Bus Overturns on a Phetchaburi Road, Injuring 28

Uncountable accidents are happening day after day, and nothing really nothing is been done to reduce them. Everybody normal thinking human being knows that the time between 3 am and 5 am is the time that the most accidents happen because of tiredness,, How easy can things be solved not only for busses but also for trucks.. Ban them from the road between 1 am and 5 am. Only for their own safety. I know many complaints i will receive as people think it is better to travel at night for all kind of reasons, but nobody cares about the dangerous for the drivers and the people they are transporting or the freight they carry. Changing behaviors, as many things that should change in Thailand, to make roads safer for everyone

Time to fit and vigorously enforce tacographs on all buses and heavy vehicles for everyone's benefit.

Remember when they were going to ban the double decker buses?

Fortunately, the minor injuries suggest that passengers were wearing the seatbelts.

Unless there was really mechanical failure, the driver fell asleep. Very hard to regain control of such a big vehicle.

I disagree with the OP. Siplor and other big trucks including dump trucks and heavy equipment trucks should be banned from 5am to 10pm.

I worked night shift, why can't other workers. Of course, this wouldn't 'cure' traffic jams but it would sure help with the pollution these trucks generate.

Left hand lanes for buses ONLY with fines to make that reality.

So what kind of license do you need to drive a bus in Thailand? Same as a car with zero training? What about an air brake ticket? Well at least he didn't run. Life is cheap here.

Guess it was the brake failure... as usual, instead of incomptetent driver. The report doesn't even say if the drive remained at the crash site... bet he fled like the pile of manure he is.

1 hour ago, 300sd said:

So what kind of license do you need to drive a bus in Thailand? Same as a car with zero training? What about an air brake ticket? Well at least he didn't run. Life is cheap here.

Not that long ago there would have been an image of empty M150 bottles and perhaps a mickey of whiskey with the caption "and the driver fled the scene".

The driver probably nodded off, snapped to and over corrected on the steering. An old guy I knew did that, rolled the car, and killed his wife of 60 years. Thankfully this driver got off easy.

10 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

Everybody normal thinking human being knows that the time between 3 am and 5 am is the time that the most accidents happen

Can you back up that "statistic" with something empirical? I would very much doubt that it was an accurate statement.

9 hours ago, Patong2021 said:

Remember when they were going to ban the double decker buses?

New ones are banned, in order to phase them out it's not possible to register new double-deckers but existing ones are allowed to operate.

2 hours ago, 300sd said:

So what kind of license do you need to drive a bus in Thailand

Public transport licence.

2 hours ago, Sir Dude said:

The report doesn't even say if the drive remained at the crash site... bet he fled like the pile of manure he is.

That there is no report that he fled the scene - there certainly would have been if he'd legged it - it's fair to assume that he remained there and that he isn't the pile of shi t that you claim him to be.

A straight section of road near the town....driver lost control?? driver fell asleep!