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Video: Coke truck piles into police checkpoint as driver claims "brake failure"

 

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Thai TV showed a dash cam video of a Coke truck slamming into a police checkpoint in Chumporn in Thailand's south yesterday.
 
The truck was undertaking a line of vehicles stopped at the checkpoint.
 
It slammed into a police car that was propelled into a van. One policeman was hurt as others dived for cover at 11am yesterday.
 
Driver Suchart Chumprang said in dialect Thai: "The brakes just didn't work".
 
But the presenters - and the skeptical police - pointed to the fact that the brake lights did not come on and there were no skid marks on the road surface.
 
They suggested the brakes were only applied after the collision. There were marks on the road at that point, they said.
 
Investigations continue. 
 
 
Source: Thai TV
 
 
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10 minutes ago, dunroaming said:

You could clearly see that the truck was travelling at speed and when the driver braked which was the same time the brake lights came on.

Thank you, a sensible response at last, 

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There was no brake failure because that truck stopped pretty quick after hitting the barricade and the police vehicle. If it was a brake failure then a vehicle that size and weight would have kept moving long after it hit the obstacle irrespective of whether the brake lights came on or not, as DipStick said the brake lights are connected to the foot pedal and not the actual brake system but what DipStick failed to say was that to get the brake lights to come on you must put your foot on the brake pedal. In the video when the truck passes the car with the camera there are no brake lights showing on the truck which means no foot on the brake pedal. No brake failure just driver failure.

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Because the brake lights work doesn't mean the brakes work!

right. Me thinks working or not working aside, the driver hit the brakes far too late, judging by the lights.
the fact that the presumably heavy truck got quickly to a halt, after hitting the barrier suggests to me that there was quite some brake function...

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2 hours ago, StefanBBK said:


right. Me thinks working or not working aside, the driver hit the brakes far too late, judging by the lights.
the fact that the presumably heavy truck got quickly to a halt, after hitting the barrier suggests to me that there was quite some brake function...

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HaHa - More Brake function than Brain function!!

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8 hours ago, Prairieboy said:

Because the brake lights work doesn't mean the brakes work!

 

The brake lights only came on a split second before impact. 

This would indicate that the Brake Pedal was depressed only a split second before impact and not earlier - thus indicating there was no attempt to brake until a split second before impact. 

 

Had there been brake failure the brake lights would be on, but the truck would continue to careen through the barrier. 

 

The Brake Failure excuse, as someone wrote earlier is the 'dog ate my howework' excuse for those juvenile face-saving minds who can't accept a responsibility for their own failures in causing an accident. 

 

This was clearly not brake failure and a couple of explanations as to how this could be brake failure are fundamentally flawed as the video clearly shows 'when' the brake pedal was depressed (i.e. a split second before impact and not earlier).

 

Perhaps Dipstick & Prairieboy, you could explain how the brake lights came on just a split second before the impact and not much earlier.

 

 

 

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