, how do you know she had been drinking, any blood reports to hand as yet, or just the normal indepth accident analysis taken by the first BIB on the scene, must have been at least a 5 minute investigation. Luckily Thai accidents and the investigation of the cause are different to the rest of the world and can be completed immediately.

[pedro01]

she is only 19, how her parents leave her to drive at 3am in the morning?

Do you really think most Thai parents either know what their kids are doing from very young years or actually care? Thai kids/Thai people have to be FREE even if that means free to kill themselves and others.

When I was 19 I had my own car and was allowed to stay out after midnight too.

This is nothing unusual.

[roo860]

They should show on Thai television every night videos with graphic details of collisions etc, it might stick in some driver's minds.

[lensta]

They should show on Thai television every night videos with graphic details of collisions etc, it might stick in some driver's minds.

No it wouldn't.

[lensta]

Sad, totally unnecessary waste of a young life. Lucky her 2 friends weren't badly injured, but they'll have this crash on their minds for a long time to come. Unfortunately it will happen again tonight and tomorrow etc

My bet is it will all be a distant memory within a month.

[Prbkk]

They should show on Thai television every night videos with graphic details of collisions etc, it might stick in some driver's minds.

Agree with that but the focus should be the story of those who survived: but maimed, paralysed, brain damaged. The cost, financial and human, is enormous.

[Happy Grumpy]

No doubt her ilk will be complaining about the tree. If it had not been there, how could she have hit it?

In 2006 the local authorities passed that all the large trees separating the lanes on the Chiang Mai - Lamphun road were to be cut down because of this.

Kilometers of majestic old trees.

The locals simply got orange robes from monks and tied one around each tree. Not one worker dared to start cutting.

They still stand as majestic as ever 10 years later.

[tuanku]

she is only 19, how her parents leave her to drive at 3am in the morning?

Do you really think most Thai parents either know what their kids are doing from very young years or actually care? Thai kids/Thai people have to be FREE even if that means free to kill themselves and others.

I agree, and isn't it odd that they don't value other freedoms, like freedom of speech or freedom of assembly. I cannot figure it out.

There seems to be a lack of "social responsibility" where you don't do things not because of their possible outcomes for you, but because of the result they might have for other people.

At 19, I had left home and was no longer under the control of my parents.

A lot of younger drivers in the West are filtered out of the system as they could not afford, or possibly even get insurance.

Here if they don't bother to turn their lights on, I doubt they worry too much about insurance/licence/sobriety

[cyberfarang]

Sad, totally unnecessary waste of a young life. Lucky her 2 friends weren't badly injured, but they'll have this crash on their minds for a long time to come. Unfortunately it will happen again tonight and tomorrow etc

My bet is it will all be a distant memory within a month.

I wouldn`t even give it a month. People involved in road accidents just become another numbered statistic. A 19 year old girl who has hardly lived yet snuffed out. I agree it`s a good thing no innocent people were seriously injured or killed, but sad and tragic nonetheless. Like the old song, when will they ever learn. But they never do.

[Sydebolle]

That's not an Isuzu, it's a Hilux VIGO. You can tell from the air intake on the hood (bonnet). Isuzus don't have them. Stran.........

My goodness, the dealer promised me a real Isuzu D-Max 3 litres turbo automatic 4WD with leather seats and the works.

It seems that he was lying and sold me a fake