2-year-old girl, one man killed after speeding car rams into their bicycles

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2-year-old girl, one man killed after speeding car rams into their bicycles
By Coconuts Bangkok



KHON KAEN: -- A speeding Toyota Altis rammed into two bicycles in Khon Kaen yesterday, injuring one woman and killing two people — including a two-year-old girl — before the driver abandoned his car and fled the scene.

According to CCTV footage, the Toyota hit cyclist Chumporn Kertklao, 52, before it lost control and crashed into another cyclist, Jiraporn Klanak, 56, whose 2-year-old granddaughter Nattawadee Pansamrong was sitting on the back of the bicycle.

Chumporn and the two-year-old girl were killed instantly while Jiraporn was seriously injured and sent to hospital.

Full story: http://bangkok.coconuts.co/2016/04/29/2-year-old-girl-one-man-killed-after-speeding-car-rams-their-bicycles

-- Coconuts Bangkok 2016-04-29

[craigt3365]

Doing a runner after an accident should be a doubling of the fines and automatic guilty sentence. Especially for drink driving or drugs.

Condolences to the families of the deceased. How terrible.

[condo bought]

centuries of buffalo and carts to modern motorized vehicles in one generation.....

Add a complete lack of foresight, thought of others, or believe in ones mortality, and well.... there ya go.

Thailand is ready for a culture of bicycles like Venus is ready for Eskimos and igloos.

[laolover88]

Terrible story. So sad. Basically it is murder.

[Deserted]

Very sad

[z42]

For christ sake when will the clowns masquerading as cops, judges etc get a grip. If you do this you should be doing a mimimum of 10 years inside. RIP

[smedly]

Doing a runner after an accident should be a doubling of the fines and automatic guilty sentence. Especially for drink driving or drugs.

Condolences to the families of the deceased. How terrible.

should be a manditory jail term were a death is the result of at least 5 years, Thailand really needs to get serious with these people and start locking them up or it will never stop, a country that has the worst accident/fatality rate in the world and yet they still let this sort of thing go generally unpunnished

[smedly]

centuries of buffalo and carts to modern motorized vehicles in one generation.....

Add a complete lack of foresight, thought of others, or believe in ones mortality, and well.... there ya go.

Thailand is ready for a culture of bicycles like Venus is ready for Eskimos and igloos.

could just as easily have been someone on a motorbike the outcome would have been the same

[MaiChai]

Alot of these stories highlight this: penalties that are not a deterrent and almost zero policing. But nothing ever changes does it?

[55Jay]

Can and does happen all over the world. Life does seem to be cheap here though.

The 4 lane highway that cuts right through the middle of my town, is a death zone. Just the same old rusty "Slow Down In City Limits" sign next to the police station that cars and big trucks fly right past at 100-120kph - sometimes flashing their lights and blowing their horn madly as they barrel past the knot of kids, adults, cars and motorbikes at the daily market.

I've lived here 3 1/2 years and there's at least one death every 6 months or so. I hear the ambulance sirens, parents rush to the scene hoping it wasn't their 8 year old helmet free dumbshit on the family motorbike who got flattened this time. No mass protest by families at the Tessaban to install stop signs or signals. The police are a waste of sperm.

The town folk seem incapable of learning anything from the "last" one, or just too selfish or apathetic to act on it for the betterment of the town as a whole. You take your chances and if someone gets nailed, well, that's how it goes sometimes.

And so it goes. The monks rake in the donations as they blast the well used dead music CD from their expensive CD stereo system. People rub amulets and crawl around on their knees praying, and then throw a party at the headman's community center. That means food, and beverages, and lots of tables, chairs and umbrellas that need renting. The police strut around with their .357 Magnum hand cannons, and, ironically, don their high visibility traffic safety vests and block the tiny, narrow sois with cones for "sah-tafe-tee.

It's enough to wanna make you pull your hair out, or laugh, possibly both, simultaneously.

Life is cheap, and death seems to be a good little money spinner around here.

[Merylhighground]

Hideous tragedy. RIP to the victims.

Hope the killer get's caught soon, though seeing as it was only a Toyota and not a Merc or BMW driven by some HiSo I assume there will be a full man hunt and investigation.

Edited April 29, 2016 by Merylhighground

[little mary sunshine]

What a sick freaken society to tolerate this

Carnage day after day.....where are the

Authorities? Where is the justice? So

Sad for this innocent family

[Broken Record]

There's something wrong in a society where a driver has to flee the scene in fear of being beaten to death, he's probably handed himself in or is at his local temple by now.

The Police here are useless in general, to protect and serve is a bad joke, the only people they protect and serve are the few % of rich families that run Thailand, the general population are not important, in fact are more of a nuisance to them, they cannot gain anything of any substance from them, only a few hundred baht, they serve the wealthy by protecting them from the vast majority of Thai people who have nothing.

There's a reason why the general Thai population is scared of The Police and Army, the upper echelons of these organizations are allowed massive corruption opportunities as a payment for protecting those with everything from those with nothing.

Any wonder why this place seems so messed up at times ?

[StatlerandWaldorf]

I don't know if it is because there are simply more cars on the road or is the standard of driving becoming even worse?

On my daily drive to drop my Son at school I had 4 near misses the other day due to people cutting corners, randomly changing lanes, not knowing (or caring) what the road markings mean.

I see on a daily basis people in charge of motor vehicles who quite clearly are not in complete control of the vehicle, having young children myself, it terrifies me.

This is tragic and heartbreaking that such a young life was taken due to one persons carelessness, ALL accidents are preventable.

[dotpoom]

Terrible story. So sad. Basically it is murder.

No evidence to suggest the driver deliberately intended to kill the deceased.....the opposite in fact....May they RIP.

[RichardColeman]

Running away / That will double the fine to 2000 baht !

[tomwct]

You mean the driver left the scene! Really? In Thailand? Another stupid Thai driver! 2000 THB Fine!

[FourAces]

My wife had an accident that wasn't her fault the turd that hit her, called all his family and friends, they were there within minutes wanting to kill my wife.

When it was all over the police told her if it ever happens again lock the doors and keep driving.

[craigt3365]

Terrible story. So sad. Basically it is murder.

No evidence to suggest the driver deliberately intended to kill the deceased.....the opposite in fact....May they RIP.

You mean other than the open can of beer?

[Broken Record]

You mean the driver left the scene! Really? In Thailand? Another stupid Thai driver! 2000 THB Fine!

You know why drivers flee the scene ?

[metisdead]

I just found the video on LiveLeak, the car was not being driven at a reasonable speed, the victims were hit so hard and fast, they probably did not know what hit them. And the bicycle was going along on the left side of the road. RIP to the victims.

[stoneyboy]

Nothing untoward here,this is standard fare for Thailand.

Nothing I see regarding Thai road traffic accidents shocks me any longer,what does shock me more is the fact that nothing is being done to improve the standard of driving,the test and laws are a joke.

It's a pleasure to be driving in the UK again.

[Broken Record]

I just found the video top of this page on LiveLeak, the car was not being driven at a reasonable speed, the victims were hit so hard and fast, they probably did not know what hit them. And the bicycle was going along on the left side of the road. RIP to the victims.

That car was being driven at very high speed as you pointed out, no chance at all.

[AlphaSoiDog]

Can and does happen all over the world. Life does seem to be cheap here though.

Your quite right about it happening elsewhere. The frustration for people from elsewhere is that it would be so easy to reduce the problem here.

It's not possible to stop all the stupid people in the world, there are too many. But it would be so easy to get 90% to behave in a more rational and predictable way. But even when I explain how, Thai people can't seem to comprehend. And the govt. is full of Thai people...

[gandalf12]

Doing a runner after an accident should be a doubling of the fines and automatic guilty sentence. Especially for drink driving or drugs.

Condolences to the families of the deceased. How terrible.

Should be an automatic 10 years of hard labour in jail for him.

Condolences to the family, such a tragedy should never have happened

[Sooo Upto Me]

I don't know if it is because there are simply more cars on the road or is the standard of driving becoming even worse?

On my daily drive to drop my Son at school I had 4 near misses the other day due to people cutting corners, randomly changing lanes, not knowing (or caring) what the road markings mean.

I see on a daily basis people in charge of motor vehicles who quite clearly are not in complete control of the vehicle, having young children myself, it terrifies me.

This is tragic and heartbreaking that such a young life was taken due to one persons carelessness, ALL accidents are preventable.

Didn't think schools are open yet, May 16th

[amykat]

International schools are certainly open now.

[dageurreotype]

Can and does happen all over the world. Life does seem to be cheap here though.

The 4 lane highway that cuts right through the middle of my town, is a death zone. Just the same old rusty "Slow Down In City Limits" sign next to the police station that cars and big trucks fly right past at 100-120kph - sometimes flashing their lights and blowing their horn madly as they barrel past the knot of kids, adults, cars and motorbikes at the daily market.

I've lived here 3 1/2 years and there's at least one death every 6 months or so. I hear the ambulance sirens, parents rush to the scene hoping it wasn't their 8 year old helmet free dumbshit on the family motorbike who got flattened this time. No mass protest by families at the Tessaban to install stop signs or signals. The police are a waste of sperm.

The town folk seem incapable of learning anything from the "last" one, or just too selfish or apathetic to act on it for the betterment of the town as a whole. You take your chances and if someone gets nailed, well, that's how it goes sometimes.

And so it goes. The monks rake in the donations as they blast the well used dead music CD from their expensive CD stereo system. People rub amulets and crawl around on their knees praying, and then throw a party at the headman's community center. That means food, and beverages, and lots of tables, chairs and umbrellas that need renting. The police strut around with their .357 Magnum hand cannons, and, ironically, don their high visibility traffic safety vests and block the tiny, narrow sois with cones for "sah-tafe-tee.

It's enough to wanna make you pull your hair out, or laugh, possibly both, simultaneously.

Life is cheap, and death seems to be a good little money spinner around here.

Dear God yet another moronic 'happens all over the world' post. Yes, but when it happens 'all over the world' the civilised bits hand down hefty penalties to act as a deterrent. Here, you're lucky if they even get off their <deleted> to track the miscreants down, let alone penalise them. Stupid post.

[captspectre]

Doing a runner after an accident should be a doubling of the fines and automatic guilty sentence. Especially for drink driving or drugs.

Condolences to the families of the deceased. How terrible.

thai,s have always ran off after an accident! It is built into their genes, forty five years ago, if you were in a taxi and the driver had an accident and ran off! YOU were held responsible because you hired him!

[jeab1980]

Have seen cctv of first bike hit. Terrible waste of life