Minivan, bus and road accidents

[Nereus]

Red tape, loud music blamed for fatal train-bus crash

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general ... -bus-crash

Officials on Monday blamed Sunday’s fatal collision of a train and double-decker bus in Nakhon Pathom province Sunday on red tape and loud music.

Deputy Transport Minister Ormsin Chivapruck said on Monday that the crash occurred at a grade crossing where the Department of Rural Roads had installed automatic barriers, but they were inoperative because the department had yet to deliver completed paperwork to the State Railway of Thailand (SRT).

He ordered the department this week to activate 20 such completed barriers stalled by red tape across the country.

Police spokesman Detnarong Sutthicharnbancha said on Monday that an initial investigation found that loud music had been playing on the bus before it was hit by the train. Police would decide if the music had been playing on the bus before it was hit by the train. Police would decide if the music made it impossible for the driver to hear the train or if reckless driving was involved, he said.

He also said that the SRT management was trying to educate people living near trains to not build illegal crossings for their own safety, but they remained a problem.

[hhinner]

Yes, it was reported in the Bangkok Post that the lights have just been installed, but not commissioned yet.

Isn't the new crossing at Hua Hin Soi 2 a bit like that? At first glance it looks like a working level crossing, but then you notice that the barrier booms haven't been installed yet, and maybe the lights don't work yet either. It's like a trap waiting for someone to cross thinking it's safe though a train might becoming.

Looks like it's finished and working now. Coincidence I suppose.

[PeteC]

Deleted....Nereus posted the story below.

[Nereus]

Surgical team killed in van-truck crash

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general ... ruck-crash


CHACHOENGSAO - Four members of a cosmetic surgery team were killed and another seriously hurt when a cargo truck rear-ended their van in Bang Pakong district late on Thursday night.

The crash happened near kilometre marker 44 on the Burapha Vithee expressway in tambon Bang Wua, said Pol Maj Bunsarit Chuaychoo, a traffic inspector at Bang Pakong police station. It was reported around 10-30 pm.


Police sent to the scene found an overturned white van with a Bangkok licence plate in the left lane of the expressway. A six-wheel cargo truck with an Ayutthaya licence plate had crashed into the concrete barrier bordering the right lane. Another damaged car was behind the truck.

Three women were found dead on the expressway. Another woman was seriously hurt. A dead man was found on the ground beneath the expressway.

Police said the van was carrying a six-member surgical team returning from Pattaya to Bangkok. It had developed engine trouble and the driver parked the vehicle in the left lane.

The passengers were waiting outside the van when a truck travelling in the left lane ran into the rear of it. Another car then rear-ended the truck.

The crash killed three women standing near the van and seriously injured a fourth. The force of the collision threw a man off the expressway. Only one passenger was unhurt.

[Nereus]

Posts crossed there Pete.

[PeteC]

Posts crossed there Pete.

Mai mee bahn haaa! I deleted mine above.

[PeteC]

7 hurt in Sa Kaeo minivan-tour bus collision

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general ... -collision

"A speeding van, running a red light, hit a tour bus after colliding with a pickup truck at the middle of an intersection....."

[buksida]

Daily bus smash update ...

Driver killed, 22 tourists hurt in tour bus crash
Kanchanaburi - The driver was killed and 22 passengers injured when their tour bus ran off the road and into a hillside in Si Sawat district on Friday morning.

The accident happened on the hilly Srinakarind Dam-Si Sawat Road in tambon Tha Kradan, Si Sawat police said.

It was reported to police about 11.10am on Friday.

The bus was carrying 23 Thai tourists from Sing Buri, who were heading home after camping and rafting in Si Sawat district when the crash occurred. The driver lost control going down the hill road at Tabtao curve. The bus first hit a low concrete barrier and then ploughed into the hillside.

The crash killed driver Supachai Sukchuen, 32. His body was trapped in the bus. Twenty-two passengers sustained injuries, three of them were badly hurt. They were rushed to nearby Tha Kradan Hospital.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general ... -bus-crash

[Nereus]

This BS can be seen just about any time on any major road. But the main cause of it is the ignorant me first ****holes that INSIST on slow driving in the "fast" lane.

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Fatal pile-up in Bangkok video from dash cam

http://www.bangkokpost.com/vdo/thailand ... k-thailand

A pickup truck driver was killed in a seven-vehicle crash on Bangkok’s Suwinthawong Road after a speeding sedan tried unsuccessfully to cut in front of him.
Both vehicles ended up in the opposite lane and were hit by a 10-wheeler in the Monday morning accident.

The pickup driver was thrown from his vehicle during the collision and died at scene. Other injured motorists were taken to hospital.
Internet users who saw the video mostly criticised the sedan driver for reckless driving and "indirectly murdering" the pickup driver.

[Nereus]

5 killed in van returning to Krabi from graduation ceremony

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general ... n-ceremony

SURAT THANI- Five people were killed, including two children, and eight others injured when their van skidded off a road and overturned in Chaiya district on Wednesday morning when they were returning from a graduation ceremony.

The van, with a Krabi licence plate, was carrying the driver and 12 family members from Chon Buri back to Krabi. It ran off the road, hit a tree and overturned.

[usual suspect]

Chonburi to Krabi is a fair distance for (I'm assuming) one driver to do..the likelihood of him falling asleep at the wheel, or at the very least being drowsy may come into play here.
R.I.P.those poor folk

[PeteC]

Four burn to death in crashed van, 7 badly hurt

"NAKHON SI THAMMARAT - Four passengers were killed and seven other people injured when the passenger van they were travelling in hit a pickup truck and motorcycle, then a pole, and burst into flames in Tha Sala district on Wednesday evening.".....

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general ... badly-hurt

EDIT: I bet it was one of those NGV conversions, perhaps a "do it yourself" conversion. The fire seems way too intense and encompassing for normal gasoline

[PeteC]

This one makes me chuckle given that Thailand is 362 per 1 million people as of 2015. The people in Europe don't know how good they have it! Pete

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wor ... countries/

[Nereus]

4 killed, 5 hurt in Tak tourist van crash

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general ... -van-crash

TAK -- Four holidaymakers were killed and five others injured when a their van plunged into a ditch and overturned in Wang Chao district on Thursday morning.

The Bangkok-registered minivan was heading to Chiang Mai when it skidded off Phaholyothin Road in front of Wat Tongteng in tambon Pradang, hit a tree and flipped, said Pratheep Porthiam, chief of Wang Chao district who was alerted around 7am.

The impact threw several passengers out of the vehicle. Two men and two women were killed instantly, their bodies trapped in the wreckage. Four men and one woman were hurt. The injured were rushed to a nearby hospital.

Witnesses told police that the van was speeding.

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[Big Boy]

I'm hearing unsubstantiated reports of a fatal rail crossing accident at Wai Sai Dai on the way to Cha-Am this morning. Report says 4 dead at the scene.

Report source is next door neighbour, who claims to have actually witnessed it. Does anybody know any more?