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The Bangkok Post
The Bangkok Post
The tragic death of Dr Waraluck Supawatjariyakul, an ophthalmologist with Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Medicine, who was hit by a powerful big bike as she was negotiating a zebra crossing in January highlights a sad fact about the danger pedestrians face in their everyday lives. Apart from the recklessness of the motorcyclist who is also a police officer, the traffic system that gives priority to motorists, not pedestrians, is to blame for the ophthalmologist’s premature death. The policeman who ran over the pedestrian at a zebra crossing in Bangkok three months ago has been sentenced…
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