Nurse, motorcyclist killed as ambulance and bike collide in Chiang Mai

By The Nation

 

Picture: Channel 3

 

A nurse and a young motorcyclist were killed when an ambulance transporting two young patients home collided with the bike before hitting a roadside tree in Chiang Mai's Hot district on Thursday morning.

 

The accident, at 6am on the Chiang Mai-Hot road in Tambon Bo Kaew, also injured the ambulance driver, another nurse, two male patients and their father and mother.

 

The dead nurse was identified as Kriangkrai Boonji, 28, while the young motorcyclist was unidentified.

 

Phuriwan Chokkerd, a doctor at Chiang Mai Hospital who was at the scene of the accident, said the ambulance was transporting two male patients from Nakhon Ping Hospital in Chaing Mai's Muang district home after they had been treated.

 

The ambulance driver tried but failed to avoid hitting the motorcycle before crashing into a tree, Phuriwan said.

 

The injured were taken to Jom Thong and Hot district hospitals.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30357660

 

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From the state of the Ambulance,I would say he was driving too fast,

which he should not have been as not an emergency,just taking 2 Children

home, RIP the nurse and motorcyclist.

 

regards worgeordie

As a man who was trained in England to drive coaches I never cease to be amazed by the poor standard of 'professional' drivers in Thailand. Too close, too fast, no mirror use, but also the added problem of too many hours at the wheel. 40 years of handing out licenses to anyone with two arms, legs and eyes is catching up with the DLT. There is now almost always something coming the other way. Ambulance drivers need a special kind of training which almost for sure is non-existent.

I wouldn't jump to any conclusions just from the photos.  We can't see what the road looks likes as far as cross traffic, and it doesn't say how he tried to avoid the motorcycle.  Even at the speed limit if you drop a couple wheels off the road on the grass and mud it can be hard to control.  The picture of the damage on this page is AFTER they used hydraulic cutters to cut away the sheet metal and door frame to extricate the occupants who may have been pinned inside.  If you look at the photo in the original article, before they started cutting, I would say the damage for hitting a tree straight on could be consistent with driving at or even under the speed limit . Its a sad tragedy, but not enough facts to start making accusations.

Seat Belts ?

 

RIP

 

One cannot draw a conclusion that the driver was driving too fast based on ambulance damage....

 

sounds like the ambulance tried to swerve from hitting the bike (no success) and then into a tree....trees don’t move....

 

so whose fault was it? Someone made a fatal driving error....another opportunity to use in training materiel in which they won’t....

 

thailand just doesn’t take road driving seriously....

16 hours ago, worgeordie said:

From the state of the Ambulance,I would say he was driving too fast,

which he should not have been as not an emergency,just taking 2 Children

home, RIP the nurse and motorcyclist.

 

regards worgeordie

One thing you can be guaranteed of on Thai roads: people either drive aggressively, or ignorantly, or both.  Another day, more death and injuries.  Nothing changes. RIP.  Very sad.

1 hour ago, cardinalblue said:

sounds like the ambulance tried to swerve from hitting the bike

more likely the driver than the ambulance

2 hours ago, Chassa said:

Seat Belts ?

 

RIP

 

Valid comment; my wife works on the ambulance regularly and she mentioned several times already that nobody but her, the driver, and the patient have seatbelts on. The nurses cannot be bothered. Same with the pictures of her many many friends (doctors and nurses) on FB: barely any of them buy child seats for their kids, and many just have the kid on the lap in the passenger seat.

You would think that people who professionally rush to accident victims might know better... unfortunately not.

They fill in the injury report and note most people are seriously injured partly because of not wearing a seatbelt, only to drive home that same day and not wearing a seatbelt themselves.

You can find stupidity everywhere.

14 hours ago, silverhawk_usa said:

I wouldn't jump to any conclusions just from the photos.  We can't see what the road looks likes as far as cross traffic, and it doesn't say how he tried to avoid the motorcycle.  Even at the speed limit if you drop a couple wheels off the road on the grass and mud it can be hard to control.  The picture of the damage on this page is AFTER they used hydraulic cutters to cut away the sheet metal and door frame to extricate the occupants who may have been pinned inside.  If you look at the photo in the original article, before they started cutting, I would say the damage for hitting a tree straight on could be consistent with driving at or even under the speed limit . Its a sad tragedy, but not enough facts to start making accusations.

And then you did????

Almost 11,000 killed on Thai roads so far this year...Plus two more

 

5 hours ago, Chassa said:

Seat Belts ?

 

RIP

 

 

 

why, likely no police around

21 hours ago, worgeordie said:

From the state of the Ambulance,I would say he was driving too fast,

which he should not have been as not an emergency,just taking 2 Children

home, RIP the nurse and motorcyclist.

 

regards worgeordie

Forget the state of the ambulance & take a look at the size of the tree !!

Even at normal speeds the ambulance would be badly damaged when brought to an immediate stop upon impact, any passengers inside who were not "seat-belted" would have been thrown forward at the same crash speed !!

What do you expect,  this is a 3rd world country.   

3 hours ago, balo said:

What do you expect,  this is a 3rd world country.   

Yes, that would explain why accidents like this don't ever happen in the developed west, wouldn't it?

23 hours ago, Bendi said:

And then you did????

(Re: Post #11) No, I didn't.  Based on my 23 years experience as a police officer, trained in accident investigation and a certified pursuit/precision driving instructor, I said "the damage for hitting a tree straight on COULD be consistent with driving at or even under the speed limit".  That is not a conclusion.  I did not make any accusations.

19 hours ago, Just Weird said:

Yes, that would explain why accidents like this don't ever happen in the developed west, wouldn't it?

You live up to your name

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate

19 hours ago, Just Weird said:

Yes, that would explain why accidents like this don't ever happen in the developed west, wouldn't it?

You certainly have some strange weird ideas, time to change the meds, i think.

3 hours ago, White Christmas13 said:

You live up to your name

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate

 

2 hours ago, colinneil said:

You certainly have some strange weird ideas, time to change the meds, i think.

To both of you, look this word up, "sarcasm".

On 11/2/2018 at 1:32 AM, Chassa said:

Seat Belts ?

 

RIP

 

In the back of an ambulance??????  I think not.