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A BRITISH EXPAT and a Thai are in hospital and a Thai woman is dead after a serious mishap at 4am today on the central road between Phuket City and Kathu.
Travelling on the newly widened and resurfaced road from Phuket City, a Honda City saloon being driven by the expat man crossed to the wrong side of the road and smacked into the Thai woman's car.
Police Lieutenant Angkan Yasanop, of Tungtong police station, said he was told the woman had seen the man's car coming and had almost come to a stop when his car hit her Toyota saloon at high speed.
Lieutenant Angkan said that witnesses thought the woman was hoping that the oncoming car would avoid her if she was stationary.
The crash came on the first hill of the newly surfaced Wichitsongkran Road, which runs past the Central Festival mall to Kathu.
On the downward side, apparently at high speed, the car driven by the British man failed to take a left-hand bend and crashed through shrubs on the central median strip.
The expat driver of the car is in a satisfactory condition in Phuket International Hospital.
The Thai man who was a passenger in the vehicle, and who suffered the brunt of the mishap, is reported by doctors to be in a serious condition.
Police are anxious to question both men as soon as possible.
The dead woman was later named as Panida Choichakul, 29, a resident of Kamala.
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Will the British EXPAT compensate the dead Thai woman's family? Would he be jailed and fined?? Trouble makers the whole lot of them, these Western EXPATS. Just because they come to these parts, they think they can behave as they please.
Editor: The answer, whoever you are, is that Thai justice will be done. To blame all Western expats for an event involving just one is illogical and inflammatory. For all we know, there may have been a mechanical problem, or perhaps the driver had a heart attack. Who are you to judge? Perhaps you might care to put a name to your next comment.
Posted by Anonymous on July 29, 2009 15:24