Video: Dramatic moment as pick-up overturns after oncoming car refuses to pull in

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Dash cam footage from a pick-up truck posted on Facebook showed the moment a driver faced a life or death decision as a similar oncoming vehicle refused to pull over while overtaking.

 

With trees on the left and the white pick-up blocking his path a collision was inevitable.

 

The two Toyota Vigos collided with the dash cam vehicle rolling and recording everything.

 

But incredibly Suphanburi native Somchai Pathan, 32, the driver, and his father who was a passenger lived to tell the tale.

 

In fact Somchai was only slightly hurt while his father was not injured at all.

 

The driver of the oncoming vehicle - Somrit Makhampom from Nakorn Pathom - was also unhurt. His vehicle was badly damaged on the driver's front side.

 

Nong Ya Sai police said that the accident happened on the U-Thong - Dan Chang Road in their jurisdiction on Tuesday at 1.30pm.

 

They warned the public about driving fast especially on two lane roads such as this.

 

The footage was posted by Somchai's elder brother "Ali Khan" who told Daily News that the family have a furniture business. His younger brother and father had been to buy bull and buffalo horns at a market for use as decorations.

 

The items they bought were badly damaged but the important thing was that his relatives had escaped unhurt, he said.

 

Police are investigating and using the dash cam footage.

 

Netizens commented in their thousands mostly and not surprisingly blaming the oncoming vehicle for the accident.

 

Source: Daily News

 

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I saw this sort of behaviour going on all the time when I lived in Thailand.

 

I was only forced off the road once-but once was enough.

Just another day in the Land of Stupid Drivers ! Disregard birth control Thailands approach to population control !

The one who caused this had to be drunk.  If he had just stayed on the middle line ...

 

Had exactly the same  thing happen myself  with the same result.

30 minutes ago, Damrongsak said:

The one who caused this had to be drunk.  If he had just stayed on the middle line ...

 

NO, they "EXPECT" you to get out of their way and if you don't  understand  this  you shouldn't drive here, in my case I refused to move over and in their  attempts to swerve  back in they flipped  their  pick up over, so justice was served."

Edited January 31, 20188 yr by gunderhill

1 hour ago, webfact said:

They warned the public about driving fast especially on two lane roads such as this

Totally missed  the point, I wouldn't take any advice from the Police here, surely  the point is don't overtake into oncoming traffic, not only that but when the morons do overtake they overtake like tortoises, just  like they pull out of U turns like tortoises.

That driver likely passed unsafely on purpose without regard to how their actions affect themselves (including their own passengers) or the next driver...that's what makes it so scary at times.  They are very selfish drivers on the roads (on average); a lot of it is due to nearly 1/3rd believing that whatever happens on the roads is just fate.

road bullies...

Probably overtaking while texting

that p/u actually veered over even more as he approached,making it impossble for the 3 vehicles to pass safely..he looks like he wanted the driver in the ditch...should be charged with attempted murder...

AGAIN how to climb to the #1 spot worldwide for road fatalities.

This would not have happened if the pick up driver flashed his lights,

oh how stupid of him,

 

remember the photo of the 2 buses doing this

15 minutes ago, leeneeds said:

This would not have happened if the pick up driver flashed his lights,

oh how stupid of him,

 

And i bet he doesn't have an expensive amulet neither. So he asked for it.

2 hours ago, gunderhill said:

NO, they "EXPECT" you to get out of their way and if you don't  understand  this  you shouldn't drive here, in my case I refused to move over and in their  attempts to swerve  back in they flipped  their  pick up over, so justice was served."

Yeah, kind of like my Thai boss at the Land Development Department 40 years ago.  He was a prick.  He seriously threatened to kill one of the regular workers over some imagined slight.  He screwed me over as far as renewing my Peace Corps volunteer stint, because I didn't kiss his arse. His brother or relative used to stay at the housing at the office, lounging around all day in a silk smoking jacket.  The boss was at our wedding, and wondered why we served Johnnie Walker Black and not Courvoisier. 

Good that he filmed it so the police can punish this idiot very hard...

"With trees on the left and the white pick-up blocking his path a collision was inevitable."   How about using the brake under his foot? Combine that with lower the speed. Combined with using your <deleted> head! Still probably a collision.. but slower... 

Jeez


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glad to see Thailand is off to a good start in 2018 to remain in the #1 spot for dangerous highways.

 

 

I think if the car (with the cam) had moved right instead of left there was room for him to go between the on-coming pickup and the slow car being overtaken.

WHY did the on-coming car need to pull so far out; he's over the line at the side of the road!! Just bad driving, no judgement; a reflection on the extremely poor standards here.

Even the car being overtaken could see what was happening and had pulled far over to his left to make as much room as possible, but the overtaking maniac was totally out of control and just kept moving further over.   Must have been drunk or texting I would think.... 

 

I've had a similar thing happen to me on a totally clear road... An oncoming driver was in my lane and wasn't even overtaking - fortunately there was enough run-off on my left to avoid a collision. 

Notice that the third vehicle which was being passed by the white pickup was alert to the situation and appeared to be already halfway off the road at the time of the collision. The driver and passenger in the rolled car were very lucky it wasn't a head-on.

 

My hypothesis is that the pickup was not under driver control and simply drifting down from the crown of the road.

Edited February 1, 20188 yr by MaxYakov

9 hours ago, webfact said:

Somrit Makhampom from Nakorn Pathom

What will happen to Somrit? Nothing because no one dead at the scene.

8 hours ago, Damrongsak said:

The one who caused this had to be drunk.  If he had just stayed on the middle line ...

 

or totally consumed in a phone call, or trying to find a number, etc.

what is the godalmighty crash 15 seconds into the video?

 

Looking at the side if the road they are lucky they didn't plow into a tree.

 

8 hours ago, Damrongsak said:

The one who caused this had to be drunk.  If he had just stayed on the middle line ...

 

either drunk or on facebook or both, I can think of no other rational reason for this, the vehicle he was overtaking was also off the road so there was plenty of room

 

I honestly believe that Mobile Phone use is the number one cause of accidents in this country, drunk driving, careless driving and speeding come after in any order you like or a combination of all of them, the ultimate blame is lack of the police's ability or willingness to enforce traffic law

The driver of the oncoming vehicle - Somrit Makhampom from Nakorn Pathom - was also unhurt. His vehicle was badly damaged on the driver's front side. He is also applying for a name change to Sometwit Makhampon

5 hours ago, 1happykamper said:

"With trees on the left and the white pick-up blocking his path a collision was inevitable."   How about using the brake under his foot? Combine that with lower the speed. Combined with using your f'ing head! Still probably a collision.. but slower... 

actually you are wrong, what he did was exactly the correct thing to do - he tried to keep maximum control of his vehicle and steer out of the way, when you apply the brake you are no longer in full control and this accident could have been a lot worse maybe even a head on event, remember he was not expecting the overtaking vehicle to continue coming towards him  - he got the best possible outcome he could have hoped for.....no one died.

37 minutes ago, Borzandy said:

What will happen to Somrit? Nothing because no one dead at the scene.

100,000baht fine and a year in jail

 

 

oh no wait - that's for smoking on an open air outdoors beach, how stupid of me.