Two small children crushed as concrete posts fall on them in Chaiyaphum

[webfact]

Two small children crushed as concrete posts fall on them in Chaiyaphum

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Two young children were crushed as a pile of concrete posts slipped and fell as they were sitting on them waiting to go home from school yesterday.

 

A six year old girl's legs were both seriously injured - "Naen"'s left leg was almost severed, said Daily News.

 

A four year old boy suffered a severe back injury.

 

Naen's class teacher at Tetsaban 1 Withayanaree school next door said that children liked to run and play in the area after school as they waited for their parents to come and pick them up.

 

Teachers were alerted to the screams of the little ones. Foundation rescue medics arrived and took them to hospital.

 

The concrete posts are in an area of a telecoms company next to the school in downtown Chaiyaphum in Thailand's north east.

 

Source: Daily News

 

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[ben2talk]

Nasty -  Thais pay a very high price for their freedom and lack of  management skills . 

[Get Real]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

The concrete posts are in an area of a telecoms company next to the school in downtown Chaiyaphum in Thailand's north east.

Although, the parents should teach their children to not play in dangerous areas and in places belonging to other companies. 
However, the companies should also be responsible to fence in their areas and not only think about the profit margin.

I sincerely hope the children eventually will be fine, even if it sound too bad for that.

[timendres]

It would be very nice if the company came in and offered to pay for the best possible health care for these kids.

[RichardColeman]

18 minutes ago, timendres said:

It would be very nice if the company came in and offered to pay for the best possible health care for these kids.

I'm sure there will be a host of 'reasons it's not our fault' before that happens. But I'd like to think what you say would be true.

[4MyEgo]

Always going to happen when kids are unsupervised, tragically at times too, hope the kid gets to keep the leg and they both have a speedy and full recovery.

 

People in our village have made remarks that we are too strict on our 4 kids, i.e. not allowing them out to play with other kids on the road, the local school grounds, etc etc

 

I drop and pick them up everyday from the 25 kilometre drive (semi-private Catholic school) and the same people tell us its cheaper to have them put in a school minivan that travels well over a 100km's an hour overtaking me on the way and way back most days with more kids (sardines) than you could fit in a can.

 

I pick the kids up 30 minutes after school finishes, allowing the teenage boys to play basketball, the girls to sit and play with friends, they have their boundaries that they are not allowed to cross, and have to be at the pick up point at the same time day in day out.

 

Weekdays they wash up after dinner, weekends they have their clothes to wash, floors to sweep, floors to mop, change their bed sheets and tidy up their rooms and clean their bathrooms, then lend mum and dad a general hand, we go out as a family unit and the kids get plenty of free time after home work to either watch TV, play on the computer, tablet, iPad, iPhone.

 

Kids in our opinion do not belong on the streets with gangs, walking or riding pushbikes, I encounter them every morning in the shade of the road as the sun is directly in my eyes. 

 

Kids need to be learn discipline and be taught how to look after their selves. 

 

I won't judge the parents, because parents never like to be judged, especially when there isn't a manuel provided on how to raise kids, but I will say the school and the company might have something to answer too if the dividing fence wasn't up to scratch and hopefully both, if that's the case, pay for these kids hospital and follow up costs, and I am not talking the local hospital, private all the way with the best practitioners available.