Family almost wiped out as two pick-ups collide in Krabi

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

A husband taking his heavily pregnant wife to hospital were both killed along with their 10 year old son when two pick-ups collided in Krabi last night.

 

The driver of the other vehicle thrown from the cab by the impact was also dead at the scene.

 

A seven year old boy is expected to survive.

 

The accident happened on the Petchkasem Road in Neua Klong district.

 

Thanaphon Leelawuthaporn, 37, was taking his 8 month pregnant wife Malisa, 40, to the hospital. They had their two sons aged seven and ten in the back.

 

Their Isuzu went through the central reservation and collided head on with a Ford driven by a man called Pornthip Jitraksorn, 44.

 

The dead ten year old was Wisarat but his brother Chanathan, 7, was not seriously injured.

 

Thai Rath said that the family was on their way from Klong Tom to a hospital when the accident occurred.

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

 

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Just goes on relentlessly....

RIP those lost.......but how many were wearing Seatbelts ?

 

Last week i was in Rayong and stood by a busy road for about 25 minutes waiting for someone and counted the people i could see in cars/trucks etc NOT wearing belts.    I gave up at 400, which was almost three quarters of the vehicles i had seen.   I didn't see a single child restrained by belts; there were very young kids and even Babies in the front and in one case a small girl sitting on her Fathers lap while he was driving.     It was 'Rush Hour' in the late afternoon and the amount of Biker's and passenger's (as many as three at a time ) i saw without helmets i didn't even try to count but it was hundreds for sure.

 

Still....Mai Pen Rai.....they are the happiest Idiots on The Planet !!

3 minutes ago, trainman34014 said:

RIP those lost.......but how many were wearing Seatbelts ?

 

Last week i was in Rayong and stood by a busy road for about 25 minutes waiting for someone and counted the people i could see in cars/trucks etc NOT wearing belts.    I gave up at 400, which was almost three quarters of the vehicles i had seen.   I didn't see a single child restrained by belts; there were very young kids and even Babies in the front and in one case a small girl sitting on her Fathers lap while he was driving.     It was 'Rush Hour' in the late afternoon and the amount of Biker's and passenger's (as many as three at a time ) i saw without helmets i didn't even try to count but it was hundreds for sure.

 

Still....Mai Pen Rai.....they are the happiest Idiots on The Planet !!

I’ve long thought that the ‘seat-belt’ issue (lack of people wearing them) was done to lack of education and innocent ignorance...

 

But, being the #1 in deaths on the road everyone must know someone who’s died in a RTA. 

 

I’m inclined to think that not wishing to protect against this is simply stupid, much like generations past in Western Countries only they lacked the same amount of evidence, research, technology, online reporting etc.... 

Raise the fines, I bet everyone will start enforcing the laws. Install more speed cameras since police can't do their job properly.  I'm sure 3000-5000 fine for traffic violations will make a difference.

1 hour ago, richard_smith237 said:

I’m inclined to think that not wishing to protect against this is simply stupid, much like generations past in Western Countries only they lacked the same amount of evidence, research, technology, online reporting etc.... 

 

Not only in the past. Smokers could be placed in the same group. They know the risks but ignore them, and certainly not through ignorance.

terrible.....but as any other at any day in Thailand

Tragic! My condolences. But I have to agree with others here, Thailand staying at No.1.

1 hour ago, mike324 said:

Raise the fines, I bet everyone will start enforcing the laws. Install more speed cameras since police can't do their job properly.  I'm sure 3000-5000 fine for traffic violations will make a difference.

Fine in principle but it is Thailand and most cases are settled by money in envelopes.  Raising the fines wouldn't do anything except get more people doing runners.  But again I do totally agree with the principle.

2 hours ago, mike324 said:

Raise the fines, I bet everyone will start enforcing the laws. Install more speed cameras since police can't do their job properly.  I'm sure 3000-5000 fine for traffic violations will make a difference.

Had a chat with a cop up north and surgested fines for no helmets should be doubled,his comment was thais can not afford that i said wear a helment not have to worry,he didnt get it kept saying thais can not afford it,,

 

Again education could make a big difference. Show them some graphic photos of accident scenes where kids were riding in back of pick-up trucks or when placed in front of driver on motorcycle. Ignorance is bliss. 

3 hours ago, trainman34014 said:

RIP those lost.......but how many were wearing Seatbelts ?

 

Last week i was in Rayong and stood by a busy road for about 25 minutes waiting for someone and counted the people i could see in cars/trucks etc NOT wearing belts.    I gave up at 400, which was almost three quarters of the vehicles i had seen.   I didn't see a single child restrained by belts; there were very young kids and even Babies in the front and in one case a small girl sitting on her Fathers lap while he was driving.     It was 'Rush Hour' in the late afternoon and the amount of Biker's and passenger's (as many as three at a time ) i saw without helmets i didn't even try to count but it was hundreds for sure.

 

Still....Mai Pen Rai.....they are the happiest Idiots on The Planet !!

I think Thais are in a rush to see God/Big Buddha.. So much for this crackdown by the govt, on not obeying basic road safety where police here are too busy sucking on tea money rather than get off their ass and get on the road and actually do what they are supposed to do!.

 

Finally RIP my dead friends and loved ones. How many other lives were affected by this single tragedy?

Very sad....but how can vehicles just collide front to front...somebody was driving on the wrong side of the road ?

1 hour ago, observer90210 said:

Very sad....but how can vehicles just collide front to front...somebody was driving on the wrong side of the road ?

 

If you would have read the OP, you would have saw this:

 

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Their Isuzu went through the central reservation and collided head on with a Ford driven by a man called Pornthip Jitraksorn, 44.

 

P.S. Please use the default forum font size when posting. 

 

Edit:  A grammar police troll post commenting on moderation has been removed. 

24 minutes ago, fullcave said:

Again education could make a big difference. Show them some graphic photos of accident scenes where kids were riding in back of pick-up trucks or when placed in front of driver on motorcycle. Ignorance is bliss. 

I don't think they don't know. They simply don't care, don't think it will happen to them and if does then it's just fate. Absolves them of all responsibility.

53 minutes ago, grego49 said:

Had a chat with a cop up north and surgested fines for no helmets should be doubled,his comment was thais can not afford that i said wear a helment not have to worry,he didnt get it kept saying thais can not afford it,,

 

It's utterly impossible to reason with a Thai. Don't even try. Their brain is wired differently to ours.

3 hours ago, metisdead said:

 

If you would have read the OP, you would have saw this:

 

 

P.S. Please use the default forum font size when posting. 

 

Edit:  A grammar police troll post commenting on moderation has been removed. 

ok sorry for the font size...as my eyes are getting sleazy with age, I am always tempted to use a slightly bigger one..

 

To say thais cannot afford helmet is  a ridiculous statement, if they can afford a 40,000thb bike surely they can  afford a 600thb helmet, just another lazy policeman not wanting to enforce the law

17 hours ago, fullcave said:

Again education could make a big difference. Show them some graphic photos of accident scenes where kids were riding in back of pick-up trucks or when placed in front of driver on motorcycle. Ignorance is bliss. 

they already do that in bangkok on video billboards with dead people blurred out, it doesn't work.

When I'm driving with Thai people I point blank refuse to move the vehicle until everyone has got their belts on, the time it takes is unreal with god knows what excuses, but now my missus simply says to them " put it on or he will not move" so they do but what a fiasco.

On 21.2.2018 at 5:02 PM, grego49 said:

Had a chat with a cop up north and surgested fines for no helmets should be doubled,his comment was thais can not afford that i said wear a helment not have to worry,he didnt get it kept saying thais can not afford it,,

 

The cop was right. You don't get the concept. If fines are too high, everybody will wear a helmet. If everybody wears helmets the cops will lose their best business. Simple, isn't it ?

Holy hell that Ranger is completely flattened. You would think that a modern truck like that would offer at least some protection in a roll over accident.

Just Sadness.. RIP