Car Smashes into 8 People in a Tuktuk in Siem Reap

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Car Smashes into 8 People in a Tuktuk in Siem Reap

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Cambodia News (Siem Reap): On July 26, 2020, at noon, 8 people were injured in a crash between a car and a tuktuk in Snar Dekcho village, Siem Reap.
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On July 27, the police reported that a Highlander car, plate no. SR2B-6316, driven by a 40 year old man, Tea Bunhem, hit a PassApp tuk-tuk plate no. SR1AF-7695, that was driven by a man named Chok Vai, 49 years old, with 7 passengers. The 8 people in the tuk-tuk were injured and sent to the hospital.

After the accident, the car driver ran away to escape. The police checked the accident scene and confiscated the vehicle to keep at the police station in order to sort out the problem following the legal procedure when the driver of the car shows up.
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How sad, but 8 people in a tiny PassApp? presumably the SUV was at fault but still very unsafe numbers in the tiny rickshaw
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:shock: 7 passengers in a passapp tuktuk ?
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Hope they all survived, without any serious injuries.

A traumatic experience for them all I'm sure.
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The driver running away from an accident scene is incomprehensible. Very difficult to understand how one can brazenly ignore and overcome that guilt factor and the motivation to render help when confronted with mangled bodies and crying children.
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Self preservation I think
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numacsys wrote: Tue Jul 28, 2020 7:36 am The driver running away from an accident scene is incomprehensible. Very difficult to understand how one can brazenly ignore and overcome that guilt factor and the motivation to render help when confronted with mangled bodies and crying children.

He's got to run away until he is sober enough to stand on his own.
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numacsys wrote: Tue Jul 28, 2020 7:36 am The driver running away from an accident scene is incomprehensible. Very difficult to understand how one can brazenly ignore and overcome that guilt factor and the motivation to render help when confronted with mangled bodies and crying children.
When the possibility of beaten to death by an angry out of control mob is the alternative, I'm not surprised so many flee the scene of the accident
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jaynewcastle wrote: Wed Jul 29, 2020 12:07 am
numacsys wrote: Tue Jul 28, 2020 7:36 am The driver running away from an accident scene is incomprehensible. Very difficult to understand how one can brazenly ignore and overcome that guilt factor and the motivation to render help when confronted with mangled bodies and crying children.
When the possibility of beaten to death by an angry out of control mob is the alternative, I'm not surprised so many flee the scene of the accident
Are there the angry mobs in Siem Reap, like there are in Phnom Penh?
Always "hope" but never "expect".
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AndyKK wrote: Wed Jul 29, 2020 8:58 am
jaynewcastle wrote: Wed Jul 29, 2020 12:07 am
numacsys wrote: Tue Jul 28, 2020 7:36 am The driver running away from an accident scene is incomprehensible. Very difficult to understand how one can brazenly ignore and overcome that guilt factor and the motivation to render help when confronted with mangled bodies and crying children.
When the possibility of beaten to death by an angry out of control mob is the alternative, I'm not surprised so many flee the scene of the accident
Are there the angry mobs in Siem Reap, like there are in Phnom Penh?
Personally, I wouldn't wait around to find out.
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