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Home » Traffic and transport » Boontje comes to tailgater for his wages (video)
Boontje comes to tailgater for his wages (video)
You see it quite often on the road in Thailand: annoying tailgating. The lack of traffic awareness and proper driver training make the roads in Thailand a mess.
Add to that the special traffic conditions such as the many stray dogs and the picture is complete, as you can see in this video, for example.
A driver of the pick-up seems to want to crawl into the exhaust of his predecessor. However, when it suddenly has to brake for a crossing dog, you can estimate what will happen…. or not?
See for yourself. And also pay attention to the dog, he looks back again and thinks to himself what a fuss about nothing….
Video: Boontje comes to tailgater for his wages
Watch the video here:
[youtube]https://youtu.be/2HGH_aOr0S4[/youtube]
The driver of the braking car apparently thinks the same. Som took after!
1. The car in front should not brake for a dog. No matter how sad for the dog, in this situation it could have ended much worse for him if that pickup came in.
2. The pickup should of course not stick
3. The driver of the pickup really can't drive and has absolutely no control over his vehicle.
You can hardly escape tailgating in Thai traffic. In the video it is exaggerated because the pickup has plenty of room to pass it, but in the city, for example, every hole you drop is filled and you will not get anywhere if you also have to take that into account. On busy roads outside the city you will still be overtaken and they will cram it in if you leave a gap. Something I do myself, if you master the trick, is to keep my left foot on the brake if things get a bit tight.
I once had a suddenly overflowing dog through my radiator. Brake, if you get the chance.
Incidentally, a dog is rarely as well insured as a tailgater. When I ride with someone, I think not only of the seat belt but also of the headrest. That is often completely wrong with Thai: completely down below neck height.
I saw this happen 13 times in half an hour while driving south from Bangkok.
All those pickup drivers are a big scum and think they are lord and master and worst of all, some have the whole family in the back or all employees. It is not for nothing that it is the country with the most fatal accidents per year and the police do nothing at all.
I don't think all pickup drivers are scum I've lived in Thailand for 5 years and need a pickup for my work and I drive very calmly and carefully
All people named Jan de Groot are idiots! That is as stupid and short-sighted a statement as “all those pick-up drivers are big scum”! Both my wife and I have been driving a pick-up in Thailand every day for 12 years.
I believe it is a normal reaction that you also brake for a dog, primarily for the animal, but also to avoid such damage, which usually has to be paid for by the driver of the hit car. Normally he could hold the owner of the dog liable, but it is usually the case, when it comes to money, that the owner will not come forward voluntarily. Moreover, the tailgater must at all times keep enough distance so that he can brake in time, and this is a normal rule both in and outside the city. Even someone who feels forced to stick his bumper in heavy traffic, does not have to master any tricks at all, he just has to calculate that the driver in front of him can, or must, brake at any moment.
Braking for animals okay but never do it when someone is driving so close behind you. You can be seriously injured in a rear-end collision. 1 of my parents was hit from behind in traffic jams in the Netherlands twice. Both times at low speeds. Just recovered from the first time, then the same story again and became incapacitated for the rest of life. Insurance of the following car covers the damage, but you are not helped with it and in the end you are the bitten dog yourself. I am a big fan of dogs, but if I have to choose in that situation, the dog will get the short end of the stick.
If the driver of the pick-up in that video hadn't been paying attention for some reason, a 1-ton pick-up would have come in and it would have looked very different.
Dear BA, I understand you thinking that everything can end even smarter if the front car brakes. Only with your reasoning, if someone drives close behind you, you should never brake again, and this is absurd. You would also never be able to drive in the right lane again, because there is a possibility that someone suddenly crosses your path without giving direction. Furthermore, if someone drives behind you, you never have to brake for a zebra crossing. It would also be better to drive on the roadside on a motorway when a traffic jam is approaching, because you can never be sure that the traffic coming behind can stop in time, etc. You would be better off throwing hope about many scholars, and just like many Thais doing this, developing their own driving method, which has led them to become one of the most dangerous countries in the world in terms of traffic.
Are there different situations?
You don't slam on the brakes 2 meters before a zebra crossing because a pedestrian suddenly appears who wants to cross.
If you hit a traffic jam then you don't keep driving 100 until the last 30 meters and you go full in the anchors.
If that driver saw the dog coming a little longer in the video, then some gas and a little braking would have been enough, then the car behind would not have had to swerve so abruptly. Unfortunately, apparently that was not the case and in this case an emergency stop is just a bad option.
Pickup drivers are big scum? Then thanks. Half or more of the cars on the road are pickups, I drive it and my wife's family does as well. And I really don't see us as scum, the more we respect the rules or better the habits. And we use common sense. And that everyone here is almost someone in the trunk or cargo box? Often, but that has nothing to do with the type of car. In addition, overtaking on the left, driving in the opposite direction, more than 100 at the "city limit", which is common for most Thais regardless of the vehicle they drive. Traffic rules, training and enforcement are the cause of behavior that we criticize. But better in traffic jams on A 10? In a Porsche?
Beautiful film made by a dashcam with poor image quality.
I can advise anyone who travels on wheels every day here in Thailand to buy a dashcam both on the motorcycle and in the car or pickup.
Because for the most part I move around on two wheels every day.
I have a good quality cam mounted on mounts on both of my motorcycle helmets.
Since last week I bought a camera with the same poorer quality of film images as in this video .
But these will suffice , what matters is what happens , or can happen before or during an accident or near - accident .
Mounted it with a mounting bracket on the right rear of the motorbike.
Because from experience I know that a lot of danger starts to arise from behind, last week it was once again close to the edge.
Ride your bike is best to attach it to the helmet.
There what your eyes see also sees the camera .
Mounted on a dashboard or windshield in the car or fixed place on the bike, the camera only sees what is happening ahead.
Cameras are not that expensive anymore, you can get a good one for around 4000 bath, I bought the worse one for 1400 bath.
When it comes down to it you have movie evidence.
And I have already made several video images with great and imminent risk to my life, but it went well.
See the video shown on this posting , the car that actually caused the accident slowly disappears from sight .
And it really won't come back, unfortunately this is the current mentality here in Thailand.
I have seen it happen several times along the road, luckily not in my vehicle.
Jan Beute.
The average Thai does not brake for a crossing dog as it poses a danger to him/herself. When I first got here and had a car (more than 40 years ago) I also slowed down for a crossing dog in Bangkok. Well I knew that, my wife from then scolded me in all tones. Never stop or brake for a dog or cat because you might end up doing it yourself by causing an accident. I will never slow down for such a beast and none of the Thais I know do. Fortunately, there is no Party for the Animals here.
A normal person brakes for an animal. Have I seen people brake for a snake crossing the road. And it was no small one. And did you know if you kill an animal and still manage to stop your Thai friend from going with you to a monk to ask for forgiveness.
Antoine: my "normal" friend also moved out! His father's BMW total loss. Since then I have been a "psychopath"! I like it very much and my insurance company too. When the day comes that I have to see a monk, I personally drop my wife off at the psychiatrist! I'm sitting on my terrace all the time now thinking if I'm a normal person…..?