Van runs over and kills 19-year-old motorcyclist in Sri Racha, van driver blames motorbike rider for speedy driving

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Sri Racha —

A van ran over and killed a 19-year-old motorcyclist in Sri Racha. The driver claimed the young motorcyclist drove at high speed and caused the accident.

Pol. Capt. Warangkana Ketudomsin from the Nong Kham Police Station received a report at 10:10 PM yesterday, July 31st, that a collision between a van and a motorbike had left a young motorbike rider stuck under the van.

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The accident happened on a dim two-lane Bueng – Pak Ruam Road in the Bueng subdistrict of Sri Racha. The white van was found with the victim identified later only as Suphat, 19, stuck beneath the wheel. He suffered multiple bone fractures and was pronounced dead at the scene by Nong Kham police who helped rescue workers rescue his body from under the van.

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The van driver, Sanguan (last name withheld), 34, told police that the victim who drove a black/white Honda Wave cut him off while he tried to turn his vehicle. He also claimed that the victim drove at high speed and crashed into him despite him already opening a turn signal.

Nong Kham police reportedly reviewed CCTV footage and found that the victim fell before reaching the van and slid under it. But they said that they would interrogate the driver again to find the exact cause of the accident.

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Aim Tanakorn
The local news translator at The Pattaya News. Aim is a twenty-four year old who currently lives in Bangkok. Interested in English translation, story-telling, and entrepreneurship, he believes that hard-working is an indispensable component of every success in this world.