Military and police officials manning checkpoints along highways across the country to ensure traffic safety during the New Year Festival have so far impounded about 100 vehicles from drunk drivers, National Council for Peace and Order spokesman Col Winthai Suwaree said on Monday. The action taken was in line with army chief Theerachai Nakwanich’s order […]
PHUKET: A police officer was killed when he was hit by a minivan while waiting to make a u-turn on his motorbike at a set of traffic lights close to Phuket International Airport earlier today (Nov 9). It is alleged that the driver of the minivan was drunk at the time of the accident. Read […]
The deputy superintendent of Kien Sa district police was abruptly transferred to an inactive post at the operations of Surat Thani provincial police. He was seen in a video clip apparently drunk and reprimanding officers manning a checkpoint to detect drunk driving. Read more: thaipbs.or.th Thai PBS
BANGKOK — A taxi driver has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting his passenger and stealing her mobile phone last week. Chartchai Pinthurak, 36, is accused of raping the 37-year-old victim at a hotel in Bangkok’s Bueng Kum district early Friday morning after she reportedly passed out in his vehicle from drinking too much. […]
Three people were slightly hurt within the incident, that was confirmed to Blick by Thai Airways representative Boonroek Suppamitkitsana. The drunkard continued to be for the reason that condition for that remaining six hours from the flight, until he was shipped to Thai police on landing in Bangkok. People on the airplane told the newspaper […]
CHONBURI — A captain has been arrested for driving his tourist boat at full-speed onto a popular beach in Pattaya last night. Police were alerted around midnight after locals reported seeing the boat speed towards the shore, causing foreign tourists who were relaxing on the beach to flee for their lives. Read more: khaosodenglish.com By […]
BANGKOK — Thai police are investigating a traffic cop who was filmed admitting that he was “a little bit drunk” while manning a road checkpoint in Bangkok last week. The video, filmed on a phone and posted on social media over the weekend, shows the officer speaking incoherently to a motorist who he waved down […]
BANGKOK — Two policemen were injured by drunk drivers in two separate road accidents in Bangkok last night. The first incident took place at around 11pm on New Phetburi Road, when traffic police asked a visibly intoxicated motorcyclist to stop at a checkpoint. Read more: khaosodenglish.com
