Highway police seized 29 motorcycles and arrested 27 motorcyclists and four female pillion riders involved in illegal street racing on the Kanchanapisek ringroad early Thursday morning.
The crackdown on the illegal motorcycle racing on the ringroad by the highway police based in Bang Khae followed numerous complaints from residents living near the ringroad about the disturbing loud noises caused by the illegal racers during the wee hours of the night.

Pol Col Chakrit Mongkolsri, superintendent of the 8th sub-division of the highway police, led a team of policemen and volunteers to crack down on the illegal racers who engaged in road racking from kilometer marker 15 of Kanchanapisek ringroad toward Bang Bua Thong.

When the police patrol cars showed up, the racers hurriedly dispersed in different directions with some of them heading in the opposite direction of the traffic flow.

With the help of the volunteers, police managed to intercept several racers as they made a U-turn in front of Phasi Charoen waterworks office.

Police said that riders who are over 18 years old would be charged in the Thon Buri Criminal Court while those below 18 would be charged in the juvenile court.

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