Australian who fled accident scene and was chased by police hits and kills woman 50 in Udon

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Australian who fled accident scene and was chased by police hits and kills woman 50 in Udon

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

UDON THANI: -- A 55 year old Australian man fleeing cops after a minor traffic accident hit and killed a 50 year old woman on a motorcycle in downtown Udon.

 

Her son and another boy who she had just picked up from school are gravely injured in hospital.

 

Police found Joel Mackerry (name transliterated from Thai script) sobbing behind the wheel of his Isuzu pick-up.

 

He had collided head on with a bike driven by 50 year old Pranee Kusuman from Udon. The Honda Wave was found under the damaged front of the vehicle.

 

Pranee was twenty meters away with multiple fractures including a broken neck. She was dead at the scene.

 

In a grievous condition nearby knocked into a fence of a parking lot was her 11 year old son Thannarak, a P5 student at a local school.

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Sprawled in the road was 15 year old Wacharaphon Naononthong a M3 student at the same school.

 

Both boys were in school uniform and were given emergency CPR at the scene before being rushed to a downtown hospital.

 

The accident happened at the turning into San Jao Poo-Yaa around 4.15pm and caused a serious traffic jam.

 

The Australian man said he had a Thai wife from Udon. He had been to a clinic where he is being treated for a mental illness.

 

He said he sideswiped a car and collided with a taxi but damage was minimal.

 

He did not stop but a security guard called police who gave chase.

 

He was on his way to eat at Central Plaza when he collided with the motorcycle.

 

The victim's husband Khambai said that his wife had just picked up their son and a relative from school and was on her way to meet him so they could all go home together.

 

She was just 100 meters away when she was hit by the foreign driver in the pick-up, said the distraught husband and father.

 

Thai Rath did not report what charges might have been made or what subsequently happened to the Australian driver.

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2017-06-21

[CelticBhoy]

Farang flees the scene   . . .  

 

A minor scrape and does a runner!

Then nearly wipes out an entire family.

 

I wouldn't like to be in this guys shoes, that's for sure.

[biker Bob]

OMG.  RIP

[biker Bob]

2 minutes ago, CelticBhoy said:

Farang flees the scene   . . .  

 

A minor scrape and does a runner!

Then nearly wipes out an entire family.

 

I wouldn't like to be in this guys shoes, that's for sure.

No, this is bad.

[Dobredin Ghusputin]

13 minutes ago, webfact said:

Police found Joel Mackerry (name transliterated from Thai script)

 

If it doesn't translate to Joel Na Melbourne, he's screwed.

 

[Tilacme]

I am not sure what would be worse, facing a certain gouging by the Thai legal system or, living with that carnage on your conscience.

[ezzra]

This moron idiot now is going to give all us foreigners driving cars

a bad name, and there's nothing more entertaining for the local people

than pointing fingers at foreigners.. what  a complete imbecilic dunce

not to own to a minor accident and be done with it....

[hgma]

BAD.........cant imagine anything worse.

RIP 

[robblok]

34 minutes ago, Tilacme said:

I am not sure what would be worse, facing a certain gouging by the Thai legal system or, living with that carnage on your conscience.

That totally depends on what kind of guy you are.. on that values money over life or not. 

 

I certainly would not want to be in his shoes. Seems not only Thais use the mental illness excuse. 

 

This guy gives us all a bad name, but it shows us also that foreigners are not total saints. Lots of bad apples here too maybe should keep that in mind the next time we start bashing Thais. You read it quite often about a Thai doing a runner but I have read now more then enough times about foreigners doing the same, even though there are far less of us.

 

When Thais do it they get hung out here, when a foreigner does it there will always be those defending him / her on here. 

[darksidedog]

Utterly disgraceful behaviour. If ever I have seen a case, where throwing the book at an offender is needed, this is it.

RIP to the mum and I hope the kids recover swiftly.

Edited June 21, 2017 by darksidedog

[J Smith]

Screwed

[tracker1]

A mental condition ? hitting 2 cars and then trying to do the Thai thing doing a runner and runs head on into a bike killing and injuring sounds more like an alcohol problem ! Big trouble either way ! Sad for the deceased and injured

[DaveE13]

Idiot should of just stopped after the minor knock.  Now he is <deleted>. 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

The article and events are bad, that's for sure.

 

But I'm not sure what to make of the "fleeing" the scene of the accident and being chased by police bit.  The article kind of makes it sound like the guy was running away from the accident and police when the fatal crash occurred.

 

But at another point in the article, after the initial smaller accident, it says he was heading to Central for lunch.

 

Quote

He was on his way to eat at Central Plaza when he collided with the motorcycle.

He obviously didn't stop after the initial minor accidents. But it also doesn't sound like he was like racing away to avoid the police when the second, fatal crash occurred.

 

Not sure what was going on with this guy, but he does certainly seem a menace on the road. Wonder what his "mental illness" is all about.

 

Edited June 21, 2017 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[trogers]

The old are wise, out of the frying pan and into the fire...

[Thechook]

Deserves 10+ years in a thai hell hole.  All the lefty nutjobs and hug a slimeball lunatics in Australia will come out in support of the poor guy.  Call your wife and get her to drop you off a toothbrush and kiss her goodbye.

[Dave67]

Mental illnes or not If "Damage was minimal" by his own admission why didnt he stop.

[Aussie Jo]

What an idiot!!!!!  He certainly has mental health issues.  Ruin his life AND another families life.  Deserves all he gets!!!!!!

 

[colinneil]

Minor incident then drives off causing death and serious injuries.

Ruined many lives in the process.

yes this clown has mental issues, should have not been driving, if this is the case.

 

Sad waste of a life, sad for those seriously injured, my thoughts are with these poor people.

[Prbkk]

The details are vague but if it was a pursuit at speed then the police bear ( a small) part of the responsibility: follow at a distance, monitor and arrest at the destination should be the rule ( unless there is imminent danger to human life).

[YetAnother]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Thai Rath did not report what charges might have been made or what subsequently happened to the Australian driver.

pretty incomplete story

[boomerangutang]

                                              There's a bit of a lesson here:  If you cause a minor fender-bender or whatever, offer money right away.  That will usually fix the situation.  I've done it.  Once I bent a wheel on a parked tricacle (sp?) and gave the guy Bt.500.    Another time, I was backing out of a parking space and slightly bumped a parked motorbike.   1,000 baht and a 'sorry' and we parted ways.

 

So sad that a woman died and two boys seriously injured.   The farang knows he shouldn't have been driving.  He must feel like vomit.

[gk10002000]

now wait a moment.  three people on the motorbike?  Easy to control and handle and drive?  Not.  Who was in what lane?

[scorecard]

1 hour ago, tracker1 said:

A mental condition ? hitting 2 cars and then trying to do the Thai thing doing a runner and runs head on into a bike killing and injuring sounds more like an alcohol problem ! Big trouble either way ! Sad for the deceased and injured

 

Agree, and if he knows he has  mental condition why was he driving at all?

[Rc2702]

Thai police gave chase and did their job and they are partly responsible? If thai/ANY police chase you stop that's it. He never stopped he is 100% responsible.

[nasanews]

I wonder what will happen to him?

[Psimbo]

................. and the usual crass comments appear.

[ratcatcher]

17 minutes ago, gk10002000 said:

now wait a moment.  three people on the motorbike?  Easy to control and handle and drive?  Not.  Who was in what lane?

Yes,  3 people on the bike, a very common sight all over the Kingdom. Poor people, and there are millions, do what they can to get their children to school, sometimes at risk of life and limb.  

This story, however, is about a man who claims 'mental illness' (often caused by one too many beers) and who had a minor accident with two other vehicles. This where his trouble really begins. He fled the scene instead of stopping and dealing with it and instead of returning to his home decided to go to the Central Mall to eat.

The tragedy is that he has left a family without a mother, killed a second family's son and ruined his own and hisThai wife's lives.

It is not hard to feel sorry for the Thais affected by this, but I doubt that anyone here doesn't feel some sympathy for this farang who now faces a gloomy uncertain future.

 

 

[Bassosa]

Just now, ratcatcher said:

Yes,  3 people on the bike, a very common sight all over the Kingdom. Poor people, and there are millions, do what they can to get their children to school, sometimes at risk of life and limb.  

This story, however, is about a man who claims 'mental illness' (often caused by one too many beers) and who had a minor accident with two other vehicles. This where his trouble really begins. He fled the scene instead of stopping and dealing with it and instead of returning to his home decided to go to the Central Mall to eat.

The tragedy is that he has left a family without a mother, killed a second family's son and ruined his own and hisThai wife's lives.

It is not hard to feel sorry for the Thais affected by this, but I doubt that anyone here doesn't feel some sympathy for this farang who now faces a gloomy uncertain future.

 

 

Clearly a man who looks after himself...and just himself.

[starky]

15 minutes ago, Peterw42 said:

A team is being set up as we speak, the terms of reference will be to somehow apportion blame to Thailand, Thai people or the Thai police. So far the Thai police are partly to blame because they chased him, and the victims are to blame because they were 3 up on a scooter. The westerner did a runner, but thats a Thai thing.

If a Thai person did this it would be a 25 page lynch mob thread with 67 million Thais guilty by association.

 

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