"zebra crossing"

Independent Bangkok gubernatorial candidate Sakoltee Phattiyakul aims to make zebra crossings safer for pedestrians while improving traffic lights at these spots if he is elected governor, he said while campaigning in Bang Kho Laem district on Tuesday.

A police lance corporal, who was sentenced to slightly over a year in jail for a fatal road accident while riding a bike, was released on bail on Monday after he appealed against the verdict.

The police lance corporal who ran over a doctor as she was crossing the road will be fired, the Royal Thai Police announced on Monday.

A police lance corporal was sentenced to one year and 15 days in jail on Monday for ramming his Ducati motorbike into a doctor at Bangkok zebra crossing in January.

The Office of the Attorney-General (OAG) on Tuesday laid nine charges against Pol Lance Corporal Norawit Buadok over the killing of a doctor on a Bangkok pedestrian crossing last month.

The parents of an eye doctor on Thursday filed a civil lawsuit against the Royal Thai Police and a junior policeman, demanding compensation of Bt72 million for her death caused by the cop at a Bangkok zebra crossing.

Provincial governors will organise a week of road safety awareness from February 21 to 25 under the theme “Campaign to prevent accidents at zebra crossings”.

The idea of 3D-zebra crossings went viral among netizens after a doctor was fatally hit by a police lance corporal’s big bike as she was crossing a road in Bangkok on January 21.

The dangers of Thailand’s pedestrian crossings were illustrated again on Thursday, one week after a doctor was killed as she walked on a Bangkok zebra crossing.

The death caused an internet uproar and widespread condemnation of the officer.

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The National Office of Buddhism said on Tuesday that the policeman who hit and fatally injured a doctor at a zebra crossing in Bangkok could not be ordained as a Buddhist monk.