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I've stopped using Tuk-Tuks right after my tourist days. Bunch of overcharging gangsters polluting the environment with their noisy, smelly two-stroke engines.

Stop what losses, please? I'm sure they spent more of their pension money here than their visa fees would have been.

Where are the yellow/red cards for Thais?? 

Some of the comments here make me doubt if some male human specimens ever made it down the trees, mentally. 

1 hour ago, richard_smith237 said:

Indeed it is tragic and the authorities can definitely do more to reduce this sort of loss.

 

One of the best methods would be to teach road safety in schools... Many kids go to School in Thailand and are ‘rote taught’ (if thats the correct term) subjects which they will never need.... But life-skills are something every single child will grow up to rely on....  Teaching Road Safety (car / motorcycle / pedestrian), First Aid, Water Safety etc....  

 

... When nearly every single person in Thailand grows up to drive a car or motorcycle its astonishing that far more time is not given to an activity they will pretty much definitely undertake - Instead Thailand has a system where the vast majority are not even trained. 

 

Of course, this wouldn’t prevent all accidents but it ‘could’ place a significant den’t in the stats (combined with better enforcement of course).

 

These basic flaws contribute to the failing of safety at this most fundamental level. 

 

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At least this wasn’t someone in a car wiping out a load of cyclists....

 

 

 

 

Can't teach brain. The utter disregard for one's own safety and that of others is simply breathtaking here. And the kind of families such youngsters come from (welder with 15 years) may have a different set of life skills than the ones reading this and are usually not very receptive to road safety lessons. 

The pickup driver is most at fault in my eyes. With a truckload full of kids in the back, he must just stop at the roadside and let the idiot pass. But instead he drives recklessly fast and tries to stay ahead of the lorry. 

Thais are used to sticking with outdated customs and beliefs.