Video: Iron girders propelled like javelins into car in front

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

A driver was lucky to escape death or serious injury yesterday after two iron girders came loose on a pick-up and flew into a car in front.

 

Narongsak, 21, driving the pick-up said he had to brake suddenly at the three way intersection in Bang Len, Nakorn Pathom.

 

Two of the six meter long girders being carried in a roof section came loose and went into the Ford stopped at the lights driven by 38 year old Ek Reuanbantherng.

 

Ek said he was very lucky he wasn't killed as the girders pierced his rear window and exited through the roof near his head.

 

He was on the way from Rangsit to his factory in Kanchanaburi, he said.

 

Police have charged Narongsak with negligence.

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

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Dangerous? Aye! But calling them "girders" is a bit much methinks.

No matter where ive been here i don't see these things tied down very well and certainly not laid flat like these appear to be

"Police have charged Narongsak with negligence "

 

And herein lies the root of the problem. It's a potential culpable homicide. If you give the driver a slap on the wrist, and maybe the bill to fix the other car's window, nobody will learn.

 

Once I was driving my scooter, I was passed by a 10 wheeler truck carrying long iron beams, he swerved onto my lane to let a faster car pass, and lost all the beams. I barely managed to avert them. The driver stopped, came out smiling and started to put them back on the truck without a worry and without any safety restraint.

Sweet Jesus. Pure luck. Thank God my wife got the red car's tag numbers for the lottery purchase! 

The bigger metal shops usually put a lot of effort into tying lengths of metal down whenever I have picked up a load. Local shop or self loaded stuff is a different issue though. Amazingly few people know how to secure a load here. I have had to reconfigure a few.

 

PS, girders are main support sections of buildings and such. The objects in the photo are simply lengths of tubing.

10 minutes ago, CelticBhoy said:

Dangerous? Aye! But calling them "girders" is a bit much methinks.

Heh heh heh this Thread will be genesis for today's 'Post of the day' 

They came loose or they weren't tied down in the first place? 

A 21 year old pickup driver doesn't strike me as being the kind of person who would go to the trouble of securing anything on his pickup bar the speakers. 

 

In other news, 4170 sold out for 16 May lottery.

Well, at least his brakes were working.

So, tying a couple of red panties at both ends of things sticking out of trucks doesn't prevent this from happening?

too many times I see thais driving along with crap stacked up or on racks and none of it is tied down, they have no safety precautions at all. On one trip to Bangkok I saw a motor bike rider stretched out on the road(almost ran over him due to no lighting) with the bike a bit further along, he had been cleaned up by a truck with steel bars sticking out from the sides over a metre, they had moved during transit as nothing was tied down, same with the trucks moving containers, they dont lock them down, means extra work/time to do so, easier to let them fall off and kill people

He better buy a lottery ticket today, he will never be this lucky again!  As for the idiot, needs to be hung! he will probably never learn. 

Yet again a brain dead driver responsible for an accident which luckily did not result in serious injury/ death.

Insecure load moving like that suggests that the pickup driver was traveling too fast and not paying attention, probably yakking on his phone. 

Police have charged the driver with negligence ( what a joke), he will p[ay his 500 baht fine then off to do exactly the same thing again.

Edited May 1, 20188 yr by colinneil

Sometimes tied down with an old piece of cord, and a piece of wood twisted to tighten.

Never drive close to trucks carrying excavators, back-hoes or other  machinery....chains and chain dogs are almost never used here...steel tracks on steel truck beds!

1 hour ago, canuckamuck said:

PS, girders are main support sections of buildings and such. The objects in the photo are simply lengths of tubing.

They're lengths of RHS (Rectangular Hollow Section) terms used within the metalworking industry.

There's also CHS (Circular Hollow Section) and SHS (Square Hollow Section)

 

2 hours ago, CelticBhoy said:

Dangerous? Aye! But calling them "girders" is a bit much methinks.

Yes but maybe the author of the report drinks ....iRN-BRU..... The same as you.

16 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

They're lengths of RHS (Rectangular Hollow Section) terms used within the metalworking industry.

There's also CHS (Circular Hollow Section) and SHS (Square Hollow Section)

 

Girders "propelled" like "javelins". At least I learned another English word for spear. Silly headline.

Steel bars with propeller... silly.

Edited May 1, 20188 yr by maximillian

the driver is also the man who makes the roof with these metal -????., imagine 

how his/your roof will look ?

LOL...a reporter groping for a bit of sensationalism, as everyone has pointed out that they are RHS and not girders I will throw in "iron"....LOL...are you sure? They don't use much iron nowadays...LOL...you gotta admire the journalistic accuracy

Driver of red car probably echoing some posters here "Thank God I don't live in a nanny state. That would be far worse".

Wonderful Thai intelligence on show again.

Dammmmmn, how did that ever happen? 

 

 

 

Oh. 

What if?...  

The black sonteaw had 'not' encountered the sudden stop there, but further along where he hypothetically stops at a red light?  - and easy decapitates multiple motorcyclists in the crosstraffic in the intersection! 

Shocking story brakes working.

5 hours ago, canuckamuck said:

 Amazingly few people know how to secure a load here.

 

Don't know, don't care, and don't want to know

3 hours ago, maximillian said:

Girders "propelled" like "javelins". At least I learned another English word for spear. Silly headline.

Steel bars with propeller... silly.

pro·pel

prəˈpel/

verb

verb: propel; 3rd person present: propels; past tense: propelled; past participle: propelled; gerund or present participle: propelling

1. drive, push, or cause to move in a particular direction, typically forward.

   "the boat is propelled by using a very long paddle"

   synonyms:

   move, power, push, drive More "a boat propelled by oars" throw, thrust, toss, fling, hurl, launch, pitch, project, send, shoot "he propelled the ball into the air"

   • spur or drive into a particular situation.

     "fear propelled her out of her stillness"

     synonyms:

     spur, drive, prompt, precipitate, catapult, motivate, force, impel

5 hours ago, webfact said:

A driver was lucky to escape death

So, police is unable to make money.....

5 hours ago, canuckamuck said:

The bigger metal shops usually put a lot of effort into tying lengths of metal down whenever I have picked up a load. Local shop or self loaded stuff is a different issue though. Amazingly few people know how to secure a load here. I have had to reconfigure a few.

 

PS, girders are main support sections of buildings and such. The objects in the photo are simply lengths of tubing.

They are RHS (rectangular hollow section)

5 hours ago, canuckamuck said:

The bigger metal shops usually put a lot of effort into tying lengths of metal down whenever I have picked up a load. Local shop or self loaded stuff is a different issue though. Amazingly few people know how to secure a load here. I have had to reconfigure a few.

 

PS, girders are main support sections of buildings and such. The objects in the photo are simply lengths of tubing.

A bit of poetic licence needed for Thai journalists.

As for securing a load correctly, I find this amazing.    I'd be even more amazed if the amateur loaders ensured that a visible flag/cloth was attached to any bits hanging out the rear.