Dramatic video shows Pattaya tour bus write off 18 motorcycles

 

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The moment a Pattaya tour bus smashes into a row of parked motorcycles and cars has been caught on camera.

 

The crash took place on Thursday at Pratumnak Soi 4 outside Co & Caffe.

 

CCTV footage of the incident, which was shared on Facebook shows, the bus ploughing into the parked vehicles.

 

According to a post on Facebook a total of 18 motorcycles were written off and 2 cars and a bicycle were also damaged.

 

“It’s hell in Pattaya with hundreds and hundreds of poorly maintained polluting buses driven by morons pouring in every day”, read the caption which accompanied the video.

 

Incredibly, no injuries have been reported.

 

It’s not clear why the accident occurred, if the bus lost control, the brakes failed or for some other reason.

 

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Wow! He did a good job of collecting everything, all while being on completely the wrong side of the road. Cant wait to hear the excuse.

"It's hell in Pattaya with hundereds and hundereds of poorly maintained polluting buses driven by morons pouring in everyday"

 

Absolutely spot on whoever said that

Listen up! It´s lucky business time. Time to find shop number 18 in that street and open a new outlet for motorbikes.

19 minutes ago, webfact said:

 

It’s not clear why the accident occurred, if the bus lost control, the brakes failed or for some other reason.

Well, one thing for certain it couldn't possibly be driver error.  

Brake failure for sure.........Next!

Maybe, with some more practice, this guy could take out some jetskis and make himself useful to society.

ya'all listening yet,as I have been ranting about this for 5 years now...they have thrown this city pattaya ''under the bus''..in the beginning the bus traffic was limited to beach rd ,now all the small sois and narrow roads are used by buses to park and sleep and avoid the very traffic they themselves have created ,as they pull down lower hanging trees and power lines to these drivers any road is fairgame and any speed and or rpm is ok...screaming around belching smoke..the tour bus and its drivers ,in my opinion is the #1 problem now facing urban pattaya..these filthy buses should be parked outside the city and never allowed into city limits...most other civilized countrys are trying to reduce traffic chaos, while Thailand has no respect for anyone or anything,until pattaya comes to a standstill and chokes on its own greed..do not blame this on the Chinese,they just ride around in comfort while we on the ground suffer....and I suggest to anyone who thinks this is an over reaction..come down to pattaya at 8 am any given day.....it is simply insanity and out of control...

Heard from someone there that it is the driver you see running after it - dropping at hotel up the road and claims he had chocked wheels.

1 hour ago, webfact said:

driven by morons

has thailand evolved sufficiently as to be ready for moving vehicles ?

50 minutes ago, mok199 said:

most other civilized countrys are trying to reduce traffic chaos, while Thailand has no respect for anyone or anything,until pattaya comes to a standstill and chokes on its own greed

 

Such selective perception conveniently ignoring that Thailand built the BTS and MRT. Just finished The Tunnel, which has greatly helped the traffic on Suk around Klang w/ more to come. Such attempts to reduce traffic chaos are greeted w/ sneers on TVF, however.

 

Bangkok as it should be, civilized, no traffic chaos, room for families to stroll contentedly in the evenings. Expats enjoyed the servility appropriate to their high stations as the Thais were in such poverty. It was wonderful then, you may remember.

 

 

But then it choked on its own greed! OH NO! And that lead to this uncivilized disaster! THAILAND. And then the hellish brain-eating Whither Thailand and Whither Pattaya space monkeys began to plague expats.

 

 

Pattaya's progress towards a similar disaster must be stopped NOW.

 

1 hour ago, champken said:

"It's hell in Pattaya with hundereds and hundereds of poorly maintained polluting buses driven by morons pouring in everyday"

 

Absolutely spot on whoever said that

I did ?

 

[Edit: by the way I'm pretty sure I spelt 'hundreds' correctly in the original Don't mind not being cited but at least quote me correctly ?]

Glad you captured the moment - scary for anyone having a quiet coffee, and fortunate no one was parking up to join you. These buses have reached epidemic levels here - but it will be money that wins the day !!!

1 hour ago, Orac said:

Heard from someone there that it is the driver you see running after it - dropping at hotel up the road and claims he had chocked wheels.

Yes that's what he claimed but forensics have yet to find anything bigger than a twig roadside up the hill. Really.

Looks like normal Pattaya parking to me.

1 hour ago, mok199 said:

ya'all listening yet,as I have been ranting about this for 5 years now...they have thrown this city pattaya ''under the bus''..in the beginning the bus traffic was limited to beach rd ,now all the small sois and narrow roads are used by buses to park and sleep and avoid the very traffic they themselves have created ,as they pull down lower hanging trees and power lines to these drivers any road is fairgame and any speed and or rpm is ok...screaming around belching smoke..the tour bus and its drivers ,in my opinion is the #1 problem now facing urban pattaya..these filthy buses should be parked outside the city and never allowed into city limits...most other civilized countrys are trying to reduce traffic chaos, while Thailand has no respect for anyone or anything,until pattaya comes to a standstill and chokes on its own greed..do not blame this on the Chinese,they just ride around in comfort while we on the ground suffer....and I suggest to anyone who thinks this is an over reaction..come down to pattaya at 8 am any given day.....it is simply insanity and out of control...

the problem in Thailand is city planning and regulations regarding the building of roads and infrastructure going back decades, Pattaya is a fine example and so is Bangkok

 

while in the west equally going back decades roads and infrastructure especially in cities had to meet certain standards and planning - width of roads - footpaths etc etc, go back 80 years and in the west we were meeting these standards

 

here in Thailand they just built stuff with no forward planning or infrastructure considerations and the result is that in all the cities the roads are too narrow and there are no footpaths, it is just a mess, they could have looked to the west to see how it was done properly - but no

 

Now the only way to fix it is to start demolishing buildings and reclaiming space so they can build the roads and city streets properly

 

The busses are just too big for the infrastructure and it is not just in Pattaya, Bangkok is just as bad if not worse 

Must be prone to accidents that soi!!
When I lived there a guy in a cement lorry nipped into 7/11 and it rolled back down the hill wiping out some bikes and smashing into my mates apartments, I'd only just gone out in my truck as it would of been in the firing line!

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1 hour ago, wedders said:

I did ?

 

[Edit: by the way I'm pretty sure I spelt 'hundreds' correctly in the original Don't mind not being cited but at least quote me correctly ?]

Pretty hard to argue with the idea that there are morons pouring into pattaya each day. But reading the Phuket forums makes me think Pattaya still lags Phuket when it comes to bus accidents. No Chinese tourists were harmed in creating this thread.

 

Where's the video? All I'm seeing in the OP is a screenshot. And no bus driver.

 

 

17 minutes ago, jerry921 said:

Pretty hard to argue with the idea that there are morons pouring into pattaya each day. But reading the Phuket forums makes me think Pattaya still lags Phuket when it comes to bus accidents. No Chinese tourists were harmed in creating this thread.

 

Where's the video? All I'm seeing in the OP is a screenshot. And no bus driver.

 

Use a different browser if you are not seeing the video link sometime Fire Fox Quantum does not pick up or decode videos that are posted on here

9 minutes ago, Rimmer said:

Use a different browser if you are not seeing the video link sometime Fire Fox Quantum does not pick up or decode videos that are posted on here

Thanks. I saw it with Opera. But Opera ... well, never mind, getting off topic. Thanks. In future I'll know to switch over when I see a reference to a video and not the video.

Isn't it time for everyone in Pattaya, locals and expats (not to mention the tourists) to go back to the old version of transport? I refer to the elephant, horse and maybe even buffalo.... it would be safer (providing the animals were fed on time) and surely it'd be much healthier and quieter.....

1 hour ago, smedly said:

the problem in Thailand is city planning and regulations regarding the building of roads and infrastructure going back decades, Pattaya is a fine example and so is Bangkok

 

while in the west equally going back decades roads and infrastructure especially in cities had to meet certain standards and planning - width of roads - footpaths etc etc, go back 80 years and in the west we were meeting these standards

 

here in Thailand they just built stuff with no forward planning or infrastructure considerations and the result is that in all the cities the roads are too narrow and there are no footpaths, it is just a mess, they could have looked to the west to see how it was done properly - but no

 

Now the only way to fix it is to start demolishing buildings and reclaiming space so they can build the roads and city streets properly

 

The busses are just too big for the infrastructure and it is not just in Pattaya, Bangkok is just as bad if not worse 

 

 

 

Starting over would entail one of the bigestest ventures ever  imaginable.

 

 

 

4 hours ago, webfact said:

It’s hell in Pattaya with hundreds and hundreds of poorly maintained polluting buses driven by morons pouring in every day”,

But still nothing will change same same just another day 

I wonder, is there actually anything "good" to say about Pattaya? Who's first?

39 minutes ago, GaryAdriaenssens said:

Isn't it time for everyone in Pattaya, locals and expats (not to mention the tourists) to go back to the old version of transport? I refer to the elephant, horse and maybe even buffalo.... it would be safer (providing the animals were fed on time) and surely it'd be much healthier and quieter.....

The brakes fail on elephants too.

I think the bikes were parked in the wrong place.

That's one way of creating a parking space if there is not one available!

2 hours ago, smedly said:

the problem in Thailand is city planning and regulations regarding the building of roads and infrastructure going back decades, Pattaya is a fine example and so is Bangkok

 

Which is only typical in Asia. You ever traveled around? Bangkok itself doesn't make the top 10. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/lists/most-overcrowded-cities-in-the-world/

 

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While in the west equally going back decades roads and infrastructure especially in cities had to meet certain standards and planning - width of roads - footpaths etc etc, go back 80 years and in the west we were meeting these standards

 

It's shocking that India is so horrible, then, given the Brits. And Hong Kong! Huh?

 

Short memory. Seen away from the barstool, the histories and situations of the two regions of the world have been quite different; ignorantly attempting to apply the UK standard reflects the usual provincialism.

 

For older cities in developed countries – London, Paris or New York – urbanization took place gradually over a century. They had time to adjust. In contrast, in developing Asian, intense urbanization is taking place within a few short decades. Unlike the Western cities that urbanized earlier, developing Asian cities simply do not have the administrative, management, institutional and financial capacities to manage urbanization and resulting socio-economic upheaval within such short periods.

     --https://thediplomat.com/2015/09/urbanization-and-migration-in-developing-asia/

 

WinnieTheKhwai, who has more sense than most here, is one of the few who by time of the Promenade had it right and even half-predicted The Tunnel, such a rich source of sneers & doomsayin':

 

I think it dawned on them [City Hall] pretty late that Pattaya was going to be a BIG city. One of the biggest in the country, after Bangkok. . . . Currently Pattaya is probably up there in the top 3 of biggest cities outside of Bangkok. (Subject to what anyone would want to define as being 'Pattaya' . . .) [speaking of the successful tunnels in Chiang Mai] That needs to happen in Pattaya too; all major intersections on Sukhumvit need tunnels and/or flyovers.

WinnieTheKhwai, on 19 Apr 2013 - 06:21

 

 

What's to save. A cheap way to demolish and start again but needs a neutron bomb approach first to get rid of the corruption tree first!

Those bikes were obviously in his parking spot.