Pattaya Police and a unit of The Sawang Boriboon Rescue Foundation were called to attend a road accident in South Pattaya with reports that there had had been a fatality of a motorcyclist.
At the scene near the entrance to Soi 4 on South Pattaya Road they found a wrecked Honda Scoopy motorcycle and the body of a Thai male aged somewhere between 25 and 35. He didn't carry any ID on him.
Parked up about 159 meters down the road was the garbage truck that according to witnesses had hit the motorcycle from the rear run over the bike and it's rider and driven on a short way down the road before the driver and the garbage workers on the truck did a runner and disappeared.
The body of the deceased motorcyclist was transported to hospital for a full forensic autopsy to be carried out. The police are trying to identify him from the registration details on the bike.
As for the Garbage truck driver the police are aware that these trucks are often manned by illegal aliens who are even more likely than Thai drivers to flee the scene of accidents. This fatality marks the first death to have occurred in Pattaya in a road accident in the Songkran period.
