Pattaya—
At 2:00 AM, on November 4th, 2023, Pattaya City police officers received a multiple-motorcycle collision report in Bang Lamung, Chonburi.
The Pattaya City rescue team was dispatched to the incident scene on Pattaya Third Road and joined by The Pattaya News team and found three motorcycles crashed on an intersection road with four minor injuries.
One of the victims, Mr. Santichai Limtrakul, a 32-year-old mobile app taxi rider, reportedly said to the rescue team that he was stopping at the intersection to cross the road with his foreign passenger and another motorcyclist, Ms. Sabaporn Kongcharoen, 26, waiting beside him. Suddenly, a Russian man allegedly crashed his motorcycle into Santichai and Sabaporn.
The rescue team performed first aid to the wounded before transferring them to a nearby hospital.
Initially, Pattaya City police officers asked the alleged Russian man to test his level of alcohol, but he aggressively refused and slurred incomprehensibly. He also refused to identify himself and was described by police as extremely uncooperative although there was a language barrier.
He also reportedly tried to leave the scene and escape but was stopped by law enforcement. The police officers then took him into custody for further investigation and likely would press charges against him for a DUI and attempt to conduct a blood alcohol test at the station.
The Russian man refused to speak with the press or answer questions. He was not injured.
