Police guard 104 street racers, including 53 teens aged under 18, following a crackdown in the early hours of Saturday. A team of police officers from several units arrested 104 street racers, including 53 aged below 18, and seized 79 modified motorcycles in a crackdown on dek waen racing at around 2am on Saturday. Two creators of Facebook pages for street racing -- a 16-year-old and Samphan Yaemmeechao, 24 -- were also apprehended in Min Buri district for encouraging people to race on public streets. Pol Col Kamphol Rattanapratheep, chief of Huai Kwang district, said the two had opened the Facebook pages to encourage teenagers to race on public streets. The arrests of the pair brought the number of street racing supporters caught to 59, he added.

Source: Bangkok Post February 10, 2018 08:48 UTC