PATTAYA — A foreign female tourist riding in a Bolt car allegedly threw a bottle from the vehicle, injuring a Thai woman on a motorcycle, before hurling a mobile phone and fleeing the scene.
On 19 January 2026, a reporter spoke with Mr. Komsan Sanamkhet, 34, a Bolt driver, about the behaviour of the foreign woman passenger. He said she opened the car window and threw a water bottle that struck a young Thai woman riding a motorcycle near a well-known seafood restaurant in the Jomtien area.
Mr. Komsan said the incident occurred at about 04:00. While he was driving for Bolt, he received a booking and picked up the foreign woman from a lane behind the popular restaurant in Jomtien. After the car reached the beachfront road, the passenger rolled down the window and threw a bottle out of the vehicle, hitting a woman who was riding past on a motorcycle.
He said the foreign woman then told him to keep driving and claimed she would pay 2,000 baht, but he decided to stop the car so that she could speak with the injured woman.
After getting out of the vehicle, the foreign woman became agitated, threw a bottle again and ran towards a songthaew, or shared pickup taxi. She then tried to leave the scene on foot towards Sukhumvit Road. Mr. Komsan said he told her to wait for police, but when she heard him calling officers, she ran into an abandoned building nearby. He and police searched the area but were unable to find her.
Mr. Komsan said he felt deeply upset by the incident, describing the woman’s behaviour as inappropriate.
Later in the morning, he posted about the incident in an online group and learned that a foreign woman had taken a motorcycle taxi from the abandoned building without wearing shoes. The rider reportedly dropped her off in Soi Noen.
The Thai woman who was struck by the bottle has filed a police report at Na Jomtien police station, where the incident has been formally recorded.
