Rear-ended Rolls-Royce owner wants compensation

A screenshot from a video shows the B32 million Rolls-Royce Ghost stopped on Highway 7 after being rear-ended by an Isuzu pickup truck in Chachoengsao province on Sunday. (Photo supplied)
A screenshot from a video shows the B32 million Rolls-Royce Ghost stopped on Highway 7 after being rear-ended by an Isuzu pickup truck in Chachoengsao province on Sunday. (Photo supplied)

The owner of a 32-million-baht Rolls-Royce has denied reports she agreed to let off the pickup driver who rear-ended her car, causing damage estimated at one million baht.

She is seeking compensation.

Sun Yuhan, 38, a Chinese woman, was driving when her Rolls-Royce was rear-ended on Highway 7 in Chachoengsao on Sunday afternoon by an Isuzu pickup truck. There were no injuries in the accident.

Her lawyer said his client owned restaurants in Bangkok and Pattaya. She was driving the car alone to Bangkok when the accident occurred.

Both vehicles parked after the accident. She attempted to talk with the pickup truck driver.

"As she can't speak Thai, she gestured with her hands for him to meet her later at the garage she was heading to," the lawyer said.

"Due to miscommunication, the other side did not show up. She denies reports that she was not bothered by the accident," the lawyer said.

He said the Rolls-Royce was covered by first-class insurance. However, the Chinese woman stood firm in saying she was not at fault, so she filed a complaint with police and asked that they call in the pickup truck driver and charge him.

She denied reports that she had braked abruptly before the accident. The damage to the rear of her car was estimated at slightly over one million baht.

Police said the pickup driver did not attempt to flee and would report to police as ordered. Police would examine surveillance camera footage from the highway.

The driver of the Isuzu pickup was identified only as Pongthep, aged 23. The man was quoted as saying that he and the woman talked through a translation app, and that he understood her to say she was not bothered by the accident.

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Vocabulary

  • abruptly: suddenly and unexpectedly, and often unpleasant - อย่างกะทันหัน
  • attempt (noun): when a person tries to do something or achieve some goal, makes an effort to do it - ความพยายาม
  • bothered: worried, angry or sad about something   - วิตกกังวล หงุดหงิด
  • client: a customer or someone who receives services of a lawyer - ลูกความ
  • compensation: money that someone receives because something bad has happened to them - เงินชดเชย
  • flee: to leave a place or person quickly because you are afraid of possible danger - หนี อพยพ
  • garage: a place where vehicles are repaired - อู่ซ่อมรถ
  • gesture (verb): to move your hands, head, face, etc. as a way of expressing what you mean or want - แสดงท่าทาง
  • insurance: an arrangement in which you regularly pay an insurance company an amount of money so that they will give you money if something you own is damaged, lost, or stolen, or if you die or are ill or injured - การประกัน
  • miscommunication: failure to communicate ideas or intentions successfully -
  • rear-ended: hit from behind -
  • show up: to arrive at a place - แสดงตัว, ปรากฏตัว
  • surveillance footage: video from a camera that is put in a place to constantly record what happens there - เทปวิดีโอจากกล้องวงจรปิดเพื่อรักษาการความปลอดภัย
  • translation (noun): words that have been changed from one language to another; the process of changing something that is written or spoken into another language - การแปล, การแปลเอกสาร การแปลโดยทั่วไป
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