Police are looking for the
driver of this vehicle for questioning in
the road death of a woman motorcyclist
who was driving
against traffic on Sukhumvit Road last week.
Boonlua Chatree
A woman driving the wrong way on Sukhumvit Road was killed
when her motorbike was hit head-on by a pickup truck.
The unidentified woman, aged between 18 and 25, suffered
catastrophic wounds early July 12 and was pronounced dead at the accident scene
near the U-turn in front of the Chonburi Pest Management Center at kilometer
marker 149.
Baht bus driver Chalerm Homjit said he’d spoken to the woman
only moments before her fatal accident to give her directions to Soi Kophai. The
60-year-old remembered distinctly advising the woman not to drive against
traffic on Sukhumvit, but she did so anyway and was hit at the U-turn by a
bronze Mitsubishi Strada.
The pickup’s driver fled the scene and police impounded the
truck while they pursue its driver for possible prosecution.
