Accident at Heroines Monument leaves Phuket traffic cop in ICU

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Accident at Heroines Monument leaves Phuket traffic cop in ICU

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It is believed L/C Thanakorn Jimjuan fell asleep at the wheel of the vehicle when the accident occurred. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET: -- A traffic police officer from the Phuket City Police is currently in ICU at Vachira Phuket Hospital after crashing his car into chain barriers circling Heroines Monument last night (Dec 1).

 

Thalang Police’s Lt Col Sanit Nookong was alerted of an accident in Srisoonthornat at midnight last night where it was reported a car has crashed into barriers at Heroines Monument.

 

Police arrived at the scene with rescue workers to find a wrecked Songkhla registered Toyota Vios in the middle of the road. Inside the vehicle police found several driving licences.

 

Full story: http://www.thephuketnews.com/accident-at-heroines-monument-leaves-phuket-traffic-cop-in-icu-60088.php

 

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[stevenl]

He was taking those DL's back to Phuket from Songkhla?

[Just1Voice]

Fell asleep or drunk?  I vote for the latter. 

 

[Psimbo]

20 minutes ago, Just1Voice said:

Fell asleep or drunk?  I vote for the latter. 

 

Assumption based on what exactly?

[LivinginKata]

47 minutes ago, stevenl said:

He was taking those DL's back to Phuket from Songkhla?

 

Exactly... he was stationed in Phuket Town. He was driving from outside Phuket so why would he have seized DLs .... something very fishy here.

 

Lt Col Sanit said, “What we know so far is that L/C Thanakorn had just come from another province when the accident happened. He had driven a long distance and may have fallen asleep at the wheel.

 

“L/C Thanakorn’s friends came to the hospital after learning about the accident and confirmed that he is a traffic police officer stationed at Phuket City Police Station.

 

“We believe that the driving licences we found in his possession had been seized from motorists who had violated traffic laws,” he said.

 

 

Read more at http://www.thephuketnews.com/accident-at-heroines-monument-leaves-phuket-traffic-cop-in-icu-60088.php#3BezB0u5yOFPOiLe.99

[sandgroper2]

2 hours ago, stevenl said:

He was taking those DL's back to Phuket from Songkhla?

Correct. That is what is written. If you have knowledge that something illegal is going on here, you should notify the police immediately.

[stevenl]

20 minutes ago, sandgroper2 said:

Correct. That is what is written. If you have knowledge that something illegal is going on here, you should notify the police immediately.

Not necessary, the police already know.

[fleur3]

coming from another province so coming from the Mainland and car with confiscated driveslicences ?? Remarkeble,

[steelepulse]

5 hours ago, stevenl said:

Not necessary, the police already know.

 

Of course they do! I seriously doubt L/C was on the d/l confiscation program on his own.

[sandgroper2]

13 hours ago, steelepulse said:

 

Of course they do! I seriously doubt L/C was on the d/l confiscation program on his own.

I agree, you could not have put it more eloquently if you had tried.

[richard_smith237]

21 hours ago, Psimbo said:

Assumption based on what exactly?

 

Probability, probably... 

 

Night time... Cop... Thai... Accident...  its a fairly probable assumption that he was drunk... Just an assumption, but we make those based on general experience... and for many the general experience involving an accident, a Police Officer, and Accident and night time is that Alcohol is more often than not involved...

 

I do not know of any Thai's who have not been in a traffic accident where alcohol was involved. Every Policeman I know believe they are beyond the law and that includes drink driving. 

 

 

The numerous Drivers Licences are questionable: Perhaps they were being returned to province of origin after out of district drivers got pulled over in the Songkhla province.