The Don’t Drink Drive Foundation has called for stricter drink driving laws after a drunk policeman caused an accident on Thursday, seriously injuring a 12-year-old boy and damaging 12 vehicles in Roi Et.

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The incident took place on Prem Pracharath Road on Thursday at 9.50am when the driver, identified as Pol Snr Sgt Maj Somsong Sriardree-ara, a police officer at Na Nai police station in Sakon Nakhon province, crashed his white pickup truck into another truck before hitting the rear of a motorbike that the 12-year-old boy was a passenger on.

Full story: Bangkok Post

Wassayos Ngamkham
BANGKOK POST