PUBLISHED: 29 Apr 2024 at 04: 30
A 54-year-old Tokyo traffic officer was killed Sunday when a suspected drunk taxi driver was causing traffic flow for a charity event.
The accident took place at 6am, when Pol Sub Lt Atsada Chamniansri, assistant customers investigator at Bang Khen train, was on duty at the city bus connector in Bang Khen area.
The officer was struck by a vehicle and taken to Bhumibol Adulyadej Hospital, where he later died.
The car driver, identified only as Warabutr, 40, was taken to Bang Khen train for questioning.
He was found to have 287 milligrammes per decilitre ( mg/dL ) of alcohol in his system, which far exceeds the legal alcohol limit of 50 mg/dL.
Initial offenses against him included driving a public transportation vehicle while intoxicated and causing suicide.
Warabutr acknowledged that he was traveling house from drinks with friends in Huai Khwang at the time of the collision. He insisted, however, that he remembered what had happened and that he was n’t drunk.
He claimed that Pol Sub Lt Atsada instantly walked in front of his vehicle as he was passing the picture.
He claimed he made an ineffective attempt to avoid hitting the police officer.
Separately, Pol Snr Sgt Maj Piyanant Sisua, who was critically injured in a car accident in Lop Buri during the Songkran festival, died on Sunday morning, according to the Police General Hospital ( PGH).
The police, who sustained serious head injury from the incident, was moved to the PGH for operation on April 18.
On the night of April 27, his situation deteriorated, and he died early on Sunday from his injury.
When Pol Snr Sgt Maj Piyanant, a bridge officer who was directing transportation, was struck by a delivery truck at 6 p.m. on April 16 in Lop Buri’s Phatthana Nikhom area, the collision occurred.