lordgrinz

TIT.....nobody cares about safety, never have, and never will. When the parents of the children don't even care about safety in their own private lives, and drive like lunatics while teaching their kids the same bad habits, we shouldn't expect them to champion any safety initiatives.

Yeah, start with the school minibuses where the drivers have disabled the seatbelts with zipties.

Well, he won't do that again.

Is this what they call "reefer madness"?

Well, it's like all the other laws here, they're only considered suggestions, very few follow or care about laws in Thailand. Plus we all know the RTP is asleep at the wheel, so nothing to fear from them.

Nah, he fell way before the truck mirror, he misjudged the room and grabbed a handful of front brake and put down his right foot, started sliding and slid until he hit the front right wheel of the pickup truck. You can see his handlebars turn dramatically to the right when he locked up the front wheel. Piss poor training, or as is common here in Thailand, no training at all. The weird parti, s that he had plenty of room, if he just finessed his way through, he freaked and made one of the biggest mistake you can make on a bike (grabbing a fistful of brakes, and putting your foot down).

Yup, scary stuff and suicidal!.....But nowhere near as dangerous as the canal road near my house, it's a very narrow two lane road separated by a center line only, tons of motorcycles assume they have the right to travel down the center yellow line between oncoming traffic lanes full of cars. Woman the other day on a motorcycle hit my mirror with hers while driving down the middle center yellow line head-on with me, she is lucky she didn't hit her mirror mount, just the mirror itself, or she would have suffered the same fate as this guy did. Motorcycles are supposed to be to the left of the lane, not driving down the center lane between oncoming traffic. Personally, I wouldn't split lanes under any circumstances here, filtering is OK, but splitting lanes in Thailand is suicidal. I mean if nothing else, the RTP needs to at least stop some of the very dangerous suicidal drivers.

Next week he will probably get a "certificate of innocence", he can then smile when he returns and joins the other pigs at the community trough.

He should enjoy his many years in jail, hope it was worth the short-term gain.

What the heck is the motorcycle driver doing in the farthest right lane? You can see a motorcycle 2 lanes over in the video, where he should also be! Splitting Lanes in the fast lane is nuts! Far as I know he's not even permitted in those 2 far right lanes.

My wife works in one of those medical schools, she works her ass off, I know she is doing her part 😉

Those red and blue lights seem pretty far down the road, the Maserati must have rolled for quite a bit before stopping.

Probably right, hopefully they have some evidence of who was on what side of the road, though you would think there would be some evidence of the impact on the pavement where they hit each other.

The picture also looks like there is a bike lane on only one-side of the road, the other side looks like a narrow lane, with a guardrail, with no breakdown lane available. You'll also notice the motorcycle is on the right side of the road next to the guardrail. So both vehicles ended up on opposite sides of the road.

I believe they are saying it's an exit for a U-Turn under the overpass.

Or the motorcycle was on the wrong side of the road, and the Maserati hit him while steering away from the bike....thus ending up on the other side of the road, mainly because his tire and rim are destroyed, and he can't control the car anymore. Could be a thousand things, nobody knows until they are finished investigating, be nice if there was a dashcam, or CCTV.

Look at the damage again, and the dead body, he was speeding....PERIOD! If it was because he made the attempt too late, that's his fault, but nobody takes an exit at any speed that would cause that much damage.

Was I the only person who came here thinking he would see a picture of Thaksin?

Sex toys?! This is what is so important to stop in Thailand? Meanwhile, the streets, sidewalks, and Zebra crossings are deadly places to be while the daily carnage goes on unabated. TIT .....the Land of Lunacy!

Yup, the apologists for the terrorists are getting out of control, I hope the IDF continues to hammer their enemies into the ground.

By the damage and dead body, he did.

Tough call, buy at 7-11, or try your luck at the Hepatitis-A street food vendor table....."Hmmm, do I feel lucky?"

Which is why we all need dashcams, I've found Thai's like to lie about traffic accidents. I would trust the Dashcam first, foreigners testimony second, and totally ignore the Thai drivers testimonies.

I mean if we are going to split hairs, there are no officials actively enforcing any laws, rules, regulations anywhere in Thailand. Does the author actually leave their cubicle every once in a while?

First time I've seen a Taxi driver do the right thing, and slow down! Too bad the cocoNUT behind the wheel of the pickup truck didn't follow his lead.