Tropicalevo

Neither did the concrete truck - which this article is all about. What was the point of your comment? Back on topic - that poor lady's car looks to be totally flattened.

Empathy is about as common as rocking horse schitt in the comments' sections these days.

I live on Koh Samui. This lawyer cannot help. You need a local one. The embassy can provide details of suggested lawyers. I did it all by email. You do not need to go to the embassy unless you want to. As I said, they were very helpful and quick. My problem was the hospital on a money grab, They hung on to the the body as long as possible. I had to call in a couple of 'influential' people to get them to release the body. This is on Samui. Where your friend died may b more foreigner friendly. Good luck. Stressful times

My wife died suddenly, without a will. She was British. The law in Thailand is simple - my wife's direct family and I all share any assets. I do cannot remember if it is equal shares or 50% to her family and 50% to me. I had her mother and all siblings write letters to the court saying that they wanted nothing from my wife's estate. They were on call in case the judge wanted to video call them. That would have been interesting as only two of them had smart phones and/or a computer. Six months later and 35,000 baht bill and I was given judgement for all of my wife's assets. (Everything was in her name - she was ten years younger than me and I was supposed to die first.) The case was uncontested. Pick a lawyer in the area where you man died. I would be concerned if his 'friend' had the pin number, phone and ATM cards. Get a copy of the death certificate as soon as possible and contact the British embassy. They were brilliant in the case of my wife's death. They will advise you. The daughter may need to be involved. If said 'friend' has access to the bank - tell the bank about the death and to freeze the accounts. Otherwise do not bother. Get the cards etc and transfer the money out. That is what I did with my wife's account. I had access to her on-line banking and phone. Good luck. The process is slow but straight forward with a good lawyer.

The guy in the photo looks as guilty as sin to me. Oops - wrong crime.

I do not have an ADV but whenever I put my PCX in for a service, it is quite 'bouncy' afterwards. The guys there definitely over-inflate the tyres. After a while, it settles down.... .........until the next service of course. The bike is two up more often than solo. The passenger feels it more than I do.

Maybe the jet-ski operator did not realise that he had hit anything?

Perfect thank you.

Very true. I believe that lack of awareness and not 'reading the road' are the cause of many accidents here. I was told not to look at the vehicle in front, but to look at the ones in front of that one. Then you can anticipate (to a point) what everyone is doing. On the small roads here, I hate being behind the minivans with blacked out windows - almost impossible to see what is in front of them.

Is this still valid? I have a UK passport and will be visiting Vietnam for 5 days. Flying direct to Da Nang from Bangkok.

What on earth is the complaint here? That the PM is using a prompt or that she is using an iPad. I realise that using an iPad shows poor taste, but it is a personal preference. All world leaders use prompts.

No probs. I learn new stuff every day and I am only 73. Thanks for all of your articles.

First time I have ever heard that phrase. Thanks to DuckDuckGo for the answer. Step 3. Smoke Logging If a building isn’t properly ventilated, it could become smoke logged in several minutes. While this smoke will primarily consist of entrained air, it’s also possible for a substantial amount of asphyxiates and toxic substances to be present in the smoke as well. In this scenario, the smoke could disorientate an individual within seconds. This same individual could die in a matter of minutes.

Police probably own some of the cars?

The statute of limitations is up on 25th October this year. What a coincidence. They only do that to politicians that they want to punish.

That may be true in some cases, but it is not cultural. Necessity plays a large part - especially in rural areas. Parents cannot find work near the family home so move away to work elsewhere. But, they do send money home when they can. Samui is full of mainland folk sending money back to their families. This is repeated all over Thailand.

Unless they get more cash of course.

Any help is greatly appreciated I am sure.

It would have looked different from the front.

Whether we like it or not, the parents are the legal guardians and as such, should have the cash. If the child, living with gran, should kill someone, who would be blames. I suggest that it would be the absent parents. The tricky bit is when the parents are separated. The whole thing is a difficult conundrum.

The calf looks very sorry.

Back in the day in the UK, a lot of effort went into teaching kids and adults the basics of road safety. At schools and by using public service adverts on TV. If only for the basics - they were drummed into us time and time again. Stop, look and listen before you cross. Look right, look left and look right again. Keep on looking as you walk across the road. Rules at zebra and pelican crossings. Wear something light (white) at night etc etc The public service adverts even advised about parking, dipped headlights and so on. But of course, we cannot teach the Thai government anything. Slightly off topic -

They are going to need a lot of these little things if they want to defend their borders. The little bird range range is about 450 kilometers. As for Malaysia.......

Why the victim blaming? Maybe the parents did not know? The fault here is 100% the drunk driver.

Therein lies a problem here in Thailand, where overweight vehicles are the norm.