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The recording will be changed shortly and put on every travelator. The new recording with say: "The end of the walkaway is near, so lift your feet up, take care of your bags and drop your damned phones for a few minutes."

I gave a copy of my Last Will (Notarized and signed by 2 whitnesses) to my embassy in Bangkok. Another copy is at the office of my lawyer and the address is know by the Embassy. Never heard that this would be illegal.

In the same newspage, another header says "Thai woman sentenced to 18 months in prison on lèse majesté charge". TIT

I don't know if anybody followed the case of the teenage mother who dumped her baby in a river, but here is a follow up: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/court-orders-release-of-teenage-mother-who-dumped-baby-in-river/ Court orders release of teenage mother who dumped baby in river. The Juvenile and Family Court in Thailand’s Nakhon Pathom province today (Monday) ordered the release of the teenage mother who dumped the body of her 8-month-old baby into the Tha Chin River in February, after the public prosecutor failed to indict her within the 90-day limit. The court also ordered the return of 9,000-baht surety, put up by the Win Win Foundation as bail for the 17-year-old mother.

That is exactly the point. AOT doesn't own the travelator. AOT LEASES the travelator with a maintenance contract. Similar to the lifts in every building you can see and where a clear sign is attached that Hitachi or whatever company does the inspection and the maintenance. Hitachi Thailand Inc. has their own company with no commercial binding with Hitachi Japan and as thus is a fully independant company, run by Thai people. I remember that a law was passed in Germany (somewhere about 2000) that made the company where the machine is placed FULLY LIABLE for all accidents or mismanagements. This means that if the incident with the travelator had happened at (example) BMW Germany, BMW Germany would FULLY RESPONSIBLE for the incident. Don't know if Thailand adapted a similar law in the mean time.

Your explanation of what might have happened seems plausible, but there are some other things that might change the cause of the incident. 1. The case size, compared to the size of the tiles is over the normal size of a carry-on luggage and should not be on a travelator. 2. The handbag shows a cable used to charge cell-phones hanging out like it was recently used, which might point out the likelyhood that the lady was using her cell phone at the moment of the incident instead to look at the big sign warning her to watch her steps. 3. The case wheels are damaged at the small size, which proves that the case was going length wise on the travelator (by her side like a dog) rather than side ways (dragged before or after her). The OP says that the CCTV cameras showed the lady being hit by a large object, which caused her to fall on her bump. In this position it would be easy for the jeans or another clothe to get into the travelator and pull her leg into the mechanism.

Read again, more careful this time: "The BMW owner, 35, has been charged with using fake license plates. If convicted, she faces up to five years in jail and a maximum fine of 10,000 baht."

https://www.elevatorimagazine.com/en/escalators-and-movingwalks/ ACCIDENTS According to ELA – European Lift Association report, presented by Ebru Gemici-Loukas (“Industrial statistics of lifts & escalators”, Asansör Istanbul Conference” March 2015), in 2013 lift accidents were 835 (data referred to 18 out of 29 countries represented by ELA). 17 fatal accidents (no fatal accidents in Italy), 144 serious accidents (11 in Italy) and 674 minor accidents (85 in Italy).According to ELA – European Lift Association report, presented by Ebru Gemici-Loukas (“Industrial statistics of lifts & escalators”, Asansör Istanbul Conference” March 2015), in 2013 lift accidents were 835 (data referred to 18 out of 29 countries represented by ELA). 17 fatal accidents (no fatal accidents in Italy), 144 serious accidents (11 in Italy) and 674 minor accidents (85 in Italy).For escalators (data from 17 out of 29 countries), in the same year, accidents were 375: 3 fatal accidents, 24 serious accidents and 330 minor accidents (the report does not list accidents by countries). The majority of accidents (70%) is relevant to risks described by the EN115-2 (Safety of escalators and moving walks – Part 2: Rules for the improvement of safety of existing escalators and moving walks) standard, also known as SNEE (Safety Norm for Existing Escalators): slipping on steps/pallets/belt and on landings 28% – (1 fatal) falling from a landing 19% – (1 fatal) entrapment between skirting and steps 10% entrapment between combs steps/ballets/belt 5% entrapment at handrail entry points 5% improper use of an escalator to move a shopping cart 5% entrapment between steps or pallets 2% climbing the balustrade 1% – (1 fatal) crushing fingers between handrail and balustrade 1% falling due to stopping distance being too short 2% others 12%. In 2013, accidents relevant to escalators (data from 16 out of 29 countries – no data for each country) involving operators were 65: 2 fatal accidents, 10 serious accidents and 53 minor accidents. In this case, 36% is included in the cases covered by SNEE: insufficient space in working area 24% – (1 fatal) missing steps or pallets 5% no emergency stop switch in working area 2% – (1 fatal) electric shock due to contact with live parts 5% unsafe access to machine room 3% manual handling 17% unsafe working method 3% unsafe use of tools 2% others 32%.

Before blaming any people or any mechanical device we need to know if the travelator was blessed by the monks.

I strongly doubt that Hitachi would have their own engineers doing the maintenance. The Thai labour laws do not allowing foreigners to do a job that a Thai can do. Hitachi can learn Thai people to do the maintenance and then leave it to the Thai.

During work at my previous company, I was ordered to design a "complete monkey proof" pallet wrapper. The engineering team put their heads together and designed a pallet wrapper that was enclosed by a cage and could not work if the cage was open or the operator was inside the cage. A few weeks later we ware called because there was an accident with the wrapper. The operator had disabled all security devices and had entered the wrapper while it was running. Luckily for the operator someone pushed the emergency stop and nothing really nasty happened. Never underestimate the mind of a stupid. Nothing can be fool proof for them.

Forward thinking seems to got lost in the last generation. That's why you see warnings like "Don't drink the battery fluid" on batteries and other warnings you would never had think about 30 years ago. Sad but true.

I think that you are forgetting how most big companies work. AOT pays HITACHI for the installation AND the maintenance of the travelators. So, IF anybody should be sued, it would be HITACHI and not AOT.

Travelators and escalators are equipped with a power detector which detects when the system is forced to deliver more power than designed in normal use (an object blocking the travelator, a misalignment of the steps, etc.). In such cases, the power is switched OFF to avoid further damages to the installation. Same technique is used un elevators to detect if the maximum weight is passed.

The aot did not published the CCTV movie ...

That would have worked out a few decades ago, but today you can hit a policeman in the face and beat the s...t out of him and the policeman will be punished.

Should a walkway/escalator/whatever not be "Monkey Proof"? I had engineered several items in my carreer and all of them required a "Monkey Proof" test. PS.: Not saying that Thais are equal to Monkeys.

A lot of "sue them" and over-specialised answers to this thread but nobody cares about "the loss of image to this beautiful country" by this accident. Where are the regular posters in this forum with their "happens everywhere in the world"? Not only in Thailand. Speedy recovery to this woman.

Nobody blame the barking dog for who the kid was trying to escape? Strange ...

I was at The Mall in Nakhon Ratchasima a few days ago, and in one of these "Beauty Clinics" the had a special offer for face laser epilation for man and woman at 999 Baht. This seems very low priced and I would like to go on with that. The prospectus of never have to shave again is tempting. Did any members of ASEANNOW had a laser have experience with this and how are the results?

Then, I suggest that these members who are offended join a group who cares about this (name is in the title) and use their time to save these poor souls instead wasting their time in this group. Just like I did many years ago.

In 1976, I suffered a bursted appendix, but didn't pay too much attention to it. Only, after 3 days, I had a terrible belly ache and I went straight to the hospital. The diagnose was a bursted appendix and a dangerous level of white blood cells. Thee doctors started immediatly with surgery and I was kept in an artificial induced Coma for 1 month. Luckely, I did keep all my limbs.

What I don't understand, is the outrage of some members over this "Catching of underaged girls into prostitution". Everytime something like this happens, it is only because of some NGO making an official complaint and forcing the Police to send a few man to look at this. Otherwise, NOBODY of the Police would be bothered with this and as long as the bar/karaoke owners fill the brown enveloppes everything is fine. The Police will even do an inspection with the full force trough Walking Street in Pattaya without finding a single prostitute. There are tens/hundred thousend underaged girls in Thailand, working every day in the sex industry. Many of them against their own will or forced by their parents out of poverty. Why is the RTP not doing their job and protect these children? They might satisfy the few members of this group that are outraged by this behavior in Thailand.

Exactly this, a social field worker, was my side job in Belgium. Had a few girls/woman who went it work in a bar at the shipyards in order to make money for their pimp. Nothing that I could change without risking my own life.