Taxi driver falls to death from elevated expressway
A taxi driver fell to his death from the Bang Plee-Suksawat elevated expressway after he apparently tried to traverse the gap between two roads.
The body of Supit Khotphan, 50, was spotted yesterday morning under the Bang Plee-Suksawat expressway in Samut Prakan’s Muang district at about 8:30am.
Police believe he ran out of gas as his taxi was about to reach the Srinakarin exit so he decided to climb over the gap to make a phone call to expressway officials and he apparently fell while he was climbing back.
Manee Naneraksa, the driver of a tow-truck, said he was informed at 11.30pm on Monday night that a taxi driver had used an emergency phone on the expressway to call for help after he ran out of gas.
Manee said he went to the spot and found the taxi but not the driver. He said he thought the driver might have received a lift to buy petrol so he left the scene.
But in the morning, he found the same taxi parked at the same spot so he towed it one side of the expressway to avoid an accident.
