Phnom Penh Post - Road divider again wins against drunk speedster
The age-old battle between street dividers and drunk drivers was joined anew on Tuesday night, as another messed-up motorist mangled his car in the capital.
The obliterated out-of-towner was driving his luxury Lexus down a dimly lit street when he lost control and was brought to an abrupt halt by the hunk of concrete.
The plastered perpetrator and his passenger were both unscathed, but the vehicle was rendered immobile and has since been impounded by police.
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In the drunk tankThe evidence wasn’t the only thing that was staggering when a drunk one-star Military Police general was arrested after ploughing his car into the