Driver recovered from wreck as van goes off-road on Patong Hill

By Eakkapop Thongtub

 

Police believe the driver fell asleep at the wheel. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET: A passenger van went off-road while descending Patong Hill this morning (Sept 11), with the van coming to a halt just metres before a 15-metre plunge into a rubber plantation.

 

Kathu Police Deputy Chief Investigator Lt Col Amponwat Seangreung was called to the scene, at the curve just uphill from the Patong City sign on the east side of the hill, at 4:45am.

 

Rescue workers recovered the driver, who police have yet to name, unconscious from the vehicle and sped him to hospital.

Read more at https://www.thephuketnews.com/driver-recovered-from-wreck-as-van-goes-off-road-on-patong-hill-68585.php#vOoodfPQjVjpiIf2.99 

 

-- © Copyright Phuket News 2018-09-11

New day, same morons. 

When will someone in authority do something about the continuing carnage on Patong Hill?

Seriously I came to Phuket decades ago and was talking to a Government Official who was off to South Korea to speak with Construction companies on a fully paid junket to investigate the possibilities of a tunnel to Patong. Years ago and they are still talking and people are still dying...

I've lived in Seattle, Tacoma, and San Francisco where they have some real world class steep hills, and I never have heard of carnage like this.  Goes to show that many, many Thais really don't have the skill sets necessary to navigate the roads in a modern vehicle. 

3 minutes ago, connda said:

I've lived in Seattle, Tacoma, and San Francisco where they have some real world class steep hills, and I never have heard of carnage like this.  Goes to show that many, many Thais really don't have the skill sets necessary to navigate the roads in a modern vehicle. 

In any vehicle mate,,

He's come flying over the crest of the hill (outbound) by the Chinese temple then probably going too fast to make the off camber left that drops down past the Patong City feature (just further down on the left in pic)

 

Also many times the crest of the hill has diesel spills on it from vehicles which have overfilled on way out of patong, they tend to spill here as they come over and start to turn down towards Kathu- I learnt this last year when I nearly came off my Forza in the same spot, luckily I was not going too fast and was able to keep it on two wheels (lost the front end at first) three riders behind me all came off, was early morning and lucky not too busy for them.

3 hours ago, Deli said:

New day, same morons. 

And what are you basing that on ?

8 hours ago, Deli said:

New day, same morons. 

Well they should have made him happy as they "sped" him to hospital

4 hours ago, Patanawet said:

And what are you basing that on ?

It's historically based, nothing "Historic" about it though

6 hours ago, Dap said:

When will someone in authority do something about the continuing carnage on Patong Hill?

When and if you ever end up with somebody in authority who actually cares

14 hours ago, Patanawet said:

And what are you basing that on ?

On the fact that accidents on this stretch happen on a regular basis, coz people donno how to drive.

On 9/11/2018 at 10:32 PM, oldlakey said:

When and if you ever end up with somebody in authority who actually cares

Touche