Loei teacher in lucky escape as "knot" smashes through her car window

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Police were called to the Loei - Chiang Khan Road after a teacher had a lucky escape from a flying object.

 

Dararat Khemjorn, 40, was driving home from school when the object flew in via the driver's side window and landed at her feet. 

 

She managed to maintain control of her Yaris and park by the side of the road. 

 

She was slightly hurt by flying glass. 

 

Thai Rath said the object was a knot that came loose from the central reservation. 

 

They wondered how that might have happened. 

 

The incident happened yesterday evening between KM markers 9 and 10 in Muang district of the north eastern Thai province. 

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

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I was expecting to see a bird ????

 

Is it a knot or not?

It looks like a Cat Eye Glass Lane Divider.

It looks like a Cat Eye Glass Lane Divider.

 It isn't a cats eye, it's a reflective road stud, these come in quite a few different forms.

The original cats eye design was invented by a guy from Halifax.

 

 

 

 

 

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21 minutes ago, roo860 said:

 It isn't a cats eye, it's a reflective road stud, these come in quite a few different forms.

The original cats eye design was invented by a guy from Halifax.

 

 

 

 

 

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Percy Shaw (apparently related to my Grandma - Or so she used to always tell us when Granddad was driving down the road)...

 

This, I suspect, is a bad translation of the Thai word, น็อต, which is pronounced knot or not and means nut in English.

 

Thing is, it is neither a knot (bird, rope, shoelace, nautical mile, whatever) or a nut (edible or mechanical).

 

So I give up on that front and just feel some empathetic relief and happiness at the fact the car driver was uninjured.

well done to the lady driver for not panicking must have been a hell of a shock.

The described road is plastered with some reflective(?) markers for the center divider.

Unfortuately the street view is too blurry to be sure if it's one of these.

Could have come loose and thrown up by an other car.

 

Considering the debris on most roads it could have been anything!!

If I’m right he saw a cat sat on a fence while he was driving and the light reflected back - that’s why called cats eyes! 

22 minutes ago, phil2407 said:

If I’m right he saw a cat sat on a fence while he was driving and the light reflected back - that’s why called cats eyes!

Ok , I know its old but ...............if the cat was walking away he would of invented the pencil sharpener.

In the Thairath linked article, they call it a หมุดเกาะกลาง.
A หมุด is a peg, pin or thumbtack. So I guess they believe it's something like a reflective road stud for a traffic island or street isle.

 

17 hours ago, webfact said:

They wondered how that might have happened. 

Knot enough No Nails by the look of things .. 

18 hours ago, webfact said:

 

Thai Rath said the object was a knot that came loose from the central reservation. 

who writes these things? this is worst than a google translation.

On 11/22/2018 at 12:15 PM, Briggsy said:

This, I suspect, is a bad translation of the Thai word, น็อต, which is pronounced knot or not and means nut in English.

 

Thing is, it is neither a knot (bird, rope, shoelace, nautical mile, whatever) or a nut (edible or mechanical).

 

So I give up on that front and just feel some empathetic relief and happiness at the fact the car driver was uninjured.

Google translate plus Thai imagination! 

 

Re. bad and totally wrong translations: Has anyone noticed that some Thai telephone answering menu choices for banking etc. are wrongly translating the 'hash' key '#' as 'the pound sign"' e.g., "please enter your account number followed by the pound sign (£)" when they mean the hash key (#). How the hell did they balls that one up!!!

6 minutes ago, SunsetT said:

How the hell did they balls that one up!!!

Our friends from the good 'ole US of A I'm afraid.

 

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/what-is-the-name-of-the-symbol/

 

4 minutes ago, Crossy said:

Our friends from the good 'ole US of A I'm afraid.

 

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/what-is-the-name-of-the-symbol/

 

Well I never! Thats totally new to me. Thanks Crossy and sorry to Thailand.

She needs to do the lottery now she can knot be killed????