webfact Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 Video: Carnage as tractor destroyed and sandwiched between two trucks Picture: Daily News Video footage from Chaiyaphum showed a tractor traveling in the middle of the road that was slammed into by a truck from the rear. The tractor is then sandwiched between an oncoming truck. A motorcycle - seemingly ridden by a foreigner - then crashes as debris flies. Daily News reported that the accident happened on the Chaiyaphun to Bua Yai road on Thursday morning. It appeared that the tractor might be about to turn into the road leading to Ban Nong Ya Rangka. Two people were injured and taken to hospital. They were the tractor driver Phinai Lonleua, 31 and the rider of the Yamaha Fino named as twenty year old Tina Lustef (name transliterated from Thai). Police are investigating. Both trucks were reported to have stopped at the scene. Source: Daily News -- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2018-05-04 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just1Voice Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 Truck driver couldn't see the damn bright orange tractor in front of him? Oh, stupid question. Can't see what's in front of you while playing on your phone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geriatrickid Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 And trucker keeps on going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mok199 Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 more thai '' Brain Failure''.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammieuk1 Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 The trucker saw red and had to be first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanuckThai Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 No concept at all. No tractor running lights to drive on the road (let alone the middle of a narrow road), no "slow moving vehicle" safety signage...nothing. The innocent girl on the motorcycle is lucky to be able walk away... Sad to see (but always interesting fodder, can't help but to stare at car accidents) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wozza Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 Mr Lindsay Fox wont be pleased seeing this.He invests huge amounts of money in safety for his trucks in Australia ,but this is Thailand after all . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simoh1490 Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 6 minutes ago, CanuckThai said: No tractor running lights to drive on the road (let alone the middle of a narrow road), no "slow moving vehicle" safety signage...nothing. I'm truly shocked, really! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmaxdan Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 On Thailand's rural roads you see a lot of tractors and other slow moving farm vehicles, They have to use the roads in order to move between the fields. I would imagine that none of them are actually road legal or have working lights or indicators but that's just the way it is. Even without signaling it is obvious to anyone with more than one brain cell that the tractor is tuning right. His road positioning is actually quite good. The truck driver clearly doesn't feel the need to concentrate one hundred percent on the job in hand, trusting in his amulets no doubt. He urgently needs a new vocation once he has paid copious amounts of compensation to the injured tractor driver....we can but hope anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Grumpy Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 This is what happens when you take 800 years of buffalo and carts in fields, then replace them with roads and big trucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratcatcher Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 17 minutes ago, Happy Grumpy said: This is what happens when you take 800 years of buffalo and carts in fields, then replace them with roads and big trucks. Another derisive comment aimed at Thais. In this video, it is obvious the tractor, who has as much right to use the road as anyone else, is attempting to turn right. He was in the middle of the road for that reason. Chaiyapum is a rural province with large farm areas and hundreds of tractors. The fault here lies with the driver of the Linfox truck who was not paying attention to the road ahead. I hope the tractor operator recovers and also the foreign motorcyclist who fortunately, for her, was wearing a crash helmet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesofa Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 26 minutes ago, Dmaxdan said: On Thailand's rural roads you see a lot of tractors and other slow moving farm vehicles, They have to use the roads in order to move between the fields. I would imagine that none of them are actually road legal or have working lights or indicators but that's just the way it is. Even without signaling it is obvious to anyone with more than one brain cell that the tractor is tuning right. His road positioning is actually quite good. Learning to drive in the UK, I was told for safety to always regard a tractor as a stationary vehicle, due to it being so slow moving. There again, for Thailand I'd probably need to delete the two words 'learning' and 'safety'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overherebc Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 8 minutes ago, ratcatcher said: Another derisive comment aimed at Thais. In this video, it is obvious the tractor, who has as much right to use the road as anyone else, is attempting to turn right. He was in the middle of the road for that reason. Chaiyapum is a rural province with large farm areas and hundreds of tractors. The fault here lies with the driver of the Linfox truck who was not paying attention to the road ahead. I hope the tractor operator recovers and also the foreign motorcyclist who fortunately, for her, was wearing a crash helmet. To be honest the m/c rider did the usual thing the riders with no real training do. She turned the bike and grabbed a big handful of front brake. 100% sure you're coming off if you do that especially with the steep rake and quick turning that rake produces. Lucky she wasn't high sided and really only just fell over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornishcarlos Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 1 hour ago, CanuckThai said: No tractor running lights to drive on the road (let alone the middle of a narrow road), no "slow moving vehicle" safety signage...nothing. Sorry but are you saying that the tractor was at fault here ?? It's just a classic case of Thai spacial awareness, the truck driver wouldn't have been looking more than 20 feet in front of his truck... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trainman34014 Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 The Truck driver was driving 'without due care and attention' and that is what he should be charged with. See it every day; they just keep their foot down and keep going no matter what is happening ahead, no thought for others lives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kannot Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 50 minutes ago, overherebc said: To be honest the m/c rider did the usual thing the riders with no real training do. She turned the bike and grabbed a big handful of front brake. 100% sure you're coming off if you do that especially with the steep rake and quick turning that rake produces. Lucky she wasn't high sided and really only just fell over. Yeah I looked at that and thought just the same..............front brake madness and looking at it she had plenty of room to change position and brake later, either way i treat all road users as total morons here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masuk Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 I sometimes wonder about the eye tests taken before a licence is issued. There have been numerous accidents reported recently of people not seeing flashing red lights and then driving into a boom at a train crossing, or a tractor not being seen and thoroughly squashed. Then you've got the drivers who cannot see red lights and drive through them. Seems to indicate some sort of eye problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essox essox Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 2 hours ago, CanuckThai said: No concept at all. No tractor running lights to drive on the road (let alone the middle of a narrow road), no "slow moving vehicle" safety signage...nothing. The innocent girl on the motorcycle is lucky to be able walk away... Sad to see (but always interesting fodder, can't help but to stare at car accidents) BET it had no number plate also....can not make one out in the photos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overherebc Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 16 minutes ago, kannot said: Yeah I looked at that and thought just the same..............front brake madness and looking at it she had plenty of room to change position and brake later, either way i treat all road users as total morons here. We used to spend a bit extra on a valve system that could split brake pressure front/back and was adjustable, from memory 50/50 to 75/25 ish. Biggest problem was riding your mates bike that didn't have it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midas Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 2 hours ago, wozza said: Mr Lindsay Fox wont be pleased seeing this.He invests huge amounts of money in safety for his trucks in Australia ,but this is Thailand after all . yep. Worth $3.3 billion and yet downplays his considerable wealth describing himself as "just a truckie " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overherebc Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 6 minutes ago, masuk said: I sometimes wonder about the eye tests taken before a licence is issued. There have been numerous accidents reported recently of people not seeing flashing red lights and then driving into a boom at a train crossing, or a tractor not being seen and thoroughly squashed. Then you've got the drivers who cannot see red lights and drive through them. Seems to indicate some sort of eye problem. I'll agree with that because all the hand phones here aren't transparent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nahkit Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 3 hours ago, geriatrickid said: And trucker keeps on going. " Both trucks were reported to have stopped at the scene. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanleycoin Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 Normal average day on the roads of Thailand only different is, we have social media now, so we get to see it, or the aftermath of it all. Bet they did the same with buffaloes and Karts years ago. Same, Same but Same. Next, stupid Drive / Rider clip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tilacme Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 1 hour ago, kannot said: Yeah I looked at that and thought just the same..............front brake madness and looking at it she had plenty of room to change position and brake later, either way i treat all road users as total morons here. I like the way she gets up still clutching her handbag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Weird Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 4 hours ago, geriatrickid said: And trucker keeps on going. No, he stopped, as the report points out very clearly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Weird Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 29 minutes ago, Tilacme said: I like the way she gets up still clutching her handbag. Why does she deserve your ridicule for that? Perhaps it was around her shoulders on it's strap? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TTTTT Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 1 hour ago, overherebc said: We used to spend a bit extra on a valve system that could split brake pressure front/back and was adjustable, from memory 50/50 to 75/25 ish. no no no.You need to be able to operate the brakes independently.Its called basic training Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratcatcher Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 2 hours ago, essox essox said: BET it had no number plate also....can not make one out in the photos. Many farm vehicles in Thailand do not have plates, unless of course you are referring to the plate on the motorcycle? Would it have made any difference if the tractor had a license plate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overherebc Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 35 minutes ago, TTTTT said: no no no.You need to be able to operate the brakes independently.Its called basic training Strangely Honda and other large bike manufacturing companies would disagree with you. Started with large capacity bikes in the early 2000's and it's now being developed for smaller engined machines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FitnessHealthTravel Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 why are we surprised as this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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