Motorcycle street racing: What happens when things go wrong - four dead

 

Pictures (6): Sanook

 

Horrific pictures showed the aftermath to a street racing event on the highway in Buriram.

 

Five motorcycles slammed into a red pick up that was braking and turning into the PTT gas station in Ban Yang district around 11.30 pm on Saturday night.

 

Rescue medics performed CPR at the scene that was utter carnage with bikes almost unrecognizable, said Sanook.

 

Three riders were pronounced dead at Buriram hospital by 1 am and a fourth succumbed later Sunday morning.

 

Three were also injured. They were all aged between 15 and 17.

 

None of the racers were wearing helmets.

 

Witnesses confirmed they were racing.

 

Source: Sanook

 

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Horrific is truly the correct word.

 

I often hear (but don't see) racers on my island late at night on the weekend, and occasionally see the end results of racing as I go for a morning cycle; it is a terribly sad situation.

 

Kids will be kids, but one certainly has to wonder where the hell the parents are; well-brought up kids don't do idiotic things like this.

 

R.I.P.

 

3 minutes ago, Samui Bodoh said:

but one certainly has to wonder where the hell the parents are

Safe guess would be glued to the telly or on their cell phones.

I look forward to the day that this news will be replaced with:

 

1) Each time a motorcycle rider was issued with large infringement notice, loss of licence, confiscation and destruction of the speeding motorcyclists motorcycle.

 

2) Repeat offenders jailed for a minimum of 12 months, with 1) above applied again

 

3) Sentences tripled to 2) if caught again and 1) applied again

 

Last but not least, the above should also apply to motorists, i.e. once you are over a certain speed limit, your toast !!!

 

Yeh yeh, I know keep dreaming.........

Edited May 7, 20188 yr by 4MyEgo

Just now, 4MyEgo said:

I look forward to the day that this news will be replaced with:

 

1) Each time a motorcycle rider was issued with large infringement notice, loss of licence, confiscation and destruction of the speeding motorcyclists motorcycle.

 

2) Repeat offenders jailed for a minimum of 12 months, with 1) above applied again

 

3) Sentences tripled to 2) if caught again and 1) applied again

Meh, instead of another government money grab; parents doing their job may be a better solution?

Sorry but there is zero sympathy from me. Night on night idiots like these endanger other people just getting on with their journey.

No helmets also, pure idiocy but quite fitting as this is probably exactly the way these sorts envision as a cool way to exit the earth

10 minutes ago, Samui Bodoh said:

Horrific is truly the correct word.

 

I often hear (but don't see) racers on my island late at night on the weekend, and occasionally see the end results of racing as I go for a morning cycle; it is a terribly sad situation.

 

Kids will be kids, but one certainly has to wonder where the hell the parents are; well-brought up kids don't do idiotic things like this.

 

R.I.P.

 

Even if it takes to beating them with a piece of bamboo, across the back, legs, arms as my Mrs did to the twins, when they were 12.

 

Being caught as pillion passengers on their cousins motorbike (twice), one would have thought the first canning would have been enough, obviously the 2nd one did it, that and been grounded since then, they are now 14.

 

Lots of opinions bagging her from the Thai community in the beginning (village mentality), now, its oh, how can I do the same for my kids.....lol

 

Better my kids alive than dead my Mrs says, can't disagree with her, that and they have been told that dad will take to them next !

 

Amazing what a good old caning does to them, I remember those days  

Unfortunately while testosterone flows throw the veins of some young men you will not see the end of foolish escapades like this.

Only very recently a youth jumped from the roof of a train into the river in perth .

You get youths climbing up very high structures to do infeasible balancing acts that give me extreme vertigo just watching.

As the wit said..youth is wasted on the young

30 minutes ago, Samui Bodoh said:

Horrific is truly the correct word.

 

I often hear (but don't see) racers on my island late at night on the weekend, and occasionally see the end results of racing as I go for a morning cycle; it is a terribly sad situation.

 

Kids will be kids, but one certainly has to wonder where the hell the parents are; well-brought up kids don't do idiotic things like this.

 

R.I.P.

 

I was well brought up but my UK parents never knew what I was up to at that age..

What they might have done?

RIP

Stupiness paid by their own lives. As long as no innocent lives are involved, they deserved it.

Looks like a bomb went off. 

Darwin's law, simple as that .

What´s sad is: in ten years they would not have done it.

Sometimes, i tell myself, that i´m lucky to have survived my youth.

Edited May 7, 20188 yr by starfish

RIP to the red truck, assaulted by idiots. 

1 minute ago, RichardColeman said:

RIP to the red truck, assaulted by idiots. 

There's hope yet, slap a new door and box on it and good to go for another 10 years. After all he was only hit by motorbikes and warm bodies.

no one has come up with the theory , was the van turning in front of the riders, as is so often the case here before condemning the kids, 

21 minutes ago, mercman24 said:

no one has come up with the theory , was the van turning in front of the riders, as is so often the case here before condemning the kids, 

Condemning kids ? Everyone knows, that the sole purpose of a van is to turn in front of others. Even kids should know that (Parents, school ?)

And they were racing, for f. sake.

In school they should teach more reality, instead of theory.

 

 

Man, not even helmets for racing, f.f.sake. Hopeless.

 

Edited May 7, 20188 yr by starfish

I feel sorry for the pick up driver, he has to live with this for the rest if his life when it appears he was at no fault...

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1 hour ago, 4MyEgo said:

I look forward to the day that this news will be replaced with:

 

1) Each time a motorcycle rider was issued with large infringement notice, loss of licence, confiscation and destruction of the speeding motorcyclists motorcycle.

 

2) Repeat offenders jailed for a minimum of 12 months, with 1) above applied again

 

3) Sentences tripled to 2) if caught again and 1) applied again

 

Last but not least, the above should also apply to motorists, i.e. once you are over a certain speed limit, your toast !!!

 

Yeh yeh, I know keep dreaming.........

Im ok if they do the same for car drivers. 

Up where I lived they used to race across the bridge and then encounter a slight dip in the road.Someone was killed on a monthly basis but they never learned.

The real sadness in all this is that no one learns from the grief and tragedy coming from these dreadful road racing events.

Not the kids themselves or the parents or the police or the government. After the dead are put to rest all is forgotten until the next time. 

Sensible suggestions flow from members and Big Joke is doing his best but that's where it ends. Time for the PM to step up and lay down the law; which he is good at. 

 

Edited May 7, 20188 yr by Cadbury

30 minutes ago, Cadbury said:

The real sadness in all this is that no one learns from the grief and tragedy coming from these dreadful road racing events.

Not the kids themselves or the parents or the police or the government. After the dead are put to rest all is forgotten until the next time. 

Sensible suggestions flow from members and Big Joke is doing his best but that's where it ends. Time for the PM to step up and lay down the law; which he is good at. 

 

Folk street race in farangland even with all the laws in place...

44 minutes ago, Cadbury said:

The real sadness in all this is that no one learns from the grief and tragedy coming from these dreadful road racing events.

Not the kids themselves or the parents or the police or the government. After the dead are put to rest all is forgotten until the next time. 

Sensible suggestions flow from members and Big Joke is doing his best but that's where it ends. Time for the PM to step up and lay down the law; which he is good at. 

 

I'd suggest that the reality is that no-one is interested in learning from this, apart from paying lip-service.

The difference in attitude is that if the problem is ignored it will go away - which of course it won't

 

2 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

Even if it takes to beating them with a piece of bamboo, across the back, legs, arms as my Mrs did to the twins, when they were 12.

 

Being caught as pillion passengers on their cousins motorbike (twice), one would have thought the first canning would have been enough, obviously the 2nd one did it, that and been grounded since then, they are now 14.

 

Lots of opinions bagging her from the Thai community in the beginning (village mentality), now, its oh, how can I do the same for my kids.....lol

 

Better my kids alive than dead my Mrs says, can't disagree with her, that and they have been told that dad will take to them next !

 

Amazing what a good old caning does to them, I remember those days  

 

That's scary.

18 minutes ago, transam said:

Folk street race in farangland even with all the laws in place...

Thank for that pearl of farangland wisdom. An invaluable contribution to a serious discussion.  

 

2 hours ago, hyku1147 said:

Youngsters deprived of life.

 

Youngsters gave up their lives, not deprived...

At least they didn't kill any innocent by standers this time !!

 

RIP all the same..

28 minutes ago, transam said:

Folk street race in farangland even with all the laws in place...

If you know, what you´re talking about, it´s allright. At least you know. Could be worse.

2 minutes ago, starfish said:

If you know, what you´re talking about, it´s allright. At least you know. Could be worse.

I was young once, and I reckon many older guys here were too and street raced...Young folk can be rascals, we get through it or not...The young of LOS are no different to farangland for their buzz...

14 minutes ago, transam said:

I was young once, and I reckon many older guys here were too and street raced...Young folk can be rascals, we get through it or not...The young of LOS are no different to farangland for their buzz...

True. We have to get them through to their twenties, then they will see for themselves.

Again, parents, school, where the parents say: the school has to do it, and the school says: the parents have to do it.

 

 

Edited May 7, 20188 yr by starfish

we get many of these idiots going up the main street in our town wichianburi,unlike most Thai towns it is not a dual lane road either side of a ditch or barrier,just single lane each way. Many small soi's run off it yet these gits with their earsplitting exhuast's  drive up and down at the max speed they can get,mostly with no helmets. I saw a guy hit a pickup outside the busy main market,the busiest spot in town ,catapulted over the bonnet, he must have been doing at least 80-90kmh,how he actually survived i have no idea.

  i have told my wife when my stepson is 15 next year i will buy him a motorbike on the condition that he passes his test,always wears a helmet,and no souped up exhaust.