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Thai hit-and-run driver to be extradited to US

Pol Gen Surachate Hakparn, left, introduces Tubtim Howson, 57, right, at Wednesday’s press conference. She is being returned to the United States for trial over a hit-run in Oakland on Jan 1, when a 22-year-old man was killed. (Police photo)

A 57-year-old Thai woman driver wanted for a fatal hit-and-run in the United States on Jan 1 has been arrested by police in Ratchaburi and will be extradited for trial, police said.

Pol Gen Surachate Hakparn, deputy commissioner-general of the Royal Thai Police Office, said on Wednesday that Tubtim Howson, 57, had returned to Thailand on Jan 5 and stayed in Chon Buri.

After her Jan 1 accident in Oakland, California, made headlines, she moved to a room in Suan Phuen district of Ratchaburi on…

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