A retired teacher found dead in a car in a temple’s pond

 

A 65-year old retired teacher who was reported by her relatives to have gone missing since Thursday night (Aug 17) after attending a funeral rite at a temple in Prachin Buri province has been found dead in her car in the temple’s pond.

 

Relatives of Mrs Wasana Chankayan, a former teacher at Prachin Buri technical college, posted an announcement in Facebook page, saying the retiree did not return home after attending a religious rite at Wat Chaeng in Muang district and could not be contacted.

 

However, workers at the temple found wheel tracks of what was believed to be a car descending a staircase and plunging into the pond.  Then they alerted rescue workers.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/retired-teacher-found-dead-car-temples-pond/

 

 

 

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A sad story, and condolences to her family.

 

(Pol Cpt Sumit Akkaranet, an inquiry officer attached to Muang district police station, said he suspected the victim who had just had an eye surgery might not know there is a pond and drive into it. Or she might have mistaken the accelerator as a brake and plunged her car into the pond.)

 

Surely, if he just said, 'at this moment in time, we have no real clues as to the circumstances of the incident', it would be far better than his own, personal, bizarre  speculation ? 

Yeah, there is absolutely not anything suspicious with this. I perfectly normal to get into your car and plunge out in the temple pond. 

I have never confused the brake for the gas....the old parking structure syndrome....

 

 

That was not the stairway to heaven....

 

Ummm.....probably too sad seeing her friend has left.

3 hours ago, cardinalblue said:

I have never confused the brake for the gas....the old parking structure syndrome....

 

 

That was not the stairway to heaven....

 

Plenty have....many many reports of it happening.

Edited August 19, 20178 yr by tryasimight

rip   sad

18 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

A sad story, and condolences to her family.

 

(Pol Cpt Sumit Akkaranet, an inquiry officer attached to Muang district police station, said he suspected the victim who had just had an eye surgery might not know there is a pond and drive into it. Or she might have mistaken the accelerator as a brake and plunged her car into the pond.)

 

Surely, if he just said, 'at this moment in time, we have no real clues as to the circumstances of the incident', it would be far better than his own, personal, bizarre  speculation ? 

just shows the quality of driving here once again if she had had eye surgery she should not have been behind the wheel of a car good job she did not hit and kill any innocence victim's. RIP

On 8/20/2017 at 7:00 AM, catman20 said:

just shows the quality of driving here once again if she had had eye surgery she should not have been behind the wheel of a car good job she did not hit and kill any innocence victim's. RIP

O please I had retina reattachment and drove home in the states. Yes we know you do not have to explain

7 hours ago, moe666 said:

O please I had retina reattachment and drove home in the states. Yes we know you do not have to explain

your not Thai. i will not explain that either 

On 8/19/2017 at 1:37 AM, Get Real said:

Yeah, there is absolutely not anything suspicious with this. I perfectly normal to get into your car and plunge out in the temple pond. 

Actually, it is. Eye surgery + night time  + Elderly driver =  Potential and likely incident.

These types oof drivers regularly and I stress the word regularly have collisions  or run down people. So, Get Real and accept the reality.

8 hours ago, moe666 said:

O please I had retina reattachment and drove home in the states. Yes we know you do not have to explain

And did you know that had an incident occurred, the courts would have found you  negligent, with a strong likelihood of criminal negligence  added had you injured a third party?

What part of the not driving instructions following the procedure did you not understand? Because you were lucky to avoid a negative incident does not  justify having  been a selfish, irresponsible fool.

Driving should also be avoided until vision improves and stabilizes. Initial depth perception and field of view is compromised after surgery and care should be taken before patients get back behind the wheel. A period of healing is necessary after surgery before patients will begin to see an improvement in their vision. This improvement should be expected to begin two weeks after surgery, and within six weeks postoperative vision improvement should be complete. The retina may continue to heal for a year or more, and it may take months for vision to stabilize after surgery.

 

 

 

 

 

3 hours ago, geriatrickid said:

Actually, it is. Eye surgery + night time  + Elderly driver =  Potential and likely incident.

These types oof drivers regularly and I stress the word regularly have collisions  or run down people. So, Get Real and accept the reality.

Oh please. You wouldn´t know reality if it knoked on your door.