BANGKOK, 26 January 2011 (NNT)-The Don’t Drive Drunk Foundation’s proposal to prohibit alcohol consumption among drivers has been officially approved and will come into force on 1 February this year. According to the Ministry of Transport, drivers and passengers of all public transports except taxi, motorcycle and public van drivers will be penalized if the […]
Neither the girl involved in the crash or her relatives attended. “There is no contact, message of apology, or even a wreath from them” The under-aged driver of a sedan involved in a tollway crash that left nine van passengers dead will be sent to a home for girls after she acknowledges criminal offences to […]
The 16 year old girl blamed for the fatal tollway accident on Monday has become so stressed out that she asked why she did not die, her mother said yesterday. “Why don’t they take my life? Why don’t I just die?” the girl was quoted as saying. The girl is being treated for injuries at […]
Police say a 16 year old girl, a minor, was driving the sedan that collided with a passenger van in a horror road accident on an elevated tollway section of the Vibhavadi Rangsit highway on Monday night, killing eight people and injuring six others. They said persons of that age were not entitled to a […]
Eight people were killed last night when their passenger van was involved in a crash with a sedan on a tollway section of the Vibhavadi Rangsit highway. Seven other passengers trapped inside the van – Number Tor 11827 with 13-795 BKK licence plate – were wounded and admitted to the nearby Vibhavadi hospital. Some of […]
Police are checking video footage from closed-circuit cameras on a Bangkok expressway in a bid to determine the cause of Sunday’s horror van crash, which killed nine passengers. The driver of the van, who had 16 passengers on board, looks set to face a raft of charges, including reckless driving causing death, police said yesterday. […]
A packed van ferrying passengers on Sunday plunged from an expressway onto Rama VI road before bursting into flames, killing at least eight and seriously injuring five. The speedy van swerved and hit an expressway wall near Rama VI exit before plunging onto the road near Samsen School at about 5pm. The van then burst […]
SONGKHLA, Sept 14 – A Singaporean man was arrested Tuesday at a Thai-Malaysian border checkpoint in Sadao district of Songkhla province with more than 4,000 ecstasy pills and other illicit drugs, worth Bt3.5 million (about US$113,800), according to a Thai customs official. When the authorities found the drugs and arrested the man carrying them, he […]
