Prosecutors will right now determine whether or not to indict a police officer who fatally struck a pedestrian whereas riding a Ducati bike at velocity. Norawich Buadokw was off responsibility and driving the un-licenced superbike when he hit Bangkok ophthalmologist Dr Waraluck Supawatjariyakul on a pedestrian crossing. The incident happened on Phaya Thai Road within the Ratchathewi district of the capital on January 21.
Norawich has been charged with the death of Dr Waraluck and later at present, prosecutors will maintain a press convention to announce their choice on whether he’ll stand trial. The Bangkok Post reports that the police officer’s attendance is required at the briefing. He faces 9 expenses, together with reckless driving inflicting dying and riding a motorbike without a licence plate.
The dying of Dr Waraluck as she was using a zebra crossing prompted outrage across the country and resulted in a rush to enhance the safety of Thailand’s pedestrian crossings, all too often ignored by highway customers. Anupong Paojinda from the Interior Ministry says several provinces have launched consciousness campaigns. Some emphasise the need to enforce the velocity limit round schools and hospitals and in residential communities. Billion contain re-painting pedestrian crossings and making pace indicators extra visible to motorists.
Anupong says the campaigns purpose to forestall any more accidents similar to that which killed Dr Waraluck, adding that many others have been left completely disabled by related incidents. He says that while public awareness is important, the authorities also have to enforce existing traffic legal guidelines and dish out the hardest punishments to those who break them.
Meanwhile, less than a month after Dr Waraluck’s dying, a public bus struck a motorcycle rider who had stopped at a zebra crossing to allow pedestrians to cross. That incident occurred on February 14 in Bangkok and the 37 year old motorbike driver was rushed to hospital with critical again injuries. The bus driver has been charged with reckless driving causing injury..