By Thai Newsroom Reporters MOVE FORWARD MP-DESIGNATE Natheepat Kulsethasit today (May 16) has become the first elected lawmaker to pronounce resignation after a single day of jubilation to take accountability for a drunk driving charge filed against her. The MP-designate female, known for taking part in gender equality wedding activism, has relinquished her MP
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Training launched to help drivers to get their points back
DRIVERS keen on getting some or all of their 12 points back before they are restored annually may now enroll for training and take a test to do so, Naewna newspaper said today (Mar. 6). Ms. Ratchada Thanadirek, deputy spokesperson for the Prime Minister’s Office, reminded drivers that under the driving penalty points system
Read moreDriving instructor surrenders after killing highway policeman
A DRIVING instructor who fled in fear after his sedan hit and killed a motorcycle-riding highway policeman on Bang Pa-in-Bang Phli stretch of Kanchanapisek expressway has now surrendered to police, Thai Rath newspaper said today (Feb. 24). Killed in the crash that occurred at 4.30 p.m. yesterday was Pol. Sgt. Setthakan Loykhampom after he
Read moreForeign tourist seen driving on the wrong side of the road in Chiang Mai
ATTRACTING critical comments is a video clip that had been shared by a Facebook member showing a foreign tourist driving on the wrong side of a road that winds up and down a hill in Chiang Mai province and only switching to the left lane after almost hitting a motorcyclist, Amarin TV said today
Read moreTrailer-truck disappears while driver takes a shower
PUZZLED by the disappearance of a 22-wheel trailer-truck was its driver who was later informed by local residents that it had flipped over by the roadside a kilometre away but he insists he pulled the handbrake before stepping out, Matichon newspaper said today (Apr. 23). Mr. Singto Khlainoi, 20, a native of Nakhon Ratchasima
Read moreCocaine use charge against Red Bull heir expiring this year
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL has issued a statement expressing concern that the statute of limitations on cocaine use charge against Red Bull heir Vorayuth “Boss” Yoovidhya, who is wanted in a hit-and-run incident that led to a policeman’s death in Bangkok on September 3, 2012, expires on September 3 this year and it will no longer
Read moreAustralian slapped with charges for wrong-way driving over 30 kms
AN AUSTRALIAN man who faces charges for wrong-way driving his sedan over 30 kilometres from Chonburi to Rayong said he had got lost and after that the GPS system took him the wrong way, Sanook.com said today (Jan. 16). Police began investigating this incident after a video clip of a black Ford Mustang going
Read moreDrunk woman slaps policeman with her shoe in New Year’s eve drama
AN intoxicated woman who drove the wrong way down Lum Luk Ka road on New Year’s eve and then slapped policeman with her shoe faces four charges, Matichon newspaper and Sanook.com said today (Jan. 8) Khu Khot police station released details of this case after a video clip of the woman slapping the policeman’s face
Read moreStar in car crash got ‘general’ dad to threaten police station
A POPULAR Thai star who hit another vehicle while driving drunk early this morning (Sept. 8) got a man who claimed to be his father and a general in the army to threaten the policeman, who tried to get him take a breathalyzer test, that he would transfer the whole station, Siam Rath newspaper reported.
Read moreDrunk woman injures many people during hour-long wild drive
A DRUNK woman who had lost millions in a business swindle hit a couple of cars and some motorcycles while injuring many people during a hour-long drunk driving spree from Khae Rai intersection in Nonthaburi province to Rama 6 road from 11 p.m. to midnight last night, INN News reported today (August 12, 2020). Ms.
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