Flashermac Posted March 27, 2011 Report Share Posted March 27, 2011 Bangkok Post 27 Mar 2011 PATHUM THANI - Police have identified the owner of a white Porsche which slammed into a Lao teenager at such a high speed it cut her body in half and left her torso in the driver's seat. The distraught mother of Kambai Inthilat, 17, travelled from Laos to try and retrieve her daughter's remains yesterday. [color:red]The Porsche Cayman owner, Suppachai Thaksinthaweesap, 58, has contacted Pathum Thani police to ask for postponement of the date that he can bring the driver in, said Pol Lt Col Bancha Meelert who is in charge of the case.[/color] Mr Suppachai told police the driver would surrender to police after he returns from a trip to pay homage to his ancestors during the [color:red]Cheng Meng festival.[/color] Police said they did not know the relationship between Mr Suppachai and the driver of the Porsche. The teenager was hit by [color:red]the Porsche, which has red number plates[/color], while crossing the Pathum Thani-Bang Bua Thong Road on Friday afternoon. The force of the crash sent the girl's body through the windscreen, with her torso coming to rest on the driver's side. Police said the driver fled 10km from the crash scene before abandoning the car outside a restaurant with the torso still inside. Witnesses said the driver was a male wearing glasses and a white shirt. Pol Lt Col Bancha said Pathum Thani police would seek an arrest warrant for the driver if he failed to report to investigators. The girl's mother, Urai Inthilat, 35, yesterday sought police permission to collect her daughter's body, which is being kept at Thammasat Chaloem Phrakiat Hospital. But police said they could not release the body without an official letter from the Lao embassy. The mother will have to wait until tomorrow when she can ask for a letter from the embassy. Ms Urai said her daughter had recently travelled from Laos to stay with her aunt in Pathum Thani during the school holidays. Kambai had come to Thailand to help her aunt, Laddawan Soonthawong, 40, run her grilled-meat outlet. Ms Urai broke into tears when she inspected the Porsche parked at Pathum Thani police station after meeting with Pol Lt Col Bancha. She said she plans to hold a funeral for her daughter at Sai Noi temple in Nonthaburi's Bang Bua Thong district, before taking her ashes home to Laos. [color:red]She is entitled to seek up to 200,000 baht compensation from the owner of the Porsche.[/color] The incident comes three months after a Honda, driven by a 16-year-old girl, crashed into a van killing nine people. Link [Cheng meng ... when the Chinese take their ancestors' bones out of the tombs and wash them, usually having a picnic by the graves] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Central Scrutinizer Posted March 27, 2011 Report Share Posted March 27, 2011 "[Cheng meng ... when the Chinese take their ancestors' bones out of the tombs and wash them, usually having a picnic by the graves]" Not only the Chinese do this. My wife and her family will be doing the same for her aunt's bones this April after Songkran. They are of Lao Thai descent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bust Posted March 27, 2011 Report Share Posted March 27, 2011 That's pretty obscene.....200,000 THB for a life which will probably not cover the repair bill to the Porsche. So was the owner the driver? His son? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted March 27, 2011 Report Share Posted March 27, 2011 Anybody's guess who was driving but I'm sure the maid or some houseboy will fess up and spend some years in prison...for some compensation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted March 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2011 Red plate = new car. And that Porsche runs around 15 million baht new! My guess is another teenage driver in his present from his rich "hi so" Chinese-Thai daddy. << Police said the driver fled 10km from the crash scene before abandoning the car outside a restaurant with the torso still inside. >> Mr Nice Guy! Which reminds me ... what happened to the kid too young to drive who killed those students and archans from Thammasat a couple of months ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palatkik Posted March 27, 2011 Report Share Posted March 27, 2011 Here's the Porche Cayman in question. Will be hard for the maid to own up to stealing it this time since the young punk was already witnessed getting out in his university uniform before locking the doors with the half torso inside. Another payout to the police and relatives should cover it though. http://76.nationchannel.com/playvideo.php?id=142433 Not so easy to for the 16 year old girl who killed a minibus full of academics tho. Their families will be less easily swayed and rightly so. On a lighter note- here's what Clarkson thinks of the Porsche Cayman. riGejPAqNVw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh_Hoy Posted March 27, 2011 Report Share Posted March 27, 2011 Well, the kid might not be more liable for anything more serious than driving without a license...and that would be assuming he was doing so and we have no information regarding that. While he may have been speeding excessively, we do not know that either. And we don't know if the victim stepped out from behind a parked vehicle making it impossible to see the victim in time to stop before hitting her. OK...maybe could be charged with leaving the scene of an accident. But a youngster having a bloody torso uncerimoniously dropped in his/her lap had to be a shock to the system, causing the driver to "freakout" and split the scene. (I'm pretty sure the driver quickly concluded that any medical assistance he could summon would be useless in the matter; wasn't a case of being able to save the victim's life had he stayed put.) That's the problem with many of these stories: they provide only partial or erroneous information and bored board members immediately start fashioning hangin' nooses. HH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunsanuk Posted March 27, 2011 Report Share Posted March 27, 2011 Hi, "and bored board members immediately start fashioning hangin' nooses." Precedent. Almost always these kinds of accidents are caused by reckless and/or drunk and/or underage drivers. And almost inevitable they got off with a slap on the wrist and paying a pittance. Just once I would LOVE to see one of these rich fuckers spend some serious time in prison for his/her crime. Not holding my breath though Sanuk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted March 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2011 Just a guess, but a Bangkok University student? It's out in that area. Lots of kids there from rich families who couldn't get into a top govmt uni and wouldn't think of even going to Ramkhamhaeng with the proles. p.s. Nothing much more in the Thai papers. Too soon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted March 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2011 Channel 3 news says the perp hit the girl with such forced that her body was torn in two. The bottom half fell to the pavement, and her upper torso was thrown through the windscreen. The inside of the car was drenched in blood. The driver sped another 10 km, before he got out and took a taxi. Taxis stop for people covered in blood? The 58-year-old guy admits the driver was his son. Anne, the 17-year-old victim, was crossing the street to help her aunt. Video Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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