Pattaya Traffic Police this week are mourning the loss of one of it's senior and most respected officers. Police Lieutenant Pradit aged 55 was due to retire from the Pattaya Police force in a few months time after many years of service to the citizens of Pattaya.
Lieutenant Pradit was slain in a senseless and callous road accident which resulted in catastrophic fatal injuries and as is sadly the norm in Thailand the killer driver doing a runner and not hanging around the scene to face the music
Pattaya police, fellow traffic police officers and a unit of the Sawang Boriboon Thamasathan Rescue Foundation attended the crash which occurred on the Pattaya-bound carriageway of The Sukhumvit Highway between Central and North Pattaya, just before the exit leading to Highway 7. It was a gruesome scene. The police officers Honda Wave motorcycle laying on it's side and close by the body of Lieutenant Pradit. Witnesses to the accident including one of his Traffic Police comrades had seen Black Mitsubishi Pajero crash violently into the rear-end of the officer’s motorbike. The Pajero ran over the officer and then left the scene at high speed.
An alert went out on the police radio frequencies and soon a police unit in Nongkam Police Station in nearby Sriracha District spotted and stopped a vehicle matching the description of the Killer Mitsubishi. The driver, a Thai man whose identity has not yet been revealed was arrested whilst enquiries are made and a forensic team brought in to scrutinise his vehicle which clearly showed fresh damage to the front end.
Having been killed whilst on duty Police Lieutenant Pradit will be bestowed all the ceremonial privileges and his bereaved family taken care of by The Royal Thai Police Force and his stunned colleagues.
