OttoPollmann

Double standards in this Banana Republic. Thai walks scot free and this swiss guy sits in the monkey house for defend himself from an armed intruder in the middle of the night. 

3 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

As you mentioned - its quite possible that the Lambo was approaching at speed, the pickup (with eggs) changed lanes without looking or simply thought the approaching Lambo was too for off... 

 

There is no mentioned of how the accident happened though. 

 

But, as fare as the article is concerned, its beside the point: the driver of the Lambo swapped, and both the driver and passenger could be facing serious charges. 

This concern is coming from the lawyer of the egg's lady. So far no statement from the police or if alcohol was involved. 

Questionable should also be the load of the pickup. With 2100kg of eggs the payload of the D-max is way too much exceeded.

Easy for a good lawyer to catch on that. 

Also they didn't make a runner and the driver's swap can be excused of fear of the two tier standard in Thailand. 

Consider the damage on the Lambo, it looks like a sideswipe to me. So the D-max has crossed into the path of the Lambo? No video footage for that? Furthermore, these racing tires on the pickup aren't original as well as the carry box. So, if the guy has the money for a Lambo it should be no problem to get a good lawyer and he comes out scot free and the egg's seller pays the bill.

1 hour ago, steven100 said:

those sneaky farang are at it again ....

Looks more like Sino Thai or Chinese to me in the news report on TV.

1 hour ago, Isaan sailor said:

So far, Isaan rice still OK.  Another big storm--and it's over.

Dependent where you are. So far, I'll have a good year, not dry as usual. I only hope that this year I'll get more than the usual 8.5 baht for dry rice.

Always the same! Because of an impatient driver a unfortunate soul had to die. He couldn't wait until the road was cleared and must squeeze his big a$$ lorry through the already narrowed bottleneck without any regards of any life. In the real world this would be clearly his fault. 

17 hours ago, Ralf001 said:

What steel grades are they using ?

 

Chinesium 

1 hour ago, Hallib said:

Ok good to stop the bribery which this country has a reputation for.....BUT give the police decent salary and then you can expect higher standards for a while anyway.

How much is a decent salary and how long will it last until it isn't enough anymore? 

According to the interweb 75% of the police force have a minimum of 42000B per month plus some other benefits, like housing benefit, special credits at the bank, etc.

The average salary in Thailand is around 25000B.

Now tell me, is a BiB working so much more than an average Thai? 

The last 20 years I haven't seen one.

1 hour ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Where did it state that seatbelts weren't being used?

The first picture. You can see two impact marks on the windscreen folding the glass outwards.

3 hours ago, Hamus Yaigh said:

The most amusing/sad (take your pick) thing about this is that the lead story has no explanation of why the road is this way.

The explanation is, that they have resurfaced the old road which had the same kink in it. The building you see in the picture is the public toilets and those have a footpath in front. But anyways, this road is only leading to the temple and only get used to bypass the police checkpoint on the main road. You have to pass the temple area and leave it on the second entrance. So, this was a good decision not to straighten the short cut for drunken Somchai. Otherwise he would hit the temple with full speed in his Fortuner. 

6 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

I’m a Thai Apologist because I don’t agree with a post bashing Thai’s. 

 

 

At least you have presenting some ideas of what might happen, but all you have done is ‘project’ your negative bias to support your Thai Bash. 

 

Thai roads are no worse than the roads in the UK. 

 

On this plastic ending up in nature.... are you sure about that? projecting much ? of course, it may, or it may go back to recycling to make more ‘road material’ especially if it retains some value. 

 

 

I can see that you’ve given it so much thought...  You clearly thought about all these lorries driving around Koh Phi Phi !!!! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The first road made from plastic waste is located in Noppharat Thara Beach–Mu Ko Phi Phi National Park in Thailand’s Krabi province.

it is the first road, but will it be the only one?

The difference between your UK and Thailand is, that your government has cut the budget for development and maintenance of roadways. This is not the case here, the government is spending billions in upgrading the infrastructure. But the budget isn't fully used only for the projects for which it is meant.
I am not against recycling, we must stop polluting the planet. I am only against the hypocrite that they came up and be the first with this concept of re-using of plastic, which they are not. also I've a big antipathy to corruption and this is an easy opportunity for some to fill their pockets even more.

2 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

In this case, could it be that ‘someone Thai thought of it and someone Thai is in charge of it, so a lot must go wrong.....right ??? ????

 

 

I see, the Thai apologist.

Show me one decent stretch of road, which didn´t broke or needs repair after a year of completion. And all these streets are built without an asphalt-plastic mix.
So what will be possible happing? Syphoning more money into the own pockets due to cost cutting on the asphalt part and mixing the road surface in the wrong proportion. Which will disintegrate the roads even faster.
Have you ever seen how these roads are built? There is no standard procedure at all. Just slap a 5cm asphalt surface on top of compacted clay, most suitable on a rainy day, and hope for the best that it will withstand the permanent stress of overloaded lorries.
Someone has given a thought what will happen, after the lifetime of the road surface, with this waste? How this will get recycled? Just dump it in the nearest forrest? That is only adding one step more to the same ending only that some Hiso is filling his pockets in this procedure. On the end the plastic ends in the nature.