Taxi driver falls to death from elevated expressway

[snoop1130]

Taxi driver falls to death from elevated expressway

By The Nation

 

 

A taxi driver fell to his death from the Bang Plee-Suksawat elevated expressway after he apparently tried to traverse the gap between two roads.

 

The body of Supit Khotphan, 50, was spotted yesterday morning under the Bang Plee-Suksawat expressway in Samut Prakan’s Muang district at about 8:30am.

 

Police believe he ran out of gas as his taxi was about to reach the Srinakarin exit so he decided to climb over the gap to make a phone call to expressway officials and he apparently fell while he was climbing back.

 

Manee Naneraksa, the driver of a tow-truck, said he was informed at 11.30pm on Monday night that a taxi driver had used an emergency phone on the expressway to call for help after he ran out of gas.

 

Manee said he went to the spot and found the taxi but not the driver. He said he thought the driver might have received a lift to buy petrol so he left the scene.

 

But in the morning, he found the same taxi parked at the same spot so he towed it one side of the expressway to avoid an accident.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/breakingnews/30312600

 

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[tracker1]

 In the morning, he found the same taxi parked at the same spot so he towed it one side of the expressway to avoid an accident. Very considerate of the tow truck driver to leave the taxi there all night but move it in the morning.

[berybert]

1 hour ago, tracker1 said:

 In the morning, he found the same taxi parked at the same spot so he towed it one side of the expressway to avoid an accident. Very considerate of the tow truck driver to leave the taxi there all night but move it in the morning.

Do you think the taxi driver would have left the taxi in one of the lanes rather than the hard shoulder then ?

[tracker1]

7 hours ago, berybert said:

Do you think the taxi driver would have left the taxi in one of the lanes rather than the hard shoulder then ?

I surmise that if the taxi was stopped in a safe place in the beginning there would have been no reason to tow it to the side of the expressway Hmmm !

[fruitman]

Does the elevated expressway have any shoulder?

 

And do motorists who need to call for help first have to step over a gap in the elevated road? I have never seen those phones/panic buttons

[berybert]

6 hours ago, tracker1 said:

I surmise that if the taxi was stopped in a safe place in the beginning there would have been no reason to tow it to the side of the expressway Hmmm !

Maybe the reason the tow truck didn't tow it in the first place is because it was in a safe place.

Edited April 19, 2017 by berybert

[Srikcir]

20 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

he ran out of gas as his taxi was about to reach the Srinakarin exit

Where there were two toll booths. Did they deny assistance or cooperation?

Or Manee either didn't think to ask or afraid to lose face if he did?

[tracker1]

6 hours ago, berybert said:

Maybe the reason the tow truck didn't tow it in the first place is because it was in a safe place.

so why tow it ? what to a safer place then the safe place it was already ? yep that makes sence

[berybert]

3 hours ago, tracker1 said:

so why tow it ? what to a safer place then the safe place it was already ? yep that makes sence

No he was going to leave it where it was until the dead guy came back to drive it away.

Or did he tow it to a safe place then just leave it there and not worry about any sort of payment ?