🚗 12 kids drive into a monk! Who's responsible? Easy to understand summary of the law.

🚗 12 kids drive into a monk! Who's responsible? Easy to understand summary of the law.

It became a shocking and social issue when a 12-year-old child secretly took his family's car out to drive, leading to an accident with a monk walking on a roadside alms. This legally does not end with the child, but is involved in the full "parent."

Let's see what sense of legal guilt this case is.

1. Responsibility of the "child" (driver)

In law, a 12-year-old is considered a minor who does not yet have a driving license (and is not yet legally possible).

Criminal offence: Driving into another person to the point of injury is an offence of "reckless conduct causing harm to another person physically or mentally" (or perhaps even serious injury).

Penalty: Because a child is 12 years old (up to 15 years old), according to Penal Code Section 74, the child is not subject to criminal punishment, but the court has the power to impose a warning, send him to a correctional facility, or have his parents take better care.

2. Responsibility of "parent / guardian" (fully hit)

Although children warn or take juvenile measures, in "civil" and "child protection" ways, parents cannot deny responsibility.

Civil liability (damages): According to Code of Commerce Section 429, a parent or caregiver must be held liable for the consequences of a violation committed by the child unless it is proven that he has taken reasonable precautions (in which, in reality, letting the child secretly take the keys to drive is usually considered to be insufficiently cautious), the parents must pay all medical expenses, gifts, and damages.

Child Protection Act: Parents are obliged to prevent the child from engaging in risky or guilty behavior. Neglect may be guilty of the Child Protection Act 2003, punishable by imprisonment for up to 3 months or a fine of up to 30,000 baht or a fine.

3. Offences according to the Land Traffic Act

Consent or neglect to a person who does not have a driving license (as a child) to take a car to drive on a highway. The owner of the car (father) may also be guilty of an offence under the Car Act.

💡 Epilogue parable: "Goodness begins at family responsibility."

This reflects that a single accident could change the lives of many people, both the grace of injury and the child himself with the stigma in mind.

The most important thing is to prevent "keeping the car keys away from the children's hands" and to raise the awareness in the family that the vehicle is not a toy, but the most responsible propulsion.

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