A drunk driving incident killed a Phuket motorcycle rider this morning.
A 48 yr old Phuket passenger van driver has been charged with drink driving inflicting dying following a collision with a motorcycle in Samkong, resulting in the demise of the fifty four year previous motorcycle rider. The incident occurred at around 6am when the van, travelling at a high pace, collided with the motorcycle from behind, causing the rider to hit a roadside energy pole, The Phuket News reported.
Police were knowledgeable of the accident on Yaowarat Road, which occurred approximately one hundred metres from the intersection between Sam Kong Intersection and Bangkok Hospital Phuket. Emergency responders from Vachira Phuket Hospital and the Kusoldharm Foundation arrived on the scene to search out the victim lying beside his closely broken Honda Wave motorcycle.
Discount , a legally registered Toyota taxi, sustained significant injury to its front left area and had a cracked windscreen as a outcome of impression. The driver, Natthaphong Samart, was waiting for the police once they arrived on the scene. The investigation revealed that the motorbike rider was heading towards the intersection when he was struck by the van.
Natthaphong Samart was subsequently taken to Phuket City Police Station, where he underwent a blood alcohol take a look at. The results confirmed a blood alcohol content of 230 milligrams per one hundred millilitres (230mg/dL). Consequently, the police charged him with drunk driving inflicting demise, reckless driving causing death, and reckless driving causing property damage to others. Natthaphong confessed to the charges in opposition to him.
This information comes only a week after one other motorcycle rider was killed in Phuket.
Last week, a motorcycle tragedy in Phuket claimed the life of a young Polish woman. The 33 yr old rider was killed after she crashed her bike and slid under a trailer truck within the Chalong sub-district of Phuket’s primary metropolis district..