Minivan, bus and road accidents

[Nereus]

So why isn't the idiot locked up?
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Driver charged over KU campus crash that injured 5 students

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... 5-students

Police have pressed a charge of reckless driving against the man at the wheel of a pickup truck that crashed into three motorcycles on the main campus of Kasetsart University, injuring five students, on Thursday.

A video recording from the dashcam of another vehicle, circulated in social media, showed the pickup was travelling too fast and crossed into the oncoming lane as the driver made a left turn.

The pickup crashed head-on into three motorcycles. Five KU students were hurt. One of them, a third-year student, was still in an intensive care unit on Friday.

Pol Lt Col Thanaphan Phadungkarn, deputy superintendent of Bang Khen, said on Friday that Ratthawit Sarawutwinai, 38, had been charged with reckless driving causing injuries and damage to property.

Mr Ratthawit was charged and then released without bail as he fully cooperated with police on the case.

The man allegedly admitted he was driving around 80 kilometres per hour at the time, and claimed he could not slam on the brakes because a pair of sandals had wedged under the foot pedal.

An alcohol test had proved negative. Police could not find any sandals in the driver's position. Mr Ratthawit might have taken them home.

Pol Lt Col Thanaphan said the case would be submitted to prosecutors after police received a report from forensic investigators who examined the vehicle. That would take about two weeks.

KU on Friday issued a statement saying it would strictly screen non-university vehicles entering the campus, and ban them from areas reserved for students and university staff.


KU has opened its main campus in Bang Khen district to all vehicles, to help ease traffic congestion in the surrounding streets.

A security guard rushes to help Kasetsart University students injured when their motorcycles were hit by a speeding pickup truck on campus on Thursday. (Photo from khokkhram28 via @fm91trafficpro Twitter account)

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[PeteC]

45 killed daily in road accidents in past 10 months

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... -10-months

Keep the number in mind when the "7 deadly days" start again to see if any different. I don't think it will vary from the average, which we've concluded each year for the past several.
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Road accidents killed 45 people and injured 2,523 each day on average from January to October this year, according to data compiled by the central road accident claims company.

Road Accident Victims Protection Co was jointly set up in 1998 and owned by all insurance companies at the time to ensure quick payments of compulsory compensation to road victims under the 1997 Protection for Motor Vehicle Victims Act.

According to the company’s data in the first 10 months of this year, 13,692 people died and 757,010 were injured in road accidents.

Jarut Visalchit, director-general of the Land Transport Department, said safety measures had been implemented and planned to reduce Thailand's road fatalities to below 10 per 100,000 population, the goal set for next year.

Based on the population of 66.4 million last year, Thailand’s goal of 664 road traffic deaths a year or 1.8 per day on average is a tall order, given the 10-month data.

Mr Jarut said several measures had already been implemented. For instance, public transport vans must use terminals. All public vehicles and lorries must install GPS systems and GPS-based monitoring centres were set up to monitor them for violations.

Online systems on vehicle conditions and their fuel systems were also put in place while more checkpoints were set up at accident-prone spots nationwide, he said.

Public drivers with past records are monitored 24 hours while drivers’ working hours are required to be reported and checked. Drivers must also be tested for alcohol and receive training.

For cargo lorries, twist locks are required to be installed, he said.

Next year, public transport vehicles must be no more than 3.8m high from 4m currently while double deckers must be no more than 4.3m high. Vehicles 3.6m or higher must also pass rollover tests and standards will be set on doors and inerior materials, he said.

Thailand has the eighth worst record in the world for fatal road accidents, as measured by deaths per 100,000 population, according to the World Health Organization.

The ranking in the most recent WHO survey in 2018 is actually an improvement from the previous two surveys, when the country ranked second, behind only Libya. The survey is conducted every three years.

[Nereus]

I don't get to the north so much these days, but have run up against this several times. Just another example of "me first"!
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Farmers continue drying paddy on roads despite fatal accident

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... t#cxrecs_s

NAKHON RATCHASIMA: Farmers continue to dry their freshly harvested rice on public roads in this northeastern province even though it recently caused a fatal collision and is illegal.

Farmers were seen drying their paddy on netting laid on roads and even on bridges in Phimai and nearby districts on Wednesday.

They seemed oblivious of the fact provincial authorities have banned the practice and ordered village headmen to make vacant land available for them to use - such as school grounds, temple land and local government compounds.

The practice proved fatal last Sunday when three pickup trucks collided on Ban Poljalok-Sa Waree Road in Moo 8 village of tambon Makha in Non Sung district. Two people died and two others were seriously injured in the accident.

On the day farmers were drying their grain on one lane of the two-lane road, leaving only one lane for traffic.

Farmers in that area, at least, have now stopped doing so, for fear of legal action.

Freshly harvested rice laid out to dry on netting laid on a road in Phimai district of Nakhon Ratchasima on Wednesday. (Photo by Prasit Tangprasert)

One of three pickup trucks involved in the fatal accident rests on drying paddy which partially blocks the road in tambon Makha of Non Sung district, Nakhon Ratchasima, on Sunday. (Photo by Prasit Tangprasert)

[europtimiste]

Drive over the paddy, best way to teach them not to do again.

[Nereus]

Drive over the paddy, best way to teach them not to do again.

The problem with that is many farmers have guns, legal or not, and will use them!

[europtimiste]

Drive over the paddy, best way to teach them not to do again.

The problem with that is many farmers have guns, legal or not, and will use them!

AS they don't sit on the roadside with the gun in their hands plenty of time to drive away.

[caller]

Drive over the paddy, best way to teach them not to do again.

It certainly won't do the rice any harm. Might scatter it around a bit...…

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[PeteC]

I hope the newlyweds aren't superstitious?

Rented bus catches fire on return from wedding

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A fire completely destroyed an air-conditioned bus on Sunday but its 46 passengers who returned from a wedding ceremony were unharmed.

The bus owned by Pathomporn Co caught fire on Asia Highway in Manorom district of this central province, forcing all passengers and the driver to flee.

A passenger on the bus whose name was not revealed said the bus was rented in Takhli district of Nakhon Sawan province on Sunday morning to take the groom and some guests to Bang Rakham district in Phitsanulok province where the bride lived.

The same passenger said during the return trip the air conditioner was out of the order and smoke came out of the air-conditioning vents inside the bus. The fire then followed, forcing the driver to pull over.

Firefighters from Chai Nat and Nakhon Sawan provinces were called to the scene. It took them 45 minutes to put out the blaze that completely destroyed the vehicle.

Driver Theerasak Klanfuk said the fire might have started from the malfunctioned cooling panel and he promised the company would take full responsibility for the damage.

Police of the Manorom police station and forensic experts are determining the cause of the blaze and will later press charges against the driver.

[europtimiste]

Loss of life due to accidents is always regrettable, but it's a balance to the high birth rate.

[Nereus]

Driver killed, 6 students hurt in van-truck collision

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... -collision

Police say van driver might have dozed off before rear-ending trailer truck

CHON BURI: A driver was killed and six female students hurt when a passenger van they were travelling in rear-ended a trailer truck on the Bangkok-bound motorway in Muang district early Saturday morning.

The incident occurred at kilometre maker 68 on the motorway in tambon Na Pa, said highway police, who were alerted at around 5.30am.

Police arriving at the scene found the Bangkok-Chanthaburi passenger van with Bangkok licence plates was badly damaged. The driver and passengers were trapped inside the wreckage.

Rescue workers retrieved the body of a man, identified later as driver Saroj Khlabkhlai, 33 from the driver’s seat. Six passengers — one university student and five high-schoolers — were hurt and rushed to nearby hospitals, Thai media reported.

Not far from the van, an 18-wheel trailer truck loaded with steel rods was found parked, with its rear partly damaged.

Somthin Wilawan, 48, the truck driver, told police he was transporting steel rods from Laem Chabang port to Samut Prakan when he heard something hit the rear of his vehicle. He initially thought some steel rods might have fallen. When he went to check, he saw the passenger van had struck the truck, and he immediately alerted police.

Of the six injured passengers, the five Mathayom Suksa 5 students said they had boarded the van from their school in Chanthaburi to go to Srinakharinwirot University in Bangkok.
Police believe the van driver might have dozed off, causing his van to hit the trailer truck.

Rescue workers try to retrieve the dead and injured people from the wreckage of a passenger van after it rear-ended an 18-wheel trailer truck on the Bangkok-bound motorway in Chon Buri on Saturday morning. (Photo from Trikhunnatham.SoS rescue Facebook page)

[PeteC]

Let's see the driver's log book. (Hysterical laughing heard all over the land...)

[Big Boy]

Parking vehicles on the hard shoulder of the highway isn't too clever either. Certainly banned in the UK, but don't know about other countries. Maybe it was genuine, and he'd broken down, but plenty of others just park up on the hard shoulder. This is particularly prevalent at service stations, where they are too lazy to turn into the station and park on the hard shoulder, blocking visibility of traffic re-joining the motorway. It's probably illegal here also, but it's no good having laws if your police force is camped under a shady tree waiting for a crime to come to it.

[Nereus]

Not sure that the truck was parked. Although they do stop wherever it suits them!
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Not far from the van, an 18-wheel trailer truck loaded with steel rods was found parked, with its rear partly damaged.

Somthin Wilawan, 48, the truck driver, told police he was transporting steel rods from Laem Chabang port to Samut Prakan when he heard something hit the rear of his vehicle. He initially thought some steel rods might have fallen. When he went to check, he saw the passenger van had struck the truck, and he immediately alerted police.

[Nereus]

3 killed, boy injured in fiery Chon Buri crash

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... buri-crash

CHON BURI: Three people - a man, a woman and a boy - were killed and another passenger, a five-year-old boy, slightly injured when a car hit a power post and crashed into a highway median ditch in Bang Lamung district on Sunday morning. police said.

The accident occurred at about 5am when a Nissan car with four people inside skidded off Highway 331 at Khao Hin Son in tambon Mai Kaew, hit a power post and ended up in flames in the median ditch.

Local residents tried to douse the fire with extinguishers and rescued a five-year-old boy who was thrown out of the car by the impact while the other three passengers were trapped inside.

When police and a rescue unit arrived, personnel extracted the three other passengers - a man, a woman and a boy - from the car, but all three were dead. The five-year-old who survived was slightly injured.

Police were investigating to establish the cause of the accident.

[Nereus]

Police Say Ambulance Driver Dozes Off, Killing Patient

http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/crim ... g-patient/

NAKHON RATCHASIMA — An ambulance en route to deliver a patient home struck into a tree on Monday morning, killing the patient and wounding her relatives, police said.

Ambulance driver Kittipoom Imsuk, 42, apparently dozed off behind the wheel before crashing the vehicle on the side of Mittraphap Road in Korat, local police chief Col. Thanatsan Muangi said by phone.

Though the investigation is ongoing, Thanatsan of Non Daeng Police Station said Kittipoom might have dozed off after a long journey throughout the night.

The patient, Somporn Nawongsa, 41, died at the scene, where three of her relatives and the driver sustained serious injuries, according to the police.

The ambulance was hired to transport Somporn from a hospital in Chonburi back to her home in Nong Khai province, police said.

Accidents involving ambulances were frequent enough for the Ministry of Public Health to impose a speed limit of 80 kmph on medical vehicles operating in non-emergency assignments back in April.

Wrecked ambulance after the accident on Nov. 25, 2019.

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