Chiang Mai teenager killed on brand-new big bike

Chiang Mai teenager killed on brand-new big bike

Surveillance camera footage shows the body of Thanakrit Lasao, 17, after his big bike collided with a car on Chiang Mai-Mae On Road  in San Kamphaeng district of Chiang Mai Tuesday morning. (Screenshot from a video clip posted on the Facebook page of a rescue team in Muang Ton Pao municipality in San Kamphaeng district)
Surveillance camera footage shows the body of Thanakrit Lasao, 17, after his big bike collided with a car on Chiang Mai-Mae On Road in San Kamphaeng district of Chiang Mai Tuesday morning. (Screenshot from a video clip posted on the Facebook page of a rescue team in Muang Ton Pao municipality in San Kamphaeng district)

CHIANG MAI: A high school boy died after slamming his newly-bought big bike into an oncoming car after a van pulled out in front of him in San Kamphaeng district.

The accident happened on Chiang Mai-Mae On Road in tambon San Kamphaeng on Tuesday morning after Thanakrit Lasao, 17, left his house on his new Honda CBR650F motorcycle for San Kamphaeng School.

Surveillance camera footage (below) showed a van suddenly pull onto the middle of the road in front of the big bike. The teenager swerved into oncoming traffic to avoid the van, but almost immediately collided head-on with a Honda City car. The impact sent Thanakrit flying through the air before falling to the tarmac, about one kilometre from his house. Rescue workers rushed him to San Kamphaeng Hospital, where he later succumbed to his injuries.

Media quoted Pokin Tejakhod, the boy's 65-year-old grandfather, as saying that he had promised to buy the boy a big bike if he studied hard. When the boy did so, Mr Pokin delayed the purchase, saying he was worried by previous reports of fatal big bike accidents, but Thanakrit insisted on it.

The grandfather finally bought the bike last week, saying he did not want to disappoint his grandson, whose life had been been difficult following the divorce of his parents.

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