The video clip showed the fight breaking out, with punches exchanged and one of the drivers being kicked while he was still on the ground before other drivers moved in to separate the two.
The incident spurred more outrage over the violent nature and behaviour of Phuket “public transport drivers”, as officials refer to them, following thug taxi drivers at Bang Tao threatening and intimidating a fully legal taxi driver not from their queue waiting to pick up passengers from in front of a beach club at 2:30am on Saturday (Feb 17).
The incident at Bang Tao on Saturday followed taxi queue drivers near the Maya Beach Club beating a fully legal Grab taxi driver in December.
The attack in December came just one day after Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin visited Phuket to witness tourism safety demonstrations in Patong, at which the prime minister said tourism safety was vital for Phuket’s tourism image.