PHUKET: A 57-year-old man new to driving escaped severe damage final night time (Dec 10) when he ploughed his new Nissan March right into a shophouse grocery storre in entrance of his home.
Wichit Police had been known as to the scene, on the entrance of the Phuket Villa California housing property, at 7pm.
Police accompanied by Wichit Municipality rescue staff arrived to search out the automobile stopped midway into the grocery store with a metal pole to assist shutters resting within the engine bay. The automobile, fitted with pink license plates, had its emergency lights nonetheless blinking.
Piyaphat Nawee, 57, defined that he had purchased the Nissan March only one month and 5 days in the past. He was nonetheless getting used to driving it.
He was driving again from work when he pulled up in entrance of the store so he might reverse to park his automobile in entrance of his home, which is throughout the road.
As he went to reverse the automobile to park, he realised that the automobile was not in reverse gear and he went to step on the brake. He missed, and hit the accelerator as an alternative, launching the automobile ahead into the store.
He slammed into one the metal assist poles, leading to two metal roller-shutter doorways coming crashing down.
Mr Piyaphat mentioned the accident injury was coated by first-class insurance coverage, and it was confirmed that he had not been ingesting.
The insurance coverage agency is now in negotiations with the proprietor of the shophouse grocery retailer about protecting the damages, he mentioned.
