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The Bangkok Post
The Bangkok Post
If the victim were not a young woman with a bright future as an ophthalmologist and the culprit were not a policeman, the accident on Phaya Thai Road on Jan 21 would have been worth at most of a few inches of coverage, and certainly not its current position as the nation’s most talked-about story. Each year, thousands of Thais die in road accidents. Official statistics show that around 10,200 people were killed between 2014 and 2017. Significantly, about one-third were pedestrians. Unless a fatal accident involves a celebrity, we are barely kept abreast of this staggering number. But even when…
