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tomacht8

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  1. No matter what kind of electoral system exists, the basic requirement is that only honest people are selectable,
    which are willing to have a full scrutiny about their past and their finances including a public review of the origin of assets with
    matching tax declarations before they come on election lists.

    No criminals and/or corrupt people on electoral lists!
    No criminals and/or corrupt people in government, parliament or as a civil servant!
    Excluded are all persons from Parliament and from electoral lists which
    a have criminal records.
    b running free on bail.
    c were already banned from parliament in the past.
    d against are corruption or crime cases opened.

    Important is, to make it impossible for all criminals and corrupt people to have access to public offices or public money.
  2. Anyone knows that parking your car on a highway is risking your life. Since this water truck was hardly moving, it is akin to parking your car on the middle of the highway. Slow moving vehicles obviously should not be on a highway. You can blame the driver of the van for speeding, but in this case it's clear what caused the accident, the water truck!

    I used to work for the police in the UK and took a police driving test there. One of the first things the examiner told me after the test was that if you cannot stop safely and without changing lanes then you are driving too fast for the road conditions.

    Correct driving speed: one must always be able to stop within half the sight distance.

    The Minivan driver has not adhered to this principle and is clearly driven too fast.

    It does not matter what type of barrier appears on the road.

    In this case it could have be also the last car, staying in a traffic jam queue.

    Who crash into a car from behind, is the culprit.

    To maintain the correct safety distance and traffic conditions adapted speed,

    many drivers simply have not learned it here!

  3. I was surprised to find that Thailand is tied with Russia for the second most traffic fatalities. Unsurprisingly, the U.S. is first. I knew there a large number of fatalities in Thailand, but to think that a country of 76 million is runner up to a country of something like 300 million is mind boggling.

    U.S. 36,000. 11.6 per 100,000 population

    Thailand 26,000. 38.1 per 100,000. 2nd highest in the world (Libya at 40.5)

    2010 statistics.

    From http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate

    Have to wonder how many of Thailand's are motorcycle with no helmet.

    Interesting.

    motorcycle with no helmet.

    I live on an island and the biggest problem are the crazy local minibus and taxi drivers rustling with 80-100 km / h over populated narrow asphalt slopes.

    They know, that some drunken Foreigners make u-turns before the girly bars.

    Even there helmes didn´t help them to survive.

    To install and inforce some speedlimits on critical points must be there first task, in my opinion.

  4. Stopping distance = reaction time + braking distance
    Speed (km(h)
    reaction time = ------------------- x 3
    10
    Speed (km(h)
    normal braking distance = --------------------- x 10
    10
    So if you drive 100 (km/h)
    the stopping distance is 130 meters.
    the reaction time only is 30 meters.
    If then an unskilled minibus driver, drive with 100 km/h in 5 meters distance on my rear bumper, it is an idiot then.
    No driving license for minibus and bus drivers who do not understand these simple physical formulas!
  5. Potentially the new police chief has the opportunity now to show us real change.......

    Driver Chatchai Adirekwutthikul, 26, was uninjured. Police said his blood alcohol level did not exceed legal limits. He’ll be charged with damaging public property and reckless driving resulting in injury

    plus an additional charge of driving a vehicle without licence plates, possibly without insurance as well ?

    Maybe while we're at it we might as well check how the vehicle was imported ?

    Fine him with 500 Bahts for reckless driving.

    Let the hurt people sue the driver on millions out.

    But if the car was purchased without import tax,

    the state should then collect 10 million baht tax +

    10 million baht as punishment for tax evasion.

  6. Charnchai said he would appeal against the ruling.

    So for the next 3 years he will not sit in prison.

    After the appeal he will get a sentence with suspension of jail term.

    After that you will find his name back on the electoral lists.

    Didn't see anywhere that he is on bail, so he is in prison.

    He can still appeal from inside as long as he or someone else provides the funds.

    In this case if he hasn't got it himself then the party and its owner wont waste money on him.

    http://202.47.224.92/en/news.php?id=255008130046

    He is out on bail since 13.08.2007

    Now he appeal.

    I do not think he is now in prison.

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