Two Dutch tourists were reported to have been assaulted by minibus drivers after they refused to pay 1,000 baht in damages after one of them walked into a parked, small minibus at Patong beach in Phuket province early on Monday morning. Unubovd Alcawbimel, 19, and Bootaman Frans Jelle, 20, were attacked about 2.45 am shortly […]
A van transporting students from Bangkok back to Yala crashed with a ten-wheel truck, killing seven students and the van driver and injuring eight other students Tuesday, police said. The accident happened at 12:30 pm on the Asia Highway in Tambon Klong Channuan of Surat Thani’s Wiang Sa district. Read more: The Nation
The Juvenile and Family Court prosecutor will file charges of reckless driving causing deaths and injuries and using a mobile phone behind the wheel against a 17-year-old girl who was involved in a fatal expressway accident on December 27 last year. The crash killed nine people and injured several others. Read more: The Nation
The family of an academic who with eight other van passengers was killed in a tollway crash 100 days ago yesterday sued the girl driving the other vehicle for Bt36 million ($1.2 million). In the civil lawsuit, the mother of Sastra Chaothiang said she had lost support from her son calculated from his Bt50,000 monthly […]
The Juvenile Litigation Department approves the request by a 17 year old woman charged in a reckless driving case that left nine people dead last December to delay the indictment to allow further investigation into possible fault by another driver involved in the accident. Special prosecutor of the Juvenile and Family Litigation Department, Suphak Sitthiwanich, […]
BANGKOK, 8 March 2011 (NNT) – The Department of Land Transport has launched a campaign to promote driving disciplines among 200 van drivers to reduce accidents on toll ways. The Department, in cooperation with Donmuang toll way Public Company Limited, is organizing a seminar for passenger van operators as well as their drivers in an […]
The case of the 17-year-old girl, who involed in a fatal accident on December 28 which killed nine people and injuring several others, was handed over to the Central Children’s and Juvenile Court prosecutor on Monday. Metropolitan Police Bureau deputy commissioner Amnuay Nimmano said police investigators believe the suspect should be charged with reckless driving, […]
The parents of an underage driver involved in a road accident that killed nine van passengers in late December were Monday accused of illegally allowing her to drive without a licence. Law lecturers of Thammasat University, who lodged the police complaint on behalf of all 13 victims, including four injured passengers, also named the unidentified […]
