Phuket student injured as tour bus hits motorbike in residential sidestreet

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Phuket student injured as tour bus hits motorbike in residential sidestreet

Eakkapop Thongtub

 

Police and rescue workers render assistance at the scene. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET: A 14-year-old student has escaped serious injury after the motorbike he was riding was struck by a tour bus in a small street in Chalong this morning.

 

Police and rescue workers were called to the scene, in Soi Yodsane 2, Chalong, at 9:25am.

 

Officers arrived to find a Bangkok-registered tour bus with Sri Nawanput Transport emblazoned on the side parked in the small street, with 14-year-old Tharakorn Sommathorn still under the bus just before the front right wheel.

 

Full story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-student-injured-as-tour-bus-hits-motorbike-in-residential-sidestreet-67289.php

 

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[LivinginKata]

14 year old on a racy looking m/bike - lunacy. Mind you those big coaches should not be using such small roads. 

 

Edit ... just read the Gazette's account and the driver ran away leaving a passenger to reverse the bus off the boy's leg.

Edited May 29, 2018 by LivinginKata

[a977]

The guts of this story is not the fact the large bus was on a narrow Soi, it is the fact that what was a 14 year old doing riding a motor bike No drivers licence probably no motor bike licence hence no insurance. What were the parents thinking and of course the old chestnut what were the bloody cops doing?  

[Damrongsak]

19 minutes ago, a977 said:

The guts of this story is not the fact the large bus was on a narrow Soi, it is the fact that what was a 14 year old doing riding a motor bike No drivers licence probably no motor bike licence hence no insurance. What were the parents thinking and of course the old chestnut what were the bloody cops doing?  

15 or so years ago, we'd send a couple 12-14  year old kids down a short soi on a mini-bike to buy cold beer at the corner store.  Several times an evening.  The bike was low and slow enough so that if they crashed and dropped the beer, not all the bottles would break.  A good time was had by all.

[chrisinth]

Lots of sympathy for the victim here I see.

 

Hope the driver of the bus got a nice pat on the back when he gave himself up after running away.

[steelepulse]

Is this the soi that goes up to Big Buddha?

[Old Croc]

Edit.

Just noticed it was Soi YodSane 2, not Soi YodSane 1 which goes through the village. My error.

Soi 2 has been widened to allow buses to go to the  gem tourist trap recently opened.

Edited May 30, 2018 by Old Croc