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Home » Remarkable » Bizarre accident: car runs over playing Thai children (video)
Our reader Ronny drew our attention to this video of a freak accident. Although the driver cannot be blamed, he will not have noticed the children playing in front of his car, it is strange that he does not stop to see what he has run over. Or you would expect him to take a look in his rearview mirror anyway.
Ronny says the following about it:
Somewhere in Thailand. Remember the video on TB where a driver just ran over a man and then continued on his way… Same driver here. Can't believe he didn't notice anything though. Pay particular attention to the children who are playing with something in front of the parked car because that's what it's about.
Video: car runs over playing children
Watch the video here, be aware images can be shocking:
[youtube]http://youtu.be/6XXqEqhVu7I[/youtube]
Why can't the driver be blamed? You take a look at what's in front of and behind your car, isn't it? He didn't do it on purpose, I'll assume, but he's at fault, too. I hope they still catch him. Those kids could be disabled for the rest of their lives.
Gvd… so typical thai… don't take anything or anyone into account, my car is my right… to vomit.
See, that's out. This is one of the reasons why I am returning to Europe for good this month, I don't want to generalize but you see things like this more here than anywhere else.
Gvd ... how sad to see this, innocent children ..... typical Thai How on earth can this happen. And then just keep driving... Does that driver have no feelings or no brains...?
Surely he must come before the court…, a tip for the police and it's all right….
Very sorry for those innocent children.
Terrible to see, to make me sick to the stomach, I can also get very angry about this, but I do not believe that it happened on purpose, in my humble opinion it is a mixture of many factors.
As we all know, in general a Thai driver's license is a piece of cake! Most of them are actually not suitable for driving, and then they also buy such a large container where they can only just rise above the steering wheel.
This idiot didn't think when driving away either, hey I'm driving over something I'm going to see what this was, and God knows he also had a piece in his collar or a pill, because that's Thailand too, plus the indifference and selfishness in traffic.
And on top of that, in many countries the infrastructure has been adapted to traffic, so, for example, like in the Netherlands sidewalks, where children can play, and not like here in this video where those little ones are playing right in front of a car, and where are those parents who have to teach their child not to play in front of a car.
If you add all that together, an accident like this is in a small corner.
It is extreme in Thailand, you can see that again in the accidents during the dangerous days, but also in the Netherlands it is crazy these days, as yesterday a kl .. bag tore past road workers at 180 kilometers per hour and these people had to jump for their lives.
Such people as in that video should at least give them a driving ban for life, but no we don't do anything, or they get a few hours of community service. And those kids? hopefully they will have better luck in their next life!
I have NOT watched the video. The text shows enough, images don't have to support that. I wonder why such a video (even though I have deliberately not seen it) is placed on TB by the editors. Of course I do not close my eyes to what is happening in the world (including Thailand). Think a bit of sensationalism and that doesn't seem to fit with TB.
Just like with a video (long time ago) where a pick-up went off the road with a number of deaths as a sad result. That didn't work for me either.
Finally: unfortunately driving on after such a serious accident also occurs in the western world (including the Netherlands)!!
Dear Rob, the images go through the marrow and bone. I thought about whether or not to post it. In the end I chose to do it anyway because Thailandblog does not only show the nice sides of Thailand. This video was posted on social media (Facebook) by Thai herself, I think mainly as a warning and not for sensationalism.
Incidentally, this type of accident can happen anywhere in the world. The message is above all: watch out for children playing. I hope that after seeing these images, at least the expats in Thailand, from now on take a look in front of and behind their car before driving away. Perhaps Thailandblog has once contributed to a child being spared the same fate.
Hi Peter Kuhn,
The message: pay attention when you get into your car, I can understand. In that context it is always good to continue to pay attention to these types of accidents, also at Tb. I really appreciate that about your blog!
Nevertheless, that message will also get across without the video (at least: I hope so).
Dear Rob, I know by now that little negative can be written about Thailand on TB, the smile must be kept high at all costs. That you state that this can also happen in the Netherlands is of course correct, the NL police are not there on every street corner, but the NL police will do everything they can to find out the perpetrator. Do you know that even in Germany there is such a thing as “Fahrer Flucht”? That means that you are punishable even in a collision? That if someone saw the collision while you drove on, and someone passes on your details (e.g. license plate) to the German police, there is a very good chance that you will be arrested by the police shortly afterwards? Please don't act like that in the Netherlands or elsewhere in Europe, because that's not the case.
When you see how the Thai but also you as a farang really have to run across the street to avoid being hit by a car.
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Dear Kun Peter. This is also a part of Thailand, but it can also happen in another country. I think your decision to post this in TL-blog is correct.
It's easy to talk in hindsight. But the parents are also often to blame. Their offspring play by water or on public roads, etc. and they often don't even know where they are.
Citing this as a reason to leave Thailand seems exaggerated to me. In all countries of the world, cars are used, knowingly or unknowingly, to kill people. Whether someone is inadvertently run over or shot to death in a bank robbery with cars. Where's the difference?.
No one will want to contradict you that unfortunately, hit-and-run driving also occurs in the Netherlands, but you can say that when something like this horrible happens in the Netherlands, the entire country is in turmoil, it will be the talk of the town on the street, at work or anywhere else. . In addition, I am sure that everything will be done to catch the driver and then take him/her to court to answer for him/her.
Current affairs and talk shows on radio and TV will trip over each other to invite guests to express their views on the said incident and social media on the internet will be full because everyone wants to express their disgust about it, but no one will want it. whitewash' by saying that such a thing not only occurs in the Netherlands, but also in Thailand.
@Rob, I think it's good that Thailandblog also shows these kinds of videos, agree with you that there is also a touch of sensationalism involved, but I still think it's good that these kinds of videos also highlight the abuses of the country, and I also think it's sincere comments that people post here, and not those of thrill seekers.
That's how it is with the newsreel, here you can also see these kinds of videos, and if you want to give an opinion yourself, I think you should have seen it yourself, seeing is believing!
But I do respect your well-intentioned opinion on this, and I must admit that I also hesitated to watch, especially since it concerns children.
But I don't think sensationalism applies in this case, that is if you really go surfing to these kinds of videos, then you are really looking to be able to seduce yourself with the images shown to you.
Dear TB Bloggers
I got the video from a Thai friend's FB.
I didn't really pay attention to it then, or pay attention to the details and automatically thought of Thailand given the source.
However, now that I've looked at it several times, I'm not quite sure anymore whether it's 100 percent certain whether this is in Thailand.
I can't decipher the license plate here on my laptop, or see the driver, so I have reasons to doubt.
The reason for my doubt
It could be Thailand if the driver was already in the car, because we don't see anyone getting in from the driver's side.
Quite possible and explains why the car leaves so quickly after the man with the shovel has finished (if he has already got in, of course).
If there was no one in the car and the man with the shovel is probably the driver, then he got in from the driver's side and he is on the left. This means that you drive on the right.
Could be Laos or Cambodia for example.
In any case, does he leave very quickly after boarding or is there perhaps another driver who was already waiting.
If the latter is correct (drive on the right), I apologize because I wrote "Somewhere in Thailand" because it could also have been Laos or Cambodia. This error is then my fault because the editors took my information further.
If anyone can give a definite answer as to where this is, I'd be happy to read it because for the time being I can't really figure it out.
But in the end it really doesn't matter whether it's Thailand, Laos or Cambodia, because of course it makes no difference to the seriousness of this accident.
Ronny, thank you for your explanation. It doesn't matter much for the message, because this can happen anywhere. Walk around your car when you get in. Children are in their own little world and see no danger.
Khan Peter,
That is indeed true.
Playing children live in their own fantasy world, cut off from the reality around them.
In addition, children really still play in the street and that they are sometimes just in the driver's blind spot.
We as adults should take this into account.
So extra caution is the message.
I doubt if this is in Thailand.
But doesn't matter.
I myself have a pick-up where I always walk around that thing when I get in because there can be a motorcycle behind me when I park it that I can't see in the mirror.
I taught myself that, because of the problems you can get in Thailand since a Nepalese parked his motorcycle in front of his clothing store that you couldn't miss him.
He flew out for compensation for nothing .
I spat on the damage and removed it, it was bird droppings.
Dear Ronnie
I don't care where it happened. Well it happened.
I was shocked when I saw the video. And immediately asked myself can this happen to me too?
Do I always look in front of my car before I drive away? I must honestly say that I don't.
We only have a small car, I think it would definitely stand out
In that respect, I'm glad I saw the video and will pay more attention in the future.
Yesterday I became a grandfather of a beautiful girl for the second time
I think I was even more scared
Of course he must have felt that, the car just goes up. According to the recording, it appears that the children were not hurt, although he ran over one of the children with the left rear wheel.
At the end, one of the children lies down, doesn't it??? I assume the perpetrator is known by now.
Well, in Thailand or somewhere else.
Delivering directly to Thai people is of course the easiest.
Indeed, you do not see anyone boarding.
Maybe it wasn't Thai at all?
Maybe it was a Farang
who will say?
Very sad what is happening here, just a pity that someone uses this in his reaction to kick down the entire Thai society together with the rich farangs.
This person also believes that all expats and retirees are biased.
Personally, I don't see what that has to do with the video.
Does no one stop to think about what happened to the little boy who was left lying on the street as if dead?
Is there no one here who wonders what happened afterwards with the little boy who was left lying on the street?
I just hope he didn't suffer any serious internal injuries.
The pinnacle is that my Thai companions who are here with me dare to question that this happened in Thailand.
Incidentally, I cannot deduce (demonstrate) from this article that this is indeed the case.
Do the editors know where and in which Thai province this accident happened?
Completely correct question from you and covers with my question dear Roland. If a 1.2 ton truck rolls over a child's body, the outcome seems easy to guess. Here I hope I'm wrong.
I also stop more often when I get a call in the car. But I don't see anyone (including me) who then gets out and walks around his car. That may be right, but even the civilized Europe does no one?.
That is one of the reasons why, among other things, in Europe it is advised to cross behind the bus when getting off a bus. In addition, the bus has a much better view of the road than a Pick-up truck.
I responded at the very beginning and indeed said that selfishness and taking no account of many Thai people in traffic is one of the reasons why we leave Thailand, this aside.
I do note that the reactions now all talk about whether or not to look around your car when you leave ... but that is not the point at all: the driver (of course) feels that he is driving over something (see the movements of the car ), may even hear the kids shouting (assuming) but just refuses to stop and see what's going on. Accidents can happen anywhere in the world, but don't escape your responsibility.
That's it right, sense of responsibility??? You hit the nail on the head with your comment, but that word (responsibility) is not or hardly in the Thai dictionary.
At least the content of that concept eludes the majority of Thais. When you talk to them about responsibility, they give you a strange (actually dazed) look. And a bit like “what is that farang talking about”…
I experienced something like this and wanted to chase the perpetrator on a fast motorcycle to record the license plate number
My neighbors and others stopped me .
Don't interfere was their advice and pulled the key out of my engine.
I still struggle with it mentally from time to time.
The consolation is that my neighbors wanted to save me from doing stupid things in their culture.
It was shocking to see the perpetrator go over the body one more time in reverse to make sure it was dead.
No one is allowed to interfere with those kinds of things if you want to get a state pension in Thailand, otherwise you will miss out on 500 THB per month.
Unfortunately, the man with the money of many elderly has run off.
In Ubon Ratcathani, the person ran off with the money.
The proceeds of the rice have not yet been distributed .
Now I'm getting off topic, so stop.