Driving licence of ‘DJ Keng’ impounded

Besides the licence seizure, police investigators would look up CCTV footages about the incident and the circumstances leading to it to see if anymore charges such as attempted murder or libel could be filed, acting city police chief Sanit Mahathaworn said. Sanit, who joined the interrogation of Pattarasak yesterday at Bangkok’s Din Daeng Police Station, affirmed that he would ensure justice to both sides. 

One video clip that went viral showed Pattarasak drive his pickup truck in reverse to ram another sedan three times before getting out with a wrench and then telling others that the sedan driver had rammed his truck’s rear. This incident led to Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi suspending Pattarasak from duty on its radio station for his alleged misbehaviour.

Pattarasak yesterday broke into tears calling for justice while apologising to the public, although he insisted that he had not started the brawl. He said they had been trying to overtake one another before reaching the scene. He claimed that the driver made an insulting gesture at him with his finger to which he responded in kind. After this, the driver came out of his sedan to bang his window, which made him reverse his pickup to hit the sedan. 

Meanwhile, Land Transport Department chief Sanit Phromwong yesterday revealed that his office planned to summon Pattarasak to explain himself to initially impose the up-to-one-year suspension of his driver’s licence. He said the office would request police to forward the case information for further probe by the department, which might lead to Pattarasak’s driver’s licence being revoked. 

On the same day, a Thai woman in her 30s filed a police complaint on behalf of her female cousin against a Facebook page’s administrator for capturing the cousin’s Facebook page and calling her the “truck team”. This resulted in many people visiting her page and passing critical comments.