Thawee Kraikupt, father of Palang Pracharath MP Pareena Kraikupt, was involved a car-motorcycle crash in Ratchaburi province that injured a 16-year-old boy on Saturday.
Police were alerted on Saturday afternoon after a car hit a motorcycle at an intersection near a bridge on the Photharam Hospital-Ban Kong Road.
Police were told that the driver had tried to escape so they sent a patrol team to the scene.
They found a Mercedes-Benz e300 with Bangkok licence plates blocked by the rescuers’ pickup truck, 300 metres from the scene.
The driver did not get out of the car. When police talked to him, he repeatedly told them: “I’m Thawee”.
When rescuers, local people and the boy’s mother accused him of trying to escape, he reversed the car and finally got out to see injured boy. Ek, 16, had lacerations on his right ankle and toe.
Mr Thawee agreed to go to the Photharam police station, where he agreed to pay medical bills and repairs to the teenager's bike.
According to the Facebook page of the Sawang Ratchaburi rescue team, which was the first on the scene, Mr Thawee might have been trying to escape before police arrived.
They wrote that while they were applying first aid to the victim and waiting for police, Mr Thawee tried to drive away until he hit a fence at a nearby house and almost hit the rescuers helping the victim.
After that, he turned to where the rescuers' vehicle was parked, blocking his way. He honked the horn for the vehicle to move but police finally arrived.
Mr Thawee, 80, is a former transport minister and Ratchaburi MP. His daughter Pareena has recently been accused of illegally occupying some 700 rai of reform and forest land. She had to return most of it to the Agricultural Land Reform Office.
