Cop survives bonnet ride by hit-and-run driver
published : 22 Apr 2020 at 17:20
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Nujaree Rakrun
NAKHON SI THAMMARAT: A traffic policeman survived a two-kilometre-long ride clinging to the bonnet of a car that tried to run him down on Wednesday.
Pol Snr Sgt Maj Montri Nitichai of Tha Sala police station said that he was on his motorcycle, waiting at an intersection at Tha Sala market, when a yellow Mitsubishi car with red licence plates hit the rear of his bike.
The impact was not hard and he got off the bike to talk to the driver, the policeman said. Then the driver accelerated towards him, leading him to jump onto the bonnet. The car then drove for about two kilometres with the policeman hanging on.
At Arthit market, the driver stopped the car suddenly, throwing the policeman off the bonnet. The driver then sped away.
The policeman not see the face of the car driver clearly because the latter was wearing a cap. No one saw the car's licence plate either.
Police would try to identify the driver with surveillance camera footage.
Vocabulary
- accelerate: (of a vehicle or person) to start to go faster -
- bonnet: hood; the metal part over the front of a vehicle, usually covering the engine - ฝากระโปรงห้องเครื่อง
- impact (noun): the force with which one object hits another - แรงกระแทก
- intersection: a place where roads, lines, etc., join or cross each other - สี่แยก
- latter: used for referring to the second of two people, things, or groups that have just been mentioned - อันหลัง,ครึ่งหลัง,ส่วนที่สอง
- licence plate: a flat piece of metal or plastic on the front and back of a vehicle that shows its license number - แผ่นป้ายทะเบียนรถยนต์
- rear: back - ด้านหลัง
- speed away (past: sped away): to move away from something very quickly - ไปด้วยความรวดเร็ว
- surveillance footage: video from a camera that is put in a place to constantly record what happens there - เทปวิดีโอจากกล้องวงจรปิดเพื่อรักษาการความปลอดภัย
- Keywords
- driver
- car
- policeman
- car driver
