Classic Ray

I expect they will object to applicants for PSV licences who have convictions for assault, dishonesty, drugs or sexual offences.

How about those on marriage as well as retirement visa/extensions? I expect they will be lumped in as tourists with the usual unwelcoming attitude to these “foreigners”.

So nothing to do with raising money by extension fee between 30-60 days rather than 60 days free?

Let’s hope craft breweries are also included in the ability to be listed and raise investment funds in the same way.

Any insurance cost should be applied to the operators, not the passengers. Otherwise there is no incentive for them to increase safety. The increase in fares should be zero or minimal as the risk of an incident is very low.

It just happens that Sino Thai is owned by Khun Anutin’s family and are Italian Thai’s main competitor in Thailand.

There are several well respected and independent collision investigations bodies in other countries who would be available to review the evidence and provide an untainted opinion regarding likely speed. But just because they determine he was not exceeding a speed limit does not mean his speed was not reckless under the circumstances. Speed limits are maximums, not recommended levels in all circumstances.

If they examined the statistics from previous years they would see that the measures they take are ineffective. Someone in RTP needs to use their brain cell to realise that only proper stop checks both by mobile patrols and static checkpoints can do anything to reduce the toll. In Western countries it is the fear of arrest and consequences of harsh penalties that reduces offending, not the actual number arrested.

Never a mention of increased mobile patrols to catch offenders. There is very little effective prevention or detection of road offenders here. Just static checkpoints for tea money, or escorting VIP convoys of coaches. Most patrol vehicles are pickups for placing cones and scooters for manning traffic points in rush hours. it’s pathetic really.

Thailand has all the laws they need, yet little enforcement or will to insist on it. Until a culture of valuing human life and not relying on fate to determine outcomes, nothing will change. Most people don’t even want to wear crash helmets or provide child seats for their kids. Carrying people in pickup beds or multiple kids on motorbikes is never questioned. No wonder so many die.

Brake failure?

Even strait laced and restrictive Singapore has legalised sex shops where toys can be bought, and the country has not collapsed from immoral behaviour. Time to legalise and regulate. Laughable that girlie bars and cannabis shops are allowed to operate but dildoes are verboten!

I previously had SS cover, but when I started a new contract after the age of 60, I was not allowed to be a member of the SS scheme. When I was knocked off my motorbike in Chiang Mai some years ago I was not allowed to leave the private hospital until the offending driver’s insurance company had coughed up the money for the treatment, including operation and ICU stay. Fortunately now my wife has a Govt job so I get almost free (50 baht) treatment at Govt hospitals.

Safety glass for domestic and commercial buildings still not reached Thailand? Should not just be restricted to vehicles.

Wouldn’t he have been identified anyway when his passport was checked at the border? Or isn’t the computer system in use there?