Crash victim wants new car from Bentley driver

The damaged Bentley and overturned Mitsubishi Pajero, right, at the scene after the crash on a Bangkok expressway early on Sunday morning. (Photo: Facebook page of Nichawee Chartsuriyapat)
The damaged Bentley and overturned Mitsubishi Pajero, right, at the scene after the crash on a Bangkok expressway early on Sunday morning. (Photo: Facebook page of Nichawee Chartsuriyapat)

The owner of a brand-new car wrecked by a speeding Bentley wants full compensation from the driver, including a replacement new car.

Nichawee Chartsuriyapat and five other members of her family, one a 4-year-old, were leaving Bangkok in her Mitsubishi Pajero to see her parents in the northeastern province of Bung Kan, she wrote on her Facebook page.

The Pajero was brand new, she said. She had bought the car and took delivery just 21 days before the crash. It was wrecked, and she wanted a brand-new replacement.

Expressway police said the crash happened on the Chaloem Maha Nakhon expressway about 1am on Sunday.

Dashboard video from another vehicle (see below) showed the speeding Bentley in the left lane passing a pickup truck, swerving into the middle lane and then hitting the rear of Ms Nichawee's Pajero, sending it out of control into the path of a fire truck in the right lane with its lights flashing as it headed to a fire.

The wrecked Pajero finished upside down on the road.

Ms Nichawee said the people in her car were injured, but fortunately survived the crash because they were all wearing seatbelts. The Bentley driver had not been breathalysed for alcohol use at the scene of the crash, she said.

Police said on Monday that they had pressed charges against the driver of the Bentley and expected results from alcohol and drug tests on Tuesday.

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Vocabulary

  • brand new: extremely new; the latest version of something that has just been introduced - ใหม่ล่าสุด
  • breathalyser (noun): a device used by the police to measure the amount of alcohol in a driver’s breath - เครื่องวัดปริมาณอัลกอฮอล์จากลมหายใจ
  • dashboard: the part of the car in front of the driver that the steering wheel of a car is attached to; front console; control panel - แผงหน้าปัดรถยนต์, แผงหน้าปัด
  • injured (adj): hurt in an accident, natural disaster, attack, etc. - ได้รับบาดเจ็บ
  • press charges: to accuse someone officially of committing a crime - ตั้งข้อกล่าวหา
  • replacement: someone or something that takes the place of another - ผู้การทำหน้าที่แทน, การทำหน้าที่แทน
  • seatbelt: a safety belt used in a car or plane to hold you in your seat in case of an accident - เข็มขัดนิรภัย
  • swerve: to change directions suddenly - เปลี่ยนทิศทาง
  • wrecked: damaged or destroyed - ถูกทำลาย
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