Appeal Court Gives Driver In 2010 Tollway Carnage Suspended Sentence

[Flashermac]

The female driver of a sedan which collided with a passenger van on the Don Muang tollway in 2010, causing the death of nine people, was on Tuesday handed a two-year jail term by an Appeal Court, which also suspended it for four years.

 

Orachorn "Praewa" Thephasadin Na Ayudhya, then 16, was driving her Honda Civic on the night of December 27, 2010, when she collided with the van on the elevated Don Muang tollway.

 

The van crashed into a barrier near the Bang Khen exit. Passengers were thrown out from the van and fell to the road below. Orachorn sustained minor injuries.

 

The Central Juvenile and Family Court read the Appeals Court ruling, which also ordered Orachorn to do public service for 48 hours per year for four years.

 

The Court had earlier passed a two-year sentence on her but suspended it for three years.

 

 

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Appeal-Court-gives-driver-in-2010-tollway-carnage--30231976.html

[Flashermac]

To refresh your memories, this was the 16-year-old rich bitch home on a visit from studying in the USA (high school?), who was too young to drive legally in LOS. She borrowed a friend's car anyway and was talking on her phone when she rammed into a van coming to Bangkok from Thammasat University's Rangsit campus. She shoved the van off the expressway, and all 9 on board it were killed. Besides the van drier, the victims were a lecturer, several graduate students and the rest undergrad students.

 

As soon as I saw her family name, I knew she would get of with a slapped wrist. Amazing Thailand

[khunsanuk]

Hi,

 

No surprise there

 

Sanuk!

[cavanami]

Let's get Suthep on the band wagon for this shit....never happen, he knows his limits!

 

This is the corruption (unjustice) that will continue in LOS for some decades to come....

[bust]

Same as the young Lao girl killed crossing the road. Kind of makes Thai still fit the "developing" tag.

[radioman]

I doubt there is a bm alive today who will see the end of corruption such as that. Sad and wrong but I doubt it will ever change.

[Flashermac]

2010 road crash victims' kin await final verdict

 

 

THE RELATIVES of the people killed in a 2010 tollway accident hope the criminal proceedings against an underage driver - who has already been found guilty by two courts - will end soon so civil proceedings can resume.

 

The relatives have been demanding Bt120 million in total from the young defendant, whose reckless driving killed nine people and injured several others.

 

Yesterday, the Court of Appeals upheld the guilty verdict against the defendant and prescribed a slightly harsher sentence, though it was still a suspended jail term.

 

The Civil Court had initially dropped the compensation lawsuits, citing the need for the case to be backed by a final ruling related to criminal conviction by the Central Juvenile and Family Court.

 

"I want Bt19 million in compensation. Though it will never pay for my son's life, this amount is based on the income my son would have earned had he been alive," Tawil Chaotiang said yesterday. Her only son was a PhD holder.

 

Also killed in the accident was a fourth-year student of Thammasat University, whose father Pol Colonel Saran Nilwan showed up in the courtroom yesterday.

 

"We have to wait for the criminal conviction to become final before we continue with the civil lawsuits," Saran said, adding that it appeared as if the defendant intended to drag the case on for as long as possible.

 

"In fact, we had decided not to appeal if the defendant did not appeal the lower court's verdict," Saran said, adding that he had heard that the defendant now planned |to take the case to the Supreme Court.

 

The defendant was 17 at the time of the accident in 2010 - below the legal age limit for driving.

 

While on the tollway, her sedan banged into a public-transport van causing it to spin, overturn and hurl several people, including the female van driver, over the edge of the elevated tollway.

 

Nine passengers were killed and several others were seriously injured.

 

The girl survived the incident without a scratch.

 

Last year, the court found the girl guilty of reckless driving that resulted in deaths and property damage.

 

It handed down a two-year jail term that was suspended for three years, ordered her to do 48 hours of community service and barred her from driving until she turns 25.

 

The Court of Appeals yesterday upheld the guilty verdict, ordered the jail term to be suspended for four years, required her to complete 48 hours of community service every year for four years and imposed a similar driving ban.

 

 

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/2010-road-crash-victims-kin-await-final-verdict-30232031.html

[WorldFun]

sad indeed