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On 2/21/2020 at 11:39 AM, tlandtday said:

Don't jumpt to conclusions it is entirely possible poor thais avoid the checkpoints because they may not have money for a helmet or they simply may not have a helmet and 500 baht is a lot of money to many of them.  How long have you lived here?

I see. But they have money to buy/rent a motorbike. Presumably then, they don't have money for insurance either? So why are they on the road?

6 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

Doesn't seem the case here... in the photo you can see inside the Merc - looks like the film / tint is not too dark etc.. 

 

Maybe the Merc Driver was drunk; not uncommon here, but yet to be determined, or had simply fallen asleep; again, not uncommon here and again, yet to be determined. 

 

At least the Merc driver hasn't claimed brake failure or something stuck under the pedal.

 

What of the poor deceased? can it be assumed he was outside of his car when it was hit and thus also hit at the same time? If so, his fatal mistake was to remain in a vulnerable position. 

 

There is a tragic lack of information and education for regular every day folk who use the roads, info-mercials (information commercials) at key times throughout the day (i.e. prime time) have the potential to reach millions of folk with the simplest of safety messages. When the RTA stats are so poor and damning I fail to understand why a government who care about the issue don't employ this tactic, unless of course they don't really give a damn.

Lack of information?? When I went to renew my 5 year driving licence, I had to sit through a road safety film for about an hour. There were 2 Thai men in there. One of them was asleep across 3 seats and the other was playing on his phone. It's not lack of information, they just don't give a toss.

There are a couple of shops in Market Village, top floor just as you get off the escalator. Also one on the 2nd floor.