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Home » Traffic and transport » Video footage of a serious traffic accident in Thailand
Video footage of a serious traffic accident in Thailand
In Thailand it is very dangerous on the road. There are many fatalities in traffic. Usually it concerns motorbikes, these are vulnerable and a helmet is rarely worn.
In this video you can see images that were recorded with a security camera. The incident took place in Nakhon Chaisi, a district in Central Thailand about 56 kilometers from Bangkok.
After about two minutes you see that a pickup truck tried to drive around an obstacle in the middle of the road and hit a waiting man on a motorbike head-on. The victim is then also run over by the same pick-up. It even seems as if the driver in the pick-up just drove on after the accident. Horrific images, but unfortunately the order of the day in Thailand.
Video serious traffic accident in Thailand
Watch the video here:
[youtube]http://youtu.be/JrIj4n83qEc[/youtube]
I have seen many accidents in Thailand.
And usually the driver just drives on as if nothing has happened.
The worst thing is if you talk to Thai people about it, they also find it very normal.
People in a car are superior to people on a moped.
that is why the first car scheme was such a great success.
But what if there had been a Farang in the car? They had indeed tracked them down and perhaps even lynched them. I also miss the role of that jerk who parks his scooter in the middle of the road. In the Netherlands, a number of people would be charged here. The pick-up driver, the man with the white scooter and the people who, in this case, leave the crime scene without helping the victim. Hope the victim survived, and that someone else had the decency to call an ambulance.
I'm falling out of the sky again, since I've only seen a collision once (!!) in 32 years of Thailand (travelling). This was in Bangkok on Sukhumvit road at the intersection of Terminal 1 between a motorbike and a car.
So I thought that, despite the anarchism in traffic behavior, there were very few accidents.
Not so, and it seems like I keep falling out of the blue here when Thailand is once again pointing the finger, and I think that the Thai people are being unfairly criticized again.
Going on holiday to Thailand (even though it has been 32 years and several times a year and many weeks) is clearly something different from living there, is my only conclusion.
Apparently I really don't know the country and the people very well...
Hi Pat
I live about 25km from Pattaya and I can assure you driving in Thailand is a true adventure
Most Thais drive without insurance (is not required here)
Every time we drive somewhere I get annoyed with the Thai driving style, they don't look left or right
I have the impression when they are behind the wheel they imagine themselves to be the 'king of the road'
Everyone has to give way to them, here you can't relax driving like in Europe
Christje how do you come up with such nonsense.
Insurance of both car and motorcycle is mandatory in Thailand.
Cars older than 5 years must undergo a brake test and smoke test every year at an inspection station.
For motorcycles after 5 years of lighting, smoke and recently sound test.
Jantje old judge, and was helpful 7 years ago at a Thai inspection station
When applying for type approval from a Dutch company that makes bank brakes.
Was present during the entire procedure for approval by the Thai RDW .
Greetings Jantje
I live on Koh Samui and not seeing an accident for a month is a rarity. By the way, you only have to look at the road where the police make the markings with a spray can after an accident. On average three seriously injured every day, then I don't count the abrasions. Now, by the way, tourists who drive around like an idiot on a moped without a driver's license can also do something about it. You see one every day in bandages full of abrasions. When I'm riding the moped and my wife is on the back and I slow down to let a pedestrian cross, she tells me to continue. I think a pedestrian is an outlaw in Thailand. I was just about to drive onto the ring road here, a pick-up truck was about to take a strange turn and almost hit me. Through the dark window (they can forbid that from me) I could see that a Thai woman was calling with a mobile phone and wanted to steer around the bend with one hand. In the Netherlands you would send an insult to the driver, but my wife does not allow me to do that. Not because of the insult, but because of the loss of face you caused the driver. If you hit the wrong one, you never know how it will end.
I also personally experienced this incident, not I was involved in a similar accident
As Kees says everyone just drives on without caring about the victim.
We Foreigners who live here do what we have to do and spontaneously offer help.
You will receive a lot of gratitude from the victim afterwards.
It will just happen to you
Tomorrow I have to go to the airport in Bkk by car. My son is coming on vacation and I will only be happy when I return home in one piece.
That fat guy who puts his moped across the middle of the road is the main culprit!!! It is completely unclear what was going through his head! From the moment it is on screen (all the time), it does stupid things… starts calling when it drives off, makes trouble for other mopeds, and gets in the middle of the road!!!
So knowingly driving someone to death is just murder! I have no words for the fact that Vigo deliberately accelerates and runs over that man… Which I also have no words for, that EVERYONE just drives on, even the direct witnesses (black Honda Civic and SUV and moped). Nobody helps!!!
I hope that everyone involved gets the harshest possible sentences, but know (unfortunately) all too well that probably NOTHING will happen. What can I say?!? TIT (This is Thailand)
Was also my first thought. For what obscure reason does that person place his motorcycle / moped there in the middle of the road and then just walk away. At least he had to park his vehicle on the edge of the road.
The pickup had to drive on the left side of the road.
Didn't see or feel anything???
It will be your child / husband.
Also in Belgium I notice that many push the horn rather than the brake.
Chrisje,
I agree that driving (participating in traffic) in Thailand is a real adventure, but my opinion is that this often also benefits alertness…
Just got back from Pattaya and I participated very intensely in the traffic with my motorbike.
I also see that the traffic rules are not in accordance with ours, but in that anarchy I also see clarity and even a certain courtesy.
By the way, if you see how detailed our Western traffic legislation is written and on the other hand see that serious / fatal traffic accidents happen every day, then I do not understand the criticism here…
MY POINT : you can only criticize and make connections, if you look at the cause / reason / reason.
In the example that we see in the video, it is about human error, and legislation can never change that.
I also want to assume that older (Western) people experience difficulties in functioning in Thai traffic, but as a vital man or woman it is not really a survival journey in my opinion.
Dear Pat
Damn I think I'm starting to get demented
The collision takes place at a moderate speed. After the collision, the car could have stopped.
But no, he accelerates to get over the moped and the man lying on the ground. After that he just keeps going. You call that human error.
Let's hope you don't have a driver's license. I want to live in Thailand next year
If you've seen an accident just once, you've been blindfolded for 32 years or locked yourself in your hotel room.
If you take a good look around you (especially in Bangkok) you will see accidents every day.
I have sometimes been terrified in a taxi! And it's not because I was scared.
Accidents are the order of the day, often due to drink.
I now get two small sweeps out of the pan here in quick succession, while my sharp reactions often go unpublished…
To Bangkok: no, I did not lock myself up or walk around with a blindfold, I tell you what I have (not) seen in accidents all these years (just one).
To Kees : with a human error I mainly meant that this accident has nothing to do with the regulations and with Thailand, but with human error.
Failure through stupidity, failure through absent-mindedness, failure through ill-will, or whatever.
And of course I totally disapprove of this behavior.
You can also see in the video where there are many more on youtube that fellow road users drive on completely uninterested after this terrible accident. And all those passing scooter riders all without helmets. After I was once pushed off the road in Thailand by a car driver who then tore away through a red light. 9 out of 10 have had no driving training and are still driving around uninsured. We recently saw a 14-year-old girl driving her mom's new pickup in our street and 4 children waved at me on the loading area. Knowing supervision, control and accountability not in Thailand. Have never seen a teaching car on the street in Thailand, are there any?
The tjoek drivers do not even need to have a driver's license while they are still a significant number of road users. This behavior will continue as long as the police are solely focused on the fine amount and do not give a damn about safety and accident prevention.
Dear Pat
I don't know what you all mean by human error. Knowingly running over someone is not a mistake. That is intent worse even attempted manslaughter Hence my response
I also agree with you that there are also deaths in the Netherlands. And as many as 650 a year against Thailand
14000 And still rising. I'm told that's 4,4 deaths in 100000
In the Netherlands and 38,1 in 100000 in Thailand. That difference is so big that you should be a bit shocked I think
Thailand ranks second in terms of being the most dangerous country in the world. Regarding traffic
Only Venezuela has more road deaths per year. Together with Sweden and England, the Netherlands is one of the safest countries in the world. I got that data from google
I'm not here denouncing Thailand. I like Thailand but it is the way it is
I have been an international driver myself and in doing so I have driven a few million kilometers in all kinds of countries. I will manage in Thailand. It is different for Pon my wife who got her driving license here in the Netherlands 30 years ago. She still drives neatly according to the book
That will not work in Thailand.
This isn't a slap in the face Pat. You can love Thailand but you shouldn't say it never rains.
With kind regards, Kees
Kees1, I will especially pick up on your last sentence, because I hear this often.
After all, people have often told me that I give Thailand and the Thai people too much credit, while the reality is sometimes completely different…
However, I am not one of the naives of this world and my perception and knowledge of people are more than decently developed.
However, I apparently experience contacts with Thai people differently, even though they try their hardest.
Only I (CERTAINLY FOR ME as an Antwerp resident with great self-confidence) adopt a rather humble attitude, since I am a guest.
I also expect this from our new Belgians, if you know what I mean, and it is one of the reasons why I am so sour in my Flemish country…
On topic, I accept that there are many traffic accidents and that there is a lot of carelessness and too little legislation in traffic, but I have actually only seen one traffic accident.
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