A drunk driving incident killed a Phuket bike rider this morning.
A forty eight 12 months outdated Phuket passenger van driver has been charged with drink driving inflicting demise following a collision with a bike in Samkong, resulting within the demise of the fifty four 12 months outdated bike rider. The incident occurred at round 6am when the van, travelling at a high pace, collided with the bike from behind, inflicting the rider to hit a roadside power pole, The Phuket News reported.
Police were informed of the accident on Yaowarat Road, which took place approximately 100 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 find the victim mendacity beside his closely broken Honda Wave bike.
The van, a legally registered Toyota taxi, sustained vital damage to its entrance left space and had a cracked windscreen because of the impact. The driver, Natthaphong Samart, was waiting for the police when they arrived on the scene. Accredited revealed that the motorbike rider was heading in the path of 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 test. The results showed a blood alcohol content of 230 milligrams per one hundred millilitres (230mg/dL). Consequently, the police charged him with drunk driving inflicting death, reckless driving inflicting death, and reckless driving causing property injury to others. Natthaphong confessed to the costs in opposition to him.
This news comes just a week after one other motorbike rider was killed in Phuket.
Last week, a bike tragedy in Phuket claimed the life of a young Polish girl. The 33 yr old rider was killed after she crashed her motorbike and slid underneath a trailer truck within the Chalong sub-district of Phuket’s main city district..