Battambang: 26YO Scottish Chris Chris victim of a traffic accident.
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2016 5:30 pm
Child of the owner of Shang Hai guesthouse collides with a foreigner while driving a car.
A Scottish national, just in his 20s, was hit and catapulted several meters (បុកប៉ើងជាច្រើនម៉ែត្រ) by a car. The (driver of the) car, who caused the accident by driving too much on the left side, escaped the scene of the accident leaving the victim unconscious in the middle of the road. In front of Shang Hai guesthouse, which is the family business, the driver completely covered the car and kept quiet pretending to know nothing.
According to several witnesses, in particular motodop drivers, the accident happend on July 15 2016 at 11.10AM in the street of Sovannaphumi (សុវណ្ណភូមិ) school located in Prek Moha Tep village, sangkat Svay Pao, Battambang city/province.
First said witnesses noticed a sugar-colored Toyota Prius (Phnom Penh 2AF-9630) steered by a woman, driving at a very high speed in the direction of the South (coming from the North). At the place of the incident, still at high speed, she turned to the West taking the street of Sovannaphumi (សុវណ្ណភូមិ) school but she turned too much left and collided with the victim who was driving his bicycle in the opposite direction. (coming from the West).
According to the same witnesses the victim was catapulted around 3m. The driver after the car increased her speed and escaped, leaving the victim behind, unconscious and in a pool of blood. In front of the guesthouse she took a plastic and covered the whole car pretending to know nothing. Foreign relatives sent the victim to a hospital (អ៊ីមេចិនស៊ី; Handa Medical Center) for treatment.
The police noticed that the license plate of the car under the cover and the license plate, as noticed by the witnesses, corresponded. Also the windshield of the car was completely broken and showing imprints of the victim's head.
The seriously injured victim was identified as 26YO Scottish Chris Chris. He broke his left clavicle and suffers a fractured skull. Currently the doctors are giving him treatment.
When the police impounded the car and ordered its driver to the office, the family of the driver, particularly the driver's father father, loudly protested in front of the Traffic Police saying that the vehicle didn't escape and that she drove it in front of the guesthouse and just covered it with a plastic. (រថយន្តរបស់គេមិនបានបើករត់នោះទេ គឺគេបើកយកទៅទុកនៅខាងមុខផ្ទះទេតើ ដោយគ្រាន់តែគ្របតង់តែប៉ុណ្ណោះ)