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Completed TM47. Copy of DTV e-visa. This was not wanted by Immigration. However, if your visa was stamped in your passport they did require a copy of that page. Copy of entry stamp page of passport. Copy of details page of passport. Copy of TM30. Jomtien. Processing time was quoted as one hour but in reality more like forty minutes. No appointment necessary. No ticket number necessary, just go straight to the 90-day desk = first desk of first building on the right. Do not go to the main information desk where queue numbers are handed out. There is no need for queue tickets for 90-day reports.

This one will escalate rapidly. And then either a negotiated settlement for less than 8 million or stuck in the legal system for years or the bad way (final solution).

You are completely missing the point and continuing in your vein of posting very non-constructive posts. Always picking out something you can contradict. I have repeatedly stated that the blame lies with the Hyundai driver. Please acknowledge this. I have then go on to talk about defensive driving. This is a technique in which despite the dangerous driving of others, you can increase the chance of avoiding an accident. This is particularly important when riding a motorcycle. You continue to ignore this point. Defensive driving is what you can do to minimise the risk to yourself despite the idiocy of others. Please have a good look in the mirror and consider what you are hoping to achieve by posting here. Currently your posts are really not positive, constructive, helpful, balanced or contributing anything worthwhile. Now would be an excellent time to change your ways.

Excellent post. That is a bicycle lane not a hard shoulder, also not a designated motorcycle lane. Whoever made the road sign has acquiesced to the norm of motorcycles using bicycle lanes. However the law states they shouldn't. Bicycle lanes are for bicycles, not for pedestrians, not for motorcycles. I would urge you to register a complaint with Chantaburi Highway Maintenance. This is clearly incorrect and as you point out a "mixed message".

@Patong2021 Completely agree. The accident was caused by the Hyundai driver.

That sign references the law under which motorcycles need to remain in the left hand lane, not the hard shoulder. The sign does not instruct or allow motorcyclists to use the hard shoulder. That is not the law. However, I am well aware it is the cultural norm for road users in Thailand to consider the hard shoulder as the de facto motorcycle lane. This is not the law though.

Yes, I agree. That is why I said "Whilst the foreigner was definitely the major contributor to this accident and deserves to be prosecuted for careless driving" If the motorcyclist had driven more defensively, which he should have been doing as he was going too fast and doing 2 illegal manouevres, he may have avoided the accident. If you read what I wrote I talked about learning from the experience. As a motorcyclist you are very vulnerable and you need to be aware of other people doing unexpected dangerous things as this Hyundai driver did. Undertaking on the hard shoulder at considerable speed is inherently dangerous and is not defensive driving. If the motorcyclist thinks it is fine to blast along in a straight line on the hard shoulder, irrespective of the traffic conditions, he is taking a considerable risk. The lessons he should take away are i. You cannot be seen from the outside lane if you are riding on the hard shoulder. ii. You cannot see the outer lanes well if you are riding on the hard shoulder. iii. Undertaking and riding on the hard shoulder are illegal. If you want to do them, take extreme care. iv. Consider speed differential. i.e. how much faster am I going than the traffic flow. v. Look there is a major turnoff to a petrol station. What is going to happen, cars going in or out? I should slow down. v. Putting all these together he needed to consider that every time he undertook a car, he was effectively popping out from a blind entrance at speed. He could not see and he could not be seen. In summary, the blame for the accident lies with the car driver but to say the motorcyclist did not take significant risk shows a lack of awareness of how to safely ride a bike in heavy traffic. I have ridden bikes daily for almost 40 years and am still here to tell the tale.

Laem Chabang does not really have a beach. There are little stretches further north. And yes you will see a lot of shipping containers everywhere. The nearest beach to Bang Na (district of Bangkok) would typically be classed as Bang Saen. Not far from Bang Na you do have Bang Poo in Samut Prakan which has chalets, a pier, mud flats rather than a beach and mangrove forest. It is nice and quiet.

Whilst the foreigner was definitely the major contributor to this accident and deserves to be prosecuted for careless driving, the motorcyclist who was knocked off was i. undertaking ii. riding on the hard shoulder (normal in Thailand but the foreigner may not have expected that) iii. certainly riding too fast for traffic conditions, possibly over the speed limit iv. was definitely slow in beginning braking showing he was not paying attention v. seemed to brake rather gently with his foot out rather than an emergency stop which was what was required The motorcyclist will justifiably claim it was the Hyundai driver's fault but it is clear to me that he can learn lessons here, particularly regarding undertaking, excessive speed and awareness of both turnings and the movement of other vehicles. I am glad it looked like serious injury was avoided.

I cannot understand your cryptic responses. Are you making them deliberately vague and ambiguous? Perhaps you are using language specific to a certain group. Are you a follower of QAnon and do you have any of their paraphernalia such as a flag or T-shirt? Do you have any information regarding what is being said about the killing of Edgar Welch?

What do you mean?

Thanks for the update. Your last sentence suggests you might at some point wish to apply for Permant Residence in Thailand (PR). You need to have worked in Thailand for a minimum of 3 years to even apply but yet you state you come here on trips suggesting you don't work in Thailand. Also to apply for the DTV, there is no family option. You can apply as a remote worker or you can apply under the second option "soft power" which requires you to have a confirmed medical appointment in Thailand or a course of some sort. If you prepare, you will get a DTV but it won't be on the basis of having a Thai child. DTV is a good bet. I hope you find a solution.

@Celsius Try Harbor in Laem Chabang. Escape the tourist hordes. Still have the "seaside atmosphere". You will find your money goes a lot further in the food court. 🤗

There is also this strange phenomenon when doing U-turns of not having the steering wheel on full lock, not utilising the slip lane if there is one and and bizarrely crossing all lanes of the highway perpendicular to the oncoming traffic at relatively slow speed only to then zigzag back across all the lanes whilst accelerating but still markedly slower than the oncoming traffic. It makes no sense. It is as if they want to make the manoeuvre as dangerous as possible. The goal should be to complete the manoeuvre safely but also quickly to place yourself back into the direction of traffic at an appropriate speed. The whole manoeuvre should be envisaged before commencing it. In this case I wonder if the pick-up was attempting to get over to the inside to make a left turn and the motorcyclist assumed he would just make a tight U-turn and as a result they both ended up in the same spot. Either way he should have not driven into the path of the oncoming motorcycle. Another completely avoidable fatality on Thailand's very dangerous roads.

Nice work by the Phuket cops. I wonder what they will receive as a reward.

If anybody is wondering, this is in Phichit province. (Which is not in Isaan)

You may find in the long distant past, there was a point at which 2 sois that did not join were joined together to form a cut-through.

It seems to be the top hobby of every technical college student to make a gun so if the black market of brand-name guns are too expensive, there are cheaper alternatives.

He either set off early or he was out in the forest overnight, so he was, Mr Daniel.

Are those the traffic lights in the distance? He must have been going at quite a speed to finish up so far away if that is the case.

It is wonderful that 6 people from different nationalities can all get along having a game of dice on the beach. I think that is great.

Has it completely snapped or just deformed? I had the same issue. I took it to bag repairers but they only wanted leather stitching and the like. Remarkably as it had only deformed I gave it a hefty whack and it bounced back into shape. The only similar thing I have seen is mechanics pulling a dent out of the bodywork of a damaged car. It is still working fine today.

Indeed, but do the QAnon crowd believe that is what happened or was he 'eliminated' because he knew too much and what did he know?

Is this a good example of a "Karen"? I never truly grasped what a "Karen" was other than a derogatory term for a woman, particularly one that specialised in complaining.

Was he expelled from QAnon? I would have thought they would have given him a medal for his heroics. Has Donald Trump made an official comment yet? I have not come across anything reported.