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Owner of Porsche involved in fatal accident identified
Published: 27/03/2011 at 12:00 AM
Bangkok Post: Newspaper section: News
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.
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.
Mr Suppachai told police the driver would surrender to police after he returns from a trip to pay homage to his ancestors during the Cheng Meng festival.
Police said they did not know the relationship between Mr Suppachai and the driver of the Porsche.
The teenager was hit by the Porsche, which has red number plates, 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.
She is entitled to seek up to 200,000 baht compensation from the owner of the Porsche.
The incident comes three months after a Honda, driven by a 16-year-old girl, crashed into a van killing nine people.
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Strange story, so the driver first wants to go party before going to the police, after driving 10 km with a torso in his lap? screwy a lot.
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Just another case of the rich Hiso being above the law in Thailand,no doubt the Laos girls family will be paid off ( 200,000 baht ??? Life is so cheap here in Thailand ) and the Police will sweep the paperwork under the carpet.The real shocker for me when I saw this on the Thai news, the the driver drove 10k with the girls upper torso in the passenger seat after coming through the windscreen .What an evil sick **** steamingMad
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Strange story, so the driver first wants to go party before going to the police, after driving 10 km with a torso in his lap? screwy a lot.
Horrible story I think, pity on the victim and also think about the driver himself he must have been really in shock and didn't knew what to do, the body was there, he should have stopped but you can't really understand what passed in his mind at the moment.
One thing for sure, he should have stopped and he probably was driving very fast with his sport car, I can't really find any justification for his behaviour but I see these kind of drivers passing IN THE CITY every day, I can't understand how they feel so confident to drive so fast in small soi/streets or even on the main street...just a small mistake of a motorbike or a car can be fatally for both sides.
Drive safety and look at the road.
I think the driver's ability to control the car is getting much smaller if drive over than 100kms/hour.
sawadi
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As we live in Thailand I will give you the average Thais prospective ( my wife ) of this accident .She said to me " when you die ,you die,200k OK ,its when you not die then you have problems,takes a lot of money to take care" :blink:
A local lad from a Chinese family was racing his car a while back and killed to young boys on their way to school,the family paid 100k to each family and driver became a monk for 2 months to contemplate what he had done.No case was ever brought against the driver.....T.I.T :wacko:
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One thing for sure, he should have stopped and he probably was driving very fast with his sport car, I can't really find any justification for his behaviour but I see these kind of drivers passing IN THE CITY every day, I can't understand how they feel so confident to drive so fast in small soi/streets or even on the main street...just a small mistake of a motorbike or a car can be fatally for both sides.
Drive safety and look at the road.
I think the driver's ability to control the car is getting much smaller if drive over than 100kms/hour.
sawadi
After watching a video off the internet ( far to shocking to post here :ohmy: )of where the accident took place and the video's shots of the girls body in and being taken out of the Porsche ,I could understand how the driver could have been in total shock.The accident happened on a very fast section of 2 line motorway with the large grass verge in-between.As most Western members would agree,most Motorways in our homelands are constructed in a way not to let pedestrians onto the motorways. I an not sticking up for the driver and agree with Admin that the driver should have stopped and may well have been speeding smilenod
Its obvious that the driver has been sent away for a while whist things are sorted out by families and Police involved,in the west an Arrest Warrant would be put out immediately but this is not the case here in Thailand as Hiso criminal always keep their word and will hand themselves in ::)
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Yes, Boloa, the warrent paper will be issued on Monday only................. confused4
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Strange story, so the driver first wants to go party before going to the police, after driving 10 km with a torso in his lap? screwy a lot.
Not a party, den Buut; paying respect to one's ancestors at Ching Ming is a duty in a traditional Chinese family. That clarified, I agree with all the comments made above. Hiso Chinese do not treat the lives of ordinary people as of any account; a Hong Kong example was the young man who hit a policeman at a roadblock and dragged him under the car for a mile or so, killing him of course. The young man was given 4 years in prison; his father, Daecon Chu, said, "But it was only a car accident!"
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Not a party, den Buut; paying respect to one's ancestors at Ching Ming is a duty in a traditional Chinese family.
Ching Ming or Grave-Sweeping Day is observed on April 5. ( http://www.chcp.org/chingming.html (http://www.chcp.org/chingming.html) )
I'm sure the Flights and hotel were booked weeks ago ::) ::)
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Strange story, so the driver first wants to go party before going to the police, after driving 10 km with a torso in his lap? screwy a lot.
Not a party, den Buut; paying respect to one's ancestors at Ching Ming is a duty in a traditional Chinese family. That clarified, I agree with all the comments made above. Hiso Chinese do not treat the lives of ordinary people as of any account; a Hong Kong example was the young man who hit a policeman at a roadblock and dragged him under the car for a mile or so, killing him of course. The young man was given 4 years in prison; his father, Daecon Chu, said, "But it was only a car accident!"
So he has a 10 day party and then he's gonna pay RESPECT, I stand by my first comment screwy
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The boy driver reported to the police yesterday.
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The boy driver reported to the police yesterday.
This has been an embarrassment for the drivers and his family from the start,lies after lies. For the car being stolen,the boy is away for a religious trip ,too I was only going 120k.Yes the lad has handed himself in and apologized to the girls family but only under huge public pressure ,maybe he and his family can start to apologize for all the lies they have told !!!!
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I feel sorry for Thailand and its system. That's how things like this can happen really.
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This was in the "Auto" section of today's Bangkok Post :blink:
http://www.bangkokpost.com/auto/autopreview/228961/porsche-to-die-for (http://www.bangkokpost.com/auto/autopreview/228961/porsche-to-die-for)
Doesn't anybody proof read this paper first :wacko: loco
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icon_latest now been changed to "Porsche with good value" whistle
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The boy driver reported to the police yesterday.
This has been an embarrassment for the drivers and his family from the start,lies after lies. For the car being stolen,the boy is away for a religious trip ,too I was only going 120k.Yes the lad has handed himself in and apologized to the girls family but only under huge public pressure ,maybe he and his family can start to apologize for all the lies they have told !!!!
The whole fcuking episode stinks from start to finish
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Porsche driver at funeral
The teenage driver of a Porsche involved in the death of a 17-year-old Lao girl has apologised and agreed to pay 350,000 baht aid money to the victim's family.
Peerapol Thaksinthaweesap, 19, a first-year Rangsit University student, yesterday attended the funeral of Kambai Inthilat at Sai Noi Temple in Nonthaburi province.
Kambai was crossing the Pathum Thani-Bang Bua Thong Road last Friday afternoon when a Porsche driven by Mr Peerapol slammed into her, cutting her body in half with her torso coming to rest on the seat beside the driver.
The white Porsche Cayman belongs to his father, Suppachai Thaksinthaweesap.
"I really didn't want the accident to occur," Mr Peerapol told the dead girl's mother, Ulai Borchue, 35, a Lao national, as he gave her a deep wai as a gesture of apology.
Mrs Ulai replied: "I forgive you. Don't worry."
Both broke into tears as they hugged each other.
Mr Peerapol surrendered to Pathum Thani police on Sunday to face reckless driving and hit-and-run charges.
Mr Peerapol has paid 300,000 baht aid money to Mrs Ulai and another 50,000 baht to cover funeral expenses.
An insurance company will also pay 200,000-baht compensation to the victim's family.
Saddened by the death of her teenage daughter, Mrs Ulai said she won't let her children come to a big city in Thailand anymore.
Mrs Ulai has four children. Kambai was her second child.
"Kambai was a first-year student at her secondary school in Vientiane. She was a smart student and also a school athlete," the mother said.
She had always hoped that Kambai could grow up to help her run the family.
Mrs Ulai is the breadwinner of her family.
Her husband, a former construction worker, was left disabled after a heavy metal bar fell on his leg.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/229367/porsche-driver-at-funeral (http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/229367/porsche-driver-at-funeral)
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A sad story and I almost hesitate to say that the Thai has acted with a decree of decorum (after the initial apparent 'shock').
Many will have followed this story on Thai Visa where there are nearly 500 posts - most focused on how wealth privilege allows you to evade the process of law, etc. (such that it is in Thailand.
In this case it looks as if the boy/family have responded appropriately - attending the funeral, covering the cost, paying compensation, APOLOGISING. The cynic in me says that the motivation for this may well be to avoid a jail sentence but the apparent show of remorse and financial support has to be viewed positively.
If the mother can forgive him what right do we have to judge more harshly.
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Yes as we all know Ray that's the way its done out here.I tried to explain western justice to my wife the other night but it just didn't comprehend.She has been taught ( brainwashed ) that money we always be number one ,with money comes power,power to kill and get away with it,.....TIT....!!!
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I would imagine that the Porsche had full Class 1 insurance. With that there is always a 1 million baht cover for death of an individual. So why is there a suggestion that only 200,000bt will be paid out. There is also death cover from the compulsory insurance.
What a pity the Mother does not seek legal advice - or more relevantly someone doesn't offer it!
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Will they pay out if the 'driver'doesn't hold a licence??
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Will they pay out if the 'driver'doesn't hold a licence??
Are you saying he doesn't have one Nookie :ohmy:
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Will they pay out if the 'driver'doesn't hold a licence??
Are you saying he doesn't have one Nookie :ohmy:
Have you seen anywhere where it says he does??
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He must have a driving license and the reason they do not mention this fact is probably because its not the issue in this case.
You can't really judge the Thai mentality on this matter I believe it come for the good side of both families, What would help if the guy will be in prison and the family will have to keep follow the story and go to court with anger and hate same it will be in the 'western' world we are coming from....
Don't you think mercy and forgiveness is a great thing among humans?
The driver will pay the price of this terrible incident/accident for the end of his life.
To read and cry.
No winners here. Only losers in this story and I admire the family for this decision they made.
They must be very strong and brave people to act this way.
sawadi
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He must have a driving license and the reason they do not mention this fact is probably because its not the issue in this case.
You can't really judge the Thai mentality on this matter I believe it come for the good side of both families, What would help if the guy will be in prison and the family will have to keep follow the story and go to court with anger and hate same it will be in the 'western' world we are coming from....
Don't you think mercy and forgiveness is a great thing among humans?
The driver will pay the price of this terrible incident/accident for the end of his life.
To read and cry.
No winners here. Only losers in this story and I admire the family for this decision they made.
They must be very strong and brave people to act this way.
sawadi
You cannot take anything for granted here in Thailand
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He must have a driving license and the reason they do not mention this fact is probably because its not the issue in this case.
You can't really judge the Thai mentality on this matter I believe it come for the good side of both families, What would help if the guy will be in prison and the family will have to keep follow the story and go to court with anger and hate same it will be in the 'western' world we are coming from....
Don't you think mercy and forgiveness is a great thing among humans?
The driver will pay the price of this terrible incident/accident for the end of his life.
To read and cry.
No winners here. Only losers in this story and I admire the family for this decision they made.
They must be very strong and brave people to act this way.
sawadi
So are you saying most westerners have been brainwashed in seeking judicial punishment for wrongdoers.If we all turned the other check what a crazy place this world would be,a free for all were karma is law loco :wacko:....I don't think so !!! :P
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By his own admission, he was speeding. Experts could calculate whether he was doing 120km/hr as he said, or whether a much greater speed would be required to cut the girls body in two.. No such investigations are likely here in Thailand. But whatever, he was speeding - he broke the law and in the process he killed another human being. He deserves to be punished. 350,000bt is probably just pocket money to the family, considering the Porsche is reputed to have cost 10 million baht. And how many other cars do they possess, I wonder.!
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Almog,It's about time you started to live in the real world!!!
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Almog makes a good point about mercy and forgiveness.
Was this accident 100% the fault of the driver. Perhaps, perhaps not - we will never know.
However, the fact remains that there are laws about dangerous driving, manslaughter etc. I do not have enough knowledge about Thai laws and. like many, put a Western perspective on punishment being relative to the crime.
If the Thai rule of law is that imprisonment follows conviction for any offence committed in this case, then so be it. I suspect that money (and other factors) will ensure that, in this case, the boy does not see the inside of a prison cell. It is not my position to make judgement on that.
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Agree not judgement CC, but comment yes.
Thai rule of law is sadly different -very different - from Thai Law, which in most cases follows English Law.
Wouldn't it be great if one of the larger legal firms who advertise on the various forums, took it upon themselves to obtain the correct benefits for the girls family. The publicity they would gain would far outweigh their costs
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Porsche driver at funeral
Mr Peerapol surrendered to Pathum Thani police on Sunday to face reckless driving and hit-and-run charges.
What about manslaughter charges?
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Almog makes a good point about mercy and forgiveness.
Was this accident 100% the fault of the driver. Perhaps, perhaps not - we will never know.
However, the fact remains that there are laws about dangerous driving, manslaughter etc. I do not have enough knowledge about Thai laws and. like many, put a Western perspective on punishment being relative to the crime.
If the Thai rule of law is that imprisonment follows conviction for any offence committed in this case, then so be it. I suspect that money (and other factors) will ensure that, in this case, the boy does not see the inside of a prison cell. It is not my position to make judgement on that.
Yes Ray I'm all for a bit of mercy and forgiveness and would even go as far as to stay this was a grave accident ( initially ).But the facts are the owner of the car lied about the car being stolen and the driver driving 10k making a few phone calls,locking up the car with 1/2 the girls body inside and getting a cab home.
If the owner and driver get away without being punished this can only prove to the people of Thailand that there is not such thing a justice.!!!
( as if they don't know this already whistle )