Phnom Penh Post - Police chief’s lorry ‘hits man on motorbike’
A 30-year-old man was severely injured this week in a crash in Ratanakkiri’s Banlung town that involved a lorry belonging to the provincial prison chief, according to local authorities.
Police say the man was drunkenly riding his motorbike and arrived at a crossroad where he collided with the speeding lorry.
He was admitted to a local hospital. The lorry sped away but was found later at the provincial prison chief’s house. DEUM AMPIL
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