School kids left to die in baking vehicles - when are lessons going to be learned?

 

 

Thai media Daily News posed a simple and salient question following yet another death after a teacher left a child all day in a vehicle in the heat of Khon Kaen.

 

When are the lessons of the past going to be learned?

 

Nong Yaem, 5, from Phu Pha Man district is just the latest unnecessary victim of forgetfulness and negligence, they said. Teacher Phijit Suttana, 32, left her in her pick-up all day thinking she had gone to class.

 

Daily News said it was just the latest death as they cited many from recent years.

 

In May 2012 "Por" aged 4 was forgotten by a bus driver at a Kalasin school.

 

In April 2013 "Euy", 3, died two weeks after being left all day in a school van driven by a teacher in Samut Prakarn.

 

In May 2016 "Ink" aged 3 died at a kindergarten also in Samut Prakarn province.

 

While in 2017 "Kaka", 6, died after being found in a coma. She was left all day by a school bus driver in Bang Sai, Ayuthaya.

 

Daily News quoted experts as saying that the notion that children die from suffocation is wrong. They die from being in unbearable heat.

 

The temperature in a car or van becomes hot within about five minutes. Within ten minutes it is unbearable.

 

And within half an hour death can occur.

 

Publishing pictures of the latest tragic funeral, Daily News merely posed the question about what can be learned - they offered no answers in their story.

Source: Daily News

 

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It is a fact of life here, which many of us can sadly verify: Thais tend NOT to learn from experience.

22 minutes ago, webfact said:

Daily News merely posed the question about what can be learned - they offered no answers in their story.

Don't leave children in cars all day is the obvious answer.

when are they going to make the drivers walk through the back to make sure the kids are all out, blaming everyone else id bullsh*t, the driver picks them up, they are the ones responsible to ensure they are all out of the vans but again we see the buck passing hands because the drivers are too lazy to actually physically check the backs of the vans, its pathetic, they need to be charged with manslaughter if they fail to ensure the kids are all out

 

Edited June 21, 20188 yr by seajae

Kids should be taught by the age of 5 how to get out of a locked vehicle and/or how to flash the lights or sound the horn or (for slightly older kids) where to find & how to safely use a drivers crash-hammer. 

 

This is right up there with 'teaching kids to swim'.

Edited June 21, 20188 yr by evadgib

Perhaps one relatively simple option, have the central locking mechanism removed from all school transport?

1 hour ago, JAG said:

Perhaps one relatively simple option, have the central locking mechanism removed from all school transport?

Are you saying that if the vehicle is locked, you cannot unlock it from the inside?

 

What i find incredible is the girl was in the passenger seat,did the teacher have no periphial vision.

44 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

Are you saying that if the vehicle is locked, you cannot unlock it from the inside?

 

No, I don't know about that -I but if central locking is removed then the driver will have to walk around it to lock it, so much less chance of "forgetting" a child.

4 hours ago, webfact said:

School kids left to die in baking vehicles - when are lessons going to be learned?

I would say never is a fair answer. Who is going to tech what has to be learned? The techers that forget children?

Learning by self-study? Don´t make me laugh. People here kan look at somebody turning the head of a screw to the right 50 times. The first thing they do is turn the head to the left, just to see what happens.

Yet another sad report.

 

Typical, greedy, carefree, negative mind-set attitude destroys yet another young life.

 

Life is cheap in the land of smiles and daggers...

The answer is never. It continues with a wai, rinse and repeat. 

Maybe the children should run the education systems because the adults are damn useless at it

2 hours ago, upu2 said:

Maybe the children should run the education systems because the adults are damn useless at it

Mentally, the adults are children.

7 hours ago, Eligius said:

It is a fact of life here, which many of us can sadly verify: Thais tend NOT to learn from experience.

 

I think the road death statistics bear that out. Everyone knows how high they are but it doesn't stop them driving as if they have a death wish. It comes down to the fact that no Thai accepts being told what to do or how to behave.

The tragic and sad death of this little lass is only the latest case of this kind to hit the headlines.

Lessons are never learned in this Country, and the only way possible to safeguard the innocent lives of these children is for the Schools / Bus Companies to employ the correct caliber of professional person to  both drive these vans safely, and to oversee the welfare and  well being of the children that they are responsible for.

There is no place for a Mobile Phone Zombie or Airhead where childrens safety is at stake.

 

47 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said:

 

I think the road death statistics bear that out. Everyone knows how high they are but it doesn't stop them driving as if they have a death wish. It comes down to the fact that no Thai accepts being told what to do or how to behave.

Absolutely right. The ignorant are often the most stubborn.

 

I would only qualify the above with the sentence: '... except when they are confronted by hi-so Thais, and then they are happy to bow and scrape and grovel as is tacitly demanded of them!'

6 hours ago, JAG said:

No, I don't know about that -I but if central locking is removed then the driver will have to walk around it to lock it, so much less chance of "forgetting" a child.

All the way around to the other side to lock it bit of a long tiresome walk

Might as well talk to a brick wall. You could tell a Thai a hundred times and still, it would not sink in.

2 hours ago, salavan said:

All the way around to the other side to lock it bit of a long tiresome walk

might be a hammock strung up somewhere to rest

13 hours ago, Eligius said:

It is a fact of life here, which many of us can sadly verify: Thais tend NOT to learn from experience.

Stop the BS about Thailand and only in Thailand. I get so bored about this mentality.

 

This happened a few weeks ago in the US: https://www.wwaytv3.com/2018/04/04/infant-dies-after-being-left-in-the-car-father-forgot-to-drop-child-off-at-daycare/

 

Didn't see you write about that that Americans never learn their lessons!

 

Just take a look on google and find out this happens many times every year all over the world.

14 hours ago, webfact said:

When are the lessons of the past going to be learned?

TiT. They aren't.

Human error is a fact of life, that is why things of real importance are checked and double-checked. 

 

If schoolteachers take a roll call (attendance record) each morning, and make some enquiries if a child is missing, these "accidents" can not happen.

 

IMHO - these incidents should not be blamed solely on one person.

18 hours ago, marko kok prong said:

What i find incredible is the girl was in the passenger seat,did the teacher have no periphial vision.

Yes that is absolutely amazing to me. The amount of self-centeredness extends to their actual, physical vision. In Canada that teacher could not be prosecuted in a normal court, they would qualify for the mentally retarded court. As there is something clearly wrong with her brain.

 

I am typing right now and my baby is sleeping to the left of me. I notice any movement and can see him with my peripheral vision. Maybe Thais do not possess this amazing peripheral vision. Maybe some national testing on Thais needs to be done. Could explain all the road deaths, why they don't appear to see you in a line and cut ahead of you, etc....

7 hours ago, chickenslegs said:

Human error is a fact of life, that is why things of real importance are checked and double-checked. 

 

If schoolteachers take a roll call (attendance record) each morning, and make some enquiries if a child is missing, these "accidents" can not happen.

 

IMHO - these incidents should not be blamed solely on one person.

Are you a member of this teacher's family? Trying to get the teacher off the hook? I know Thais never take responsibility for their errors, but come on. Let's blame roll call instead? You have been living here too long! Go take a holiday and replenish your common sense!

 

(A proper roll call and follow up could have saved the child. But the blame entirely lies within the idiot teacher who created the situation first and ended up killing the child.)

I've seen no mention anywhere of whether the teacher will be charged with anything. Or will a wai and a week in the temple suffice?

Edited June 22, 20188 yr by madmitch

18 hours ago, jesimps said:

Mentally, the adults are children.

Agreed but actual children have the possibility of advancing, the childrens mentality of the adults can only regress