Belgian motorcyclist (39) dies in an accident in Phuket
This morning at 6am local time, Chalong police found the body of a 39-year-old Frederik Maes from Belgium on Wiset Road in Rawai. The victim had serious wounds on his stomach, knees and left leg and was bleeding from the mouth and nose.
The body of the man probably collapsed against the guardrails, given the traces of blood. The motorcycle had been moved to the side of the road. no helmet was found at the scene. The lifeless body has been transferred to Vachira Phuket Hospital. The police noted that his body had many tattoos.
According to the police, the motorcyclist drove at high speed from Rawai to Chalong. The accident happened on a steep part of the road, in a bend. He probably first hit the guard rails and then ended up in the middle of the road.
Source: The Thaiger
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This is yet another example of what is already happening here every day on Thai roads.
With the only difference that this young man did make the news.
Don't think that all fatal accidents involving Farangs will be in the news.
Not to mention the Thais who die in traffic every day.
Jan Beute.
Strange but the last 3 days there have been a lot of accidents on the tiwanonroad.
Serious injuries and deaths have indeed occurred.
It is also still amazing that there is pruning hard maneuvering between cars etc.
The function of light is also often unknown.
A helmet is also not used. The main problem is that they use all lanes and drive from left to right without realizing that a car can also swerve.
Driving against traffic is also common.
Overtaking on the left and then not paying attention to the direction indicator of the car turning left is also often the case.
But still sad nonetheless.
who are you talking about? In this case it is about a Belgian who has crashed with his motorcycle on a difficult or dangerous road. I won't prejudge someone with a lot of tattoos and still quite young but read nothing about the bike type, whether the accident was one-sided, so probably no one else to blame? is alcohol involved? time it happened, what does that indicate? where did he come from and what was his mood? what were the weather conditions at that time? fatigue or just overconfident? The article is not about the Thai in traffic. I now live south of Rayong and here I don't see a single farang on a motorcycle with a helmet because there are no police checks here. One drives in a controlled manner, the other drives as if the road is his alone and trumps all Thais with his dangerous style. Yet in 5 months I have only seen one accident in Ban Phe, on the corner near the police station. It is also rainy here, winding mountain roads and a lot of local traffic, along with doubting and searching tourists. When we talk about road users in general, I think the number of casualties is not too bad and I am amazed at the amount of daily reports about the Netherlands about all kinds of accidents, even signaling cars along highways, pedestrians on highways, overturned trucks, head-on collisions, motorcyclists with a single-vehicle accident, cars into the water and into trees, pedestrians and cyclists who have been involved in an accident. that is incomprehensible to me.
De Telegraaf also reports every day about motorcyclists killed in the Netherlands who would then wear an approved helmet? but also died of injuries. Probably due to speeding on mostly straighter and flatter roads than in Thailand. why are the expats always so angry with the Thai traffic. try to put things in proportion. Difficulty, temperature, traffic intensity, population numbers, distances, etc. I do not drive a motorcycle, but I have been driving without damage in Thailand for 28 years and see relatively few accidents.