University student drowns in car crash ‘after jealous dispute’

Police were alerted of the accident at a ring road around Mahasarakham University in Maha Sarakham province’s Kantharawichai district at 4.30am.
Police said the car driven by Nattapat Booncharnprasert, 20, a second-year student at the university, lost control at a curve and overturned into the roadside canal.
His 21-year-old girlfriend, a third-year student whose name was withheld, was trapped in the front passenger’s seat and drowned.
Nattapat was injured and was transferred to Surtthawej Hospital.
Nattapat told police from his hospital bed that he had been driving home after visiting friends at a boarding house when he and his girlfriend began arguing about a jealous dispute.
He claimed that his girlfriend hit him and he lost control of the car at a curve in the road.