Smitthiphat Leenawarat’s Legal Battle: The Pathum Thani Road Rage Saga Unfolds

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The sun had barely reached its zenith on a past Wednesday when the Bangkok eastern outer ring road in Pathum Thani turned into a theater of chaos, a vivid illustration of road rage immortalized by a snapshot from a dash cam video. At the heart of this turbulence was Smitthiphat Leenawarat, an intense young man at the tender age of 28, guiding his BMW into a saga he would probably rather forget. As he now faces the consequences of this fateful day, the charges against him have started to unravel a complex web of legal woes. The Pathum Thani roads, it seems, have seen better days.

The atmosphere within the Lam Luk Ka police station was tense on Friday evening, as Mr. Smitthiphat and his loyal legal counsel took deliberate steps into the lion’s den to formally acknowledge the numerous charges. A litany of offenses awaited him: assault causing bodily or mental harm, assault causing serious bodily harm, property damage, and reckless driving. Pol Col Thiradet Chanlad, the superintendent of station, was at the forefront, making it known that the scales of justice would weigh heavily upon the young driver.

But that wasn’t all. As if the script couldn’t add more intrigue, there was a looming specter of document forgery. The investigators had found themselves ensnared in a mystery as sinister as a shadow creeping through the alleyways at midnight. The absence of registration documents for the BMW’s crimson license plate in the Department of Land Transportation database raised eyebrows – indeed, a red flag waving in the wind of Mr. Smitthiphat’s defense. And so, as the BMW sat impounded, waiting under the indifferent eye of the law, the plot thickened.

Temporary release was granted to Mr. Smitthiphat, a silver lining as he had presented himself voluntarily at the police station, a gesture of good faith perhaps, or simply a pause in his unfolding drama. Earlier, a collision had disrupted the lives of 65-year-old Prachak Duangyai and his wife Somsri, 64, as Mr. Smitthiphat’s BMW sideswiped their steadfast pickup truck, plunging them into a nightmare of broken ribs and hospital care. The harrowing news of Mr. Prachak’s six broken ribs made headlines, while his wife’s condition remained shrouded in uncertainty.

Friday welcomed a more personal disclosure, as Mr. Smitthiphat took to the airwaves in a televised appearance with his father, who carried with him the vestiges of his past role as mayor of the Thanyaburi subdistrict municipality. A father-son duo seated against the blaring lights of a television studio, navigating their version of truth, they recounted the incident from their perspective. Mr. Smitthiphat spoke with a voice laced with regret, explaining how, in an unguarded moment following a toll gate, he had unintentionally tangled lanes with the pickup truck, a misjudgment at 80-100 kilometers per hour.

The ensuing narrative painted an image of misfortune – a suddenly intrusive pickup, an unsuspecting road barrier, and Mr. Smitthiphat’s desperate grasping for an unseen item as his car collided anew. Though he left the identity of the retrieved item to the imagination, his intention was clear: it was all a terrible accident. With sincerity tinged with poignancy, he pledged to shoulder the medical expenses and extend financial aid, like a knight confessing his ungainly duel, uttering words of sorrow, “I deeply regret the accident and had no intention of injuring the victims.”

And as the curtain lowers, one final act unfolds – a slap on the wrist: the 6,000 baht fine for driving with an expired license, a mundane though necessary conclusion to the day’s theatrics imposed by the vigilant highway police.

Thus, the roads of Pathum Thani cradle another story, another lesson in the pages of driving caution and the gravity of unforeseen events on a seemingly uneventful day.