The woman herself and her two sons, aged 12 and two respectively, were in the car at the time of the accident. According to Prasertdi, the younger child was sitting in a child seat next to her, but at some point grabbed the steering wheel and turned it while she was talking to her older son. The woman admitted that she only realized what had happened after the airbag hit.
Additional circumstances surrounding the tragedy raised questions for investigators. It turned out that the driver had removed the memory card from her DVR before the trip, and there was no recording of the crash.
Local authorities said the family of the dead schoolchildren, who were raised by their grandmother without parental support, will receive compensation of at least three million baht (about 7.4 million rubles). Prasertdi said she was ready to pay the elderly woman any amount needed to cover the damages, The Thaiger reported.
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