Woman driver who killed two in Chiang Mai gets suspended sentence, pays damages

[berrec 460]

Um, RIP the two poor souls that had their lives cut short.

 

But when Thailand drivers can kill or be killed at a rate of over 23,000 individuals or more each year there is very little left to say.

 

As my divorce lawyer once said to me in court; if you want justice my son St. Mary's Cathedral is across the road.  

 

This is a courtroom where anything and everything is possible!

 

 

[hotchilli 16,536]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

The accident that saw the death of a well known Thai stylist and her friend in January has been resolved by a court.

Two people dead, but in the end money resolves everything...

I know it can't bring them back but a real punishment might just make people more responsible for their actions!

[wimkuijp 7]

The actual footage:

Edited November 1, 2019 by wimkuijp

[trainman34014 15,149]

1 hour ago, alanrchase said:

Unless she was the wife of a diplomat, then there would be no punishment at all.

Only if she was Coward and skipped the country !

[TKDfella 2,100]

Not much of a deterrent against reckless driving. 

[30la 2,027]

Great! Kill two people and you go home paying alms!
And this is the "LAW"!

[KenKadz 384]

7 hours ago, MadMuhammad said:

It’s not a value of a life, just compensation to place responsibility and ease the pain of loss. Something that happens all over the world.
Why do westerners constantly overthink things here to suit a worn out and boring narrative  

Please explain what is the value of life in Thailand?

[snowgard 643]

4 hours ago, trainman34014 said:

In any developed country it would have been 'Causing death by dangerous driving' and she would most likely recieve a sentence of 5-7 years in Jail for causing the deaths of two innocent people !

Where??? I'm sure you can show us a example in Google!!!

[Duck J Butters 143]

7 hours ago, MadMuhammad said:

It’s not a value of a life, just compensation to place responsibility and ease the pain of loss. Something that happens all over the world.
Why do westerners constantly overthink things here to suit a worn out and boring narrative  

1 million baht is what I make per hour. Literally. 1 million baht is a tiny fine for killing two people. An absolute disgrace! What is to Incentivize people to obey the law when all you have to do is pay a small fine to get out of trouble? I’m well aware that murder in Thailand is a 1 million baht fine ( know of a guy that committed 12 and paid 12 x 1 million baht fines ) but one would think that with a public case like this, they would have set the fine to at least 30 million baht. At least.

[findlay13 776]

Move along folks nothing to see here. Next!

As Dylan said

"Don't it make ya feel ashamed,

 to live in a land,

  Where justice is a game?"

 

Edited November 1, 2019 by findlay13

[Ctkong 738]

Thais believe in karma and they believe everything happened for a reason. When your time is up, somebody got to do the deed. If it is not the young lady, then somebody else. 

[meshborg 89]

Everyone knows Thais never accept blame and only care about money.From government to peasants they all programmed to think this way.

[TallGuyJohninBKK 25,671]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

The Chiang Mai court handed down a three year jail term and 41,000 baht in fines for dangerous driving causing death. 

 

The jail term and fines were reduced by half on admission by the defendant. The prison term was suspended for two years by the court. 

 

After all the dust was settled, are we sure the court didn't actually end up ordering the families of the victims to pay some money to the accused?

 

The way the sentence kept getting cut and cut and cut, it certainly seems it was headed in that direction, if things had gone any further!!!    

[gjoo888 741]

2 hours ago, jaiyen said:

That refers to the size of her brain !

 

Centimeter was the girl killed in the accident. Is it really necessary to make disparaging remarks about her?

[uncleeagle 285]

I wonder what the punishment would have been had a falang done this