Confuscious

6 hours ago, kevozman1 said:

Oddly enough this incident where a Thai was killed by another Thai gets way less traction than some Brit guy who crashed into a few parked cars/bikes.  Really highlights the trash that circulate this site. Probably the one's in their condo 167 hours in a week and the one hour they come out they wouldn't say say boo to a goose. Stay low.

This is the same all over the world.
Not only in Thailand.
I remember a case where a policeman was murdered by a drunk driver in Belgium and the case was not even reported in the newspapers.
The driver was a member of the national football team.
 

Unfortunately, this taxi driver was not driving a Ferrari.
Otherwise he could have done a runner.

1 hour ago, Puccini said:

 

You posted images of three different vehicles but didn't label any of them with "A" or "B"

 

Therefore my question is: which of the three vehicles is "A" and which one is "B"?

There is no image "A" or "B".

Most of the posters have figured that out without further questions.

The question was why a driver license is not required for a particular image (wheelchair assisted by electric traction) but is required for another image (electric 3-wheeler).

When assigning random images to a question they can be named by "A, B, C, etc"

Why are their faces blurred out?

Name and shame the lawlifes publicly.

1 hour ago, john donson said:

some people are still against DEATH PENALTY

Enough cases publshed about people who go the deatth penalty and were proven innocent later.
No way to bring them back to life.
But I am for the death penalty the day you face the death penalty and I am willing to fulfill that on you.
 

18 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Thirayu also shared a video of the ordeal, which showed that the man was carrying condoms, indicating his intent to rape him. 

 

Thirayu was urged by the police to either accept compensation from the man or file a complaint at the police station. Since he was in a rush, he accepted 3,000 baht from the man as compensation.

Another "wanna-bee" Social Media infuencer ...
Skip the thread and go on ....

And next Zuckerberg's Face<deleted>/Meta and Google.

20 hours ago, mancub said:

Excuse me. but Why ?

The police report and eventual fine depends on the level of the injuries.
If the pedestrian will stay less than 14 days in the hospital, the charges against the taxi driver will be "MINOR injuries".
If the pedestrian will stay more that 14 days in the hospital, the charges against the taxi driver will be "GRAVE injuries".
Also the charges depends on the report of the hospital about the accident.
Example.: Will the pedestrian be able to recapitulate work after 2 weeks or not?

2 possibilities for this guy:

1. He goes into exile.
2. He has an accident and dies.

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Nevertheless, the NACC is yet obliged to investigate allegations of power abuse committed by the prime minister following a petition earlier lodged by former police chief Seripisut Temiyavej, said NACC secretary-general Niwatichai Kasemmongkol.

Is that the same NACC who investigated the "watches" case which were given by a "friend"?

There is no "sex-tourism", it is a Buddhist thing.

8 minutes ago, 0ffshore360 said:

Outside of  a degree  of expected  humanitarian considerations the SUV driver is right .

Exactly

45 minutes ago, Ben Zioner said:

So, is that a reason not to let the Insurance representative handle the case? As the driver apparently did. At the dismay of the other injured party?

I had 3 accidents with my car, and 1 of them was serious for the other party.

On all 3 accidents I let the insurance AND my lawyer handle the case.

If I would have left it to the insurance, I would be in fault and pay for everything.

Lucky, my lawyer didn't accept the crap from the insurer and I won 3 times 

But I accepted the offer from the police in the 3rd accident and let my insurance foot the bill (1st class).

No big change in my insurance the year after .

48 minutes ago, Ben Zioner said:

U ought to be specific.

 

You answerred your own question here.

The limit of the insurance pay-out would be 3 million baht (according to your post).
A few weeks in the ICU can be more expensive as 3 million baht

1 hour ago, Ben Zioner said:

If the Mux driver has an A1 insurance it the right thing to do to hande the matter over to the insurer.

Even with a class #1 car insurance, the payout in case of an accident has a limit.
As this guy is in ICU, the costs can reach the top of the payout very easy.

8 hours ago, Thingamabob said:

Poor guy. I'm hearing he has died. If that is so, RIP.

He was anyhow better off dead after putting himself in fire.
He would have been disabled for life.

Reusable bottle, used worldwide during many centuries.
And you can use it even for wine.

 

What was wrong with the old water dispensers?
Why did they need to take them out and replace them with plastic bottles?
When I grew up, there used to be  almost everywhere "free water taps" where you could drink fresh water.
People who needed to drink more fluid carried a Tin can with them.
Even almost every Spanish used to carry a bottle (bodeja) with fluid with them.

As I recall, nobody died from that.

"Plastic, the future for mankind", Diatribe of the Green movement in the '70's.

12 minutes ago, kwilco said:

no it won't

Claiming that reducing the amount of people on a pickup bed will not reduce the number of death/injured people In an accident, shows the IGNORANT you are and not worth to have a discussion with.

12 minutes ago, kwilco said:

not significantly

Thus you admit that reducing the amount of people on a pickup bed will have an impact, although not big, on the amount of dead/injured people in which case I will come to the same conclusion that you are not worth to have a discussion with.

Goodbye

6 minutes ago, kwilco said:

pointing out single issues just shows a lack of appreciation of the road safety situation in Thailand.

Do you seriously think that raomving passengers from the back of pickups will "cure" Thailand's raod safety ills?

 

The truth is there needs to be a comprehensive understanding of the problems and a systematic holistic approach - piece meal bandaids don't work.

Enforcing the law about the number of people in the load area of a pickup is not going to end the road safety problems but it will surely reduce the amount of casualties.
The same way as enforcing the law about the number of people on a motorbike or not wearing a helmet.

Rome was not build on 1 day.
 

7 hours ago, keith101 said:

From memory these numbers never include those that die on the way to hospital or after they get there so they could be a lot higher

"A fatality is defined as a death within 30 days of a crash."

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in_Thailand_by_year)
 

1 hour ago, worgeordie said:

While the number of deaths and injuries on Thai roads is unexceptable ,

there are wider complications ,some of these people that have ded ,

would have been breadwinners for families , workers in positions that

will now need to be filled, these peoples deaths & injuries are going

to cause a lot of problems for Thailand .....RIP those that have died

and a swift recovery for those injured  ,

 

regards worgeordie

https://www.who.int/thailand/news/feature-stories/detail/turning-tragedy-into-action--advocacy-and-survival-on-thailand-s-roads#:~:text=In Thailand%2C road traffic accidents,sole cause of these accidents.

In Thailand, road traffic accidents result in about 20,000 deaths and a million injuries each year, incurring an economic loss of 500,000 million baht. While drunk driving is a significant contributing factor, it is not the sole cause of these accidents. This photo essay goes beyond the statistics, portraying the real faces and stories of survivors, advocating for urgent reforms and heightened road safety awareness. It aims to transform impersonal data into powerful narratives of human resilience, underscoring the need for safer roads.