Wichai Tuengjeamsri tries to explain to police what happened.
Boonlua Chatree
A pregnant woman and her unborn child were killed
when a pickup truck driver trying to beat a red light smashed into her
Honda motorbike at a central Pattaya intersection.
Sunan Srisawang, 29, died instantly when Wichai
Tuengjeamsri, 38, lost control of his Mitsubishi Titan, sending it
barreling into her Honda Click and two other cars. She had been seven
months pregnant.
Wichai was arrested and charged with injury-causing
reckless driving in the Sept. 1 accident near the Big C Extra
supermarket on Central Road.
Wichai told police he had just dropped off his niece
and wife for shopping and was driving home toward Sukhumvit Road when he
sped up to beat the signal at Soi Yume. As he did, he lost control of
the truck. The vehicle plowed into traffic waiting at the red light,
killing Sunan and damaging a taxi and a Mercedes-Benz sedan.
