Thailand: B10m compo for bus accident victim

[StrontiumDog]

B10m compo for bus accident victim | Bangkok Post: news

B10m compo for bus accident victim

• Published: 8/03/2012 at 09:09 PM
• Online news: Local News

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling ordering a bus company and the Bangkok Mass Transit Authority to pay almost 10 million baht in compensation to the family of a university student killed in an accident involving a faulty bus door.

Piyatida Chotmanas, 21, of ABAC University died 10 days after suffering a serious brain injury when she fell from a No.207 bus which had a defective door that could not be properly closed in 2004.

Witnesses said she fell from the bus when it increased speed along Ramkhamhaeng Road to beat a red light at Lamsalee intersection.

Piyatida’s parents, Nam and Laksana, petitioned the Criminal Court to sue bus driver Thavim Sangdej, 207 Transport Co, the No.207 bus operator, and the BMTA, for 12 million baht for the death of their daughter.

The court agreed with the lower court's decision that Mr Thavim and other defendants were careless and negligent in closing the door as well as failing to fix it despite the fact that public bus doors were intended to provide safety for passengers.

Mr Thavim argued that Piyatida was standing at the door in high-heeled shoes and not holding the handrail as she had books in one hand and a mobile phone, which she was using, in the other, She fell through the door when the bus turned.

However, he failed to convince the court.

The court ordered the defendants to pay the parents 9,856,000 baht in compensation plus annual interest of 7.5 per cent.

[hazz]

8 years to get this far

[Sailing into trouble]

Better than nothing. Civil actions take forever in canada as well. lawyers are lawyers everywhere.

[sabang]

Pardon my cynicism, but I rather doubt the poor girls parents, who were the Plaintiffs in this action, are your average working class somchai's. They normally settle for a cash payout of a million bht or less.

[hazz]

^I will agree with you that the family of this young lady are not your normal working class thai's. It seems to me that they were faced with the insincere apology and the offer of funeral expenses, backed up by the usual 'what your going to do about it, little people'; they have decided that the courts were sufficiently functional for them to get some justice.... as long as they were prepared to fight for an eternity, and kudos for that.

Quite simply, one reason that life is cheap in thailand is that it killing your customers is not much of a finical liability to business, whilst doing things safely. This girls family are doing their bit to correct the anomaly.

[The Master Cool]

Mr Thavim argued that Piyatida was standing at the door in high-heeled shoes and not holding the handrail as she had books in one hand and a mobile phone, which she was using, in the other, She fell through the door when the bus turned.

Standing in a moving vehicle without holding onto something just so you can use your phone.

Idiot.

[BobR]

Mr Thavim argued that Piyatida was standing at the door in high-heeled shoes and not holding the handrail as she had books in one hand and a mobile phone, which she was using, in the other, She fell through the door when the bus turned.

Standing in a moving vehicle without holding onto something just so you can use your phone.
Idiot.

Defense attorneys have been known to lie.

[good2bhappy]

The good thing is that a precedent has been set

[Hampsha]

I may be wrong about this but I believe this happened in front of the mall at WongnamNoi and the girl is the daughter of a politician or high ranking civil servant. There must be a thread here on this from way back.