On 6/2/2018 at 5:49 PM, josephbloggs said:

 

No they don't.  People do not get run over on the hard shoulder in the UK.  Firstly, if you break down you pull to the hard shoulder and get out of your car and off the hard shoulder.  Secondly, trucks and cars never ever drive on the hard shoulder to undertake or to use it as a shortcut if there is traffic.

 

It is tragic but there is no education about the dangers here.  Remember the policeman getting killed by the actress when he pulled over for a nap on the motorway?  

Sadly they still have the same number of collisions.... 

however you do make an interesting point about road design and safety........Thailand has viryually no motorways and therefore very little hard shoulder.

Edited June 4, 20188 yr by kwilco

Every comment so far has been mentioned thousands of times.Why do people continue to flog a dead horse. You know by now that it aint gunna make an ounce of diff. Get on with life, smell the roses, or, you know , go back etc.

On 6/1/2018 at 9:01 PM, ratcatcher said:

I am sorry for the  dead peoples' families, but am curious as to why the scene is in  broad daylight at 7pm on Friday June 1st.  Isn't it nearly dark at that time down in Chonburi area?

On March 21st 18 people died in a bus crash on Highway 304 north of Wang Nam Khiao. I drove to Pattaya on March 31st passing the scene of the accident. The wrecked bus was still at the side of the highway, it had not yet been recovered. It seems that recovering vehicles after a serious crash is not a priority unless the vehicles are actually on the road. There may also be an element of superstition involved in night time recovery or indeed any recovery where there were multiple fatalities. 

On 6/4/2018 at 5:41 PM, keithpa said:

Every comment so far has been mentioned thousands of times.Why do people continue to flog a dead horse. You know by now that it aint gunna make an ounce of diff. Get on with life, smell the roses, or, you know , go back etc.

Agreed, but it's so difficult to 'smell the roses' when you're sometimes surrounded by excrement. 

9 minutes ago, lvr181 said:

Agreed, but it's so difficult to 'smell the roses' when you're sometimes surrounded by excrement. 

Thats who I have left LOS.

This is so incredibly sad.  More so because we have pictures of the deceased.  Young men, smiling men, probably honest and good men.. Some with families to support. Others hoping to become family men.  Now all gone through no fault of their own.  Just sitting on the roadside or in the broken down vehicle waiting on another vehicle to transport them to their homes. Mothers and fathers losing their sons. Wives and children losing their husband and father and means of financial support. And so it goes on.

 

I know this happens on a daily basis but the pictures of these smiling and happy guys now lost forever really sheets home the sadness of these accidents.  Greatly saddens the heart.

 

 

9 hours ago, johnnycthedog said:

This is so incredibly sad.  More so because we have pictures of the deceased.  Young men, smiling men, probably honest and good men.. Some with families to support. Others hoping to become family men.  Now all gone through no fault of their own.  Just sitting on the roadside or in the broken down vehicle waiting on another vehicle to transport them to their homes. Mothers and fathers losing their sons. Wives and children losing their husband and father and means of financial support. And so it goes on.

 

I know this happens on a daily basis but the pictures of these smiling and happy guys now lost forever really sheets home the sadness of these accidents.  Greatly saddens the heart.

 

 

Wow sounds like a sermon in the church I use to go to. Are you a priest by any chance?

14 hours ago, johnnycthedog said:

This is so incredibly sad.  More so because we have pictures of the deceased.  Young men, smiling men, probably honest and good men.. Some with families to support. Others hoping to become family men.  Now all gone through no fault of their own.  Just sitting on the roadside or in the broken down vehicle waiting on another vehicle to transport them to their homes. Mothers and fathers losing their sons. Wives and children losing their husband and father and means of financial support. And so it goes on.

 

I know this happens on a daily basis but the pictures of these smiling and happy guys now lost forever really sheets home the sadness of these accidents.  Greatly saddens the heart.

 

 

Sadly, there will be little or no learning from this.