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Quite often the trucks stay on the left and then suddenly just go for it, and cut across the lanes. It's not always obvious that they're intending to do an u-turn. And it's the truck drivers' responsibility to check the road is clear before doing such move. My guess is that the pickup driver didn't expect the truck to make the turn, and once realised it it was too late to slow down on time. But of course, it could be that he wasn't paying attention - often many accidents like these can be avoided with being alert.

Wasn't it pretty obvious from the post that the truck cut them off? If you follow some local FB pages you see this is a common occurrence: trucks just aggressively pulling an u-turn accross 3 lanes without looking. I lost also one colleague to one of these idiot truck drivers.

I thought the answer would have been: only 1 in 14 CCTV cameras work on average in Thailand, so by placing 14 they ensure at least one is working.

The lockdowns cause more harm than good and don't even seem to be effective. The virus is not going to disappear anywhere, but the longer they keep restricting business openings (etc.) the more people will suffer. It's total madness for a virus with a less than 1% death rate - which is mostly among the risk groups (who of course, should be offered the best help possible to allow isolation and medical care). I would estimate most socially active people will eventually get some variant of the virus - hopefully after being vaccinated.

Let's not forget Thailand doesn't have a "police force" in the Western meaning of the term. There is actually quite a big difference.

IMHO a situation where the economy and peoples' livelihoods of a country get destroyed doesn't really demonstrate a good handling of the pandemic, even if they managed to get to zero infections per day. Reducing transmissions is one thing, but at what cost? It would be interesting to compare the number of destroyed lives from the lockdowns vs. the number (and the possible number) of deaths from the virus itself.

Yes great - hope they're jailed. How dare they have dinner. The music after 9pm might wake up the sleeping coronavirus..

Yeah it's very confusing. I've seen so many news with arrests e.g. in Chiang Mai 7 people drinking in a rented villa. But the limit is no gatherings of more than 20? We cancelled our company party because of this random enforcement, even though we're under 20 people and not in a dark red province.