Elderly Rider Fined After Driving E-Trike Through Traffic

1 hour ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Here in Pattaya the elderly expats riding these stupid contraptions are everywhere.

I see these guys riding at speed down soi Buakhou, then up the footpath into a 7-Eleven, paying for their bottles of Chang beer and cigarettes, then off up the street to annoy the road users.

We had one idiot not too long ago, trying to outrun SUV's crossing the train tracks. These guys have no fear, still think they are adolescent.

Who had right of way?

5 hours ago, simon43 said:

As others have said, this incident highlights the fact that Thailand makes almost no allowances for the elderly or disabled. What is that old man meant to do? - Sit at home all day and never go out....?

Join AN and post all day like some members appear to do.

3 minutes ago, NoDisplayName said:

Who had right of way?

The guy with mental illness always has right of way when I'm on the road.

24 minutes ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

These disability scooters are used by many foreigners in Pattaya, not because they are disabled, it's because they are cheap Charlie's. These disability scooters are Chinese made, dirt cheap, and unsafe.

If you ever went to the cities , towns and villages in Thailand.

you would see that thousands and thousands of Thais ride them

every day. it's not a foreigner thing.

Your just again, showing your bias towards expats.

1 minute ago, rocketboy2 said:

If you ever went to the cities , towns and villages in Thailand.

you would see that thousands and thousands of Thais ride them

every day. it's not a foreigner thing.

Your just again, showing your bias towards expats.

I have travelled all around Thailand, worked offshore Songkhla for a few years.

I know Thailand and the locals.

I'm talking about Pattaya

8 minutes ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

I have travelled all around Thailand, worked offshore Songkhla for a few years.

I know Thailand and the locals.

I'm talking about Pattaya

Nah.

Your just having a dig at the expat comunity.

It's your go to now days.

9 hours ago, Georgealbert said:

A 75-year-old man has been fined by police after being filmed riding an electric three-wheeled trike

I presume this was a Thai man and not a foreign ex-pat old fart on his way home from a bar??

8 hours ago, Jim Blue said:

Pity he's not accompanied by a young

attractive "nurse " to spice up "

the story !

**** me, mate. Benny Hill was taken off the air 30 plus years ago.

When I saw this story about the guy in the wheelchair navigating through heavy traffic, my mind went back a few decades and he reminded me of the cartoon character called Mr Magoo

5 hours ago, Halnodeya said:

Yet in Pattaya I regularly see guys in normal wheelchairs shuffling along in the middle of the road at night, with no lights and never get pulled up. Totally dangerous, but like the comments above because the footpaths are not wheelchair friendly they don't have a choice. But they should at least have some easily visible lights attached.

Those electric trikes are just as illegal when they used on the pavements!

3 hours ago, banyanman said:

Putting aside the fact that driving a mobility scooter in Bangkok is a crazy thing to do, the question that remains is: where else are you going to drive a mobility scooter

As it is not legal for use on the road and using them on payments is illegal perhaps they shouldn't be used anywhere except on private property? They are electric trikes, they're not "mobility scooters".

2 hours ago, NoDisplayName said:

Who had right of way?

Certainly not the e-trike user who was on the road illegally.

1 hour ago, Burma Bill said:

I presume this was a Thai man and not a foreign ex-pat old fart on his way home from a bar??

"...identified only as Mr A, aged 75, Thai national".

Can't imagine why you made that presumption.

Simon 43 [won't let me quote]

As others have said, this incident highlights the fact that Thailand makes almost no allowances for the elderly or disabled. What is that old man meant to do? - Sit at home all day and never go out....?

Unfortunately, this is the reality for many old folks. Perhaps their children are ashamed of their frailties or it feels to hard to take them out. Just waiting for them to die.

We live in an attached house mooban. To our right, there lived an old man and a hired maid to look after him. He suffered dementia and didn't remember anybody. Not sure if he had other inconveniences as well. We never saw him until the ambulance came to take him to the wat--15 years.

We have newer neighbours on the left. Their two parents live in an upstairs room...permanently. They can't manage the stairs. The daughter is always complaining. They never see the great outdoors. Ever.

Luckily, our parents are frail at 87 but can still get around, eat out, go to malls, take a ride just to enjoy being out.

Some of these younger ones will wonder when it happens to them. So sad.

I'm glad this old dude was having some fun on Lat Phrao. He just needed a couple of bright flashers.

How about a dedicated bike lane with concrete barriers? It's all about people who can afford to buy cars, can't even have walkable sidewalks.

8 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

He's been getting lessons from some of the elderly foreigners in Pattaya.

Your ability to shoehorn an 'anti-foreigner' jibe out of any story is quite astonishing !!!

5 minutes ago, unblocktheplanet said:

Simon 43 [won't let me quote]

As others have said, this incident highlights the fact that Thailand makes almost no allowances for the elderly or disabled. What is that old man meant to do? - Sit at home all day and never go out....?

He was breaking the law .

He got arrested for doing something wrong, he didn't get arrested for being old .

Rules apply to everyone there are no exemptions because of age

2 hours ago, NoDisplayName said:

Who had right of way?

This was debated death in that discussion a couple of years ago (same video SF showed)

The traffic crossing the railway tracks has right of way.

The traffic running parallel to the railway line is required to give way.

That's not opinion, that's how the junction is signed and marked.

Those junctions are designed that way for a reason. If vehicles crossing the tracks had to wait, queues could back up onto the railway itself, which is precisely the situation the layout is intended to prevent.

SF's position at the time was essentially that "any local knows" the road running parallel to the tracks takes priority, regardless of what the road markings, signage and traffic rules actually say.

As for this thread, it was inevitable. SF has a serious chip on his shoulder - a long-standing habit of turning almost any discussion into a critique of foreigners in Thailand. The only topic that seems to excite him more is having a go at foreigners with mobility issues using mobility trikes - a second chip that balances the first.

A thread involving a mobility scooter where he might be able to shoe-horn in some anti-foreigner rhetoric is pretty much catnip to him. His comments are predictable, before he even started typing.

7 hours ago, golfho said:

Maybe drive on the side of the road as opposed to the middle. How many wheelchairs driving down the street in the UK?

7 hours ago, golfho said:

Maybe drive on the side of the road as opposed to the middle. How many wheelchairs driving down the street in the UK?

Probably none, because no-one seems to give a f cuk about helping the disabled with dedicated paths etc.

6 hours ago, thailand49 said:

So what is your reason for thumbs down 1appycamper?

I guess when Thais riding their e bikes, Thai using their side carts, it's OK, I give this guy credit he isn't sitting at 75, a burden got enough balls to do what he got to do instead of wasting his day away sitting around scratching his nut on the sofa watching TV,

Bravo

Did he lose one? :)

2 hours ago, rocketboy2 said:

3 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

These disability scooters are used by many foreigners in Pattaya, not because they are disabled, it's because they are cheap Charlie's. These disability scooters are Chinese made, dirt cheap, and unsafe.

If you ever went to the cities , towns and villages in Thailand.

you would see that thousands and thousands of Thais ride them

every day. it's not a foreigner thing.

Your just again, showing your bias towards expats.

100%....

That said - in this case, on that specific part of the road - Motorcycles are not permitted at all (I know this is not a motorcycle and no need to get into semantics - cars and larger only are permitted).

I was fined (100 baht) a few years back for 'missing' the frontage road 'split-off' and found myself on the central section of Vibhavadi-Rangsit road - at the next 'exit' section from the central lanes, a policeman was waiting - I imagine quite a number of motorcyclists get caught out this way.

In this case its far more probably that the 'trike rider' wasn't charged because he was riding a 'mobility scooter' he was charged becasuse he wasn't in a car.

Had he been riding on the frontage road, I believe he would have been left to continue on his way.

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On another note - that numberplate (if real) is worth some serious wedge.

38 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

4 hours ago, banyanman said:

Putting aside the fact that driving a mobility scooter in Bangkok is a crazy thing to do, the question that remains is: where else are you going to drive a mobility scooter

As it is not legal for use on the road and using them on payments is illegal perhaps they shouldn't be used anywhere except on private property? They are electric trikes, they're not "mobility scooters".

IF that numberplate is genuine - then the vehicle is registered and legal to ride on the road.

That said - very valid point below... But perhaps the old fella is a bit eccentric.

6 hours ago, chickenslegs said:

Not a real registration plate.

If he could afford this one, he could afford a chauffeur driven Benz.

3 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

The guy with mental illness always has right of way when I'm on the road.

Surely you give way to others, even if only sometimes ???? 🤣

45 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

IF that numberplate is genuine - then the vehicle is registered and legal to ride on the road

As those e-trikes are not legal to be used on the road, or the pavements come to that, the registration cannot be genuine...

"Police also used the case to remind the public that electric scooters, certain types of electric bicycles, electric three-wheeled bicycles, trikes and electric suitcases are not permitted on public roads".

12 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Summoning a disabled rider to attend the police station would seem counter productive. Would he be expected to use the same Ha Yaek Lat Phrao junction? I doubt there are clear pavements available to him. Perhaps he needs to get a samlor?

Is he going to cook?

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2 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Those electric trikes are just as illegal when they used on the pavements!

Who cares?

2 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

As it is not legal for use on the road and using them on payments is illegal perhaps they shouldn't be used anywhere except on private property? They are electric trikes, they're not "mobility scooters".

Nobody around here outside of the city cares, cops don’t care. No helmet, no tax sticker, twelve year old riding a scooter, the cops don’t give a hoot unless there’s an accident.

4 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

The guy with mental illness always has right of way when I'm on the road.

There seems to be a lot of that circulating around here.

9 hours ago, golfho said:

Maybe drive on the side of the road as opposed to the middle. How many wheelchairs driving down the street in the UK?

More likely to get hit on the side by lane huggers and motorcycles.

44 minutes ago, Jim Mac said:

Is he going to cook?

Ha! They only use samlors for that in Phuket when Thais are around to take video.

2 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Certainly not the e-trike user who was on the road illegally.

I'm not sure that's how the traffic code is applied.

Imagine the chaos at unmarked intersections with drivers stepping out of their vehicles to check license validity and insurance and registration to decide who has right of way!