Video: Many injuries as staff bus collides with tow truck doing a U-turn

 

 

Dash cam footage from a staff bus show the moment that it collided with a truck doing a dangerous U-turn.

 

Just after overtaking another truck and going round a bend the bus brakes and the horn sounds but it is too late to avert a collision. 

 

The bus was taking staff home from Amata City on Wednesday evening.

 

The accident happened at a hill called Krathing Daeng in Bowin district of Sri Racha. 

 

It was posted on the Facebook page of Phiaw Yiang Thai Sri Racha (Bowin) foundation who said there were many injuries. 

 

Thai Rath said that the date on the footage did not match when the accident actually occurred. 

 

No other details were reported. 

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

 

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Bus going too fast (as usual).

brilliant post, how about mentioning the lorry doing a U turn,

Just now, BritManToo said:

Bus going too fast (as usual).

What!! The bloody truck driver should never have attempted a u turn there, what was the idiot thinking.

Poor bus driver had no chance of avoiding hitting the truck.

They haven't mastered how to do u-turns in vehicles yet.

 

Maybe in a few decades they'll learn that it takes more space than when doing one on a buffalo. 

 

 

 

Typical Thai bad maneuver?.......yes.

 

Typical Thai failure to perceive, anticipate and react accordingly?.........yes.

 

And don't forget the usual bit of "good luck" junk swinging around, blocking the drivers nearside line of sight.

 

Put them together and Thailand gets to be where it is on the death chart.

 

 

 

 

Edited February 1, 20197 yr by Enoon

Not a lot you can say; except....just another day on Thai roads !

1 hour ago, Enoon said:

 

Typical Thai bad maneuver?.......yes.

 

Typical Thai failure to perceive, anticipate and react accordingly?.........yes.

 

And don't forget the usual bit of "good luck" junk swinging around, blocking the drivers nearside line of sight.

 

Put them together and Thailand gets to be where it is on the death chart.

 

 

 

 

In most motor accidents that involve two or more vehicles it is likely that blame can be proportioned between all parties.

2 hours ago, mercman24 said:

brilliant post, how about mentioning the lorry doing a U turn,

It wouldn't have been a problem if the bus had been driving at the speed limit.

The lorry driver probably didn't foresee the bus being driven at twice the speed it should have been.

 

I've spent 50hrs on Thai busses in the last two weeks, seat belts broken and unusable in three of the four busses I was on, drivers driving too fast then stopping for too long. I just closed my eyes and hoped for the best, I was lucky, many aren't.

Edited February 1, 20197 yr by BritManToo

1 hour ago, trainman34014 said:

Not a lot you can say; except....just another day on Thai roads !

I had something to say! I watched the final moment 3 times and heard myself

say out loud "you a**hole".

But only my computer and my dog heard me.

 

Enough said.

It wouldn't have been a problem if the bus had been driving at the speed limit.

The lorry driver probably didn't foresee the bus being driven at twice the speed it should have been.

 

I've spent 50hrs on Thai busses in the last two weeks, seat belts broken and unusable in three of the four busses I was on, drivers driving too fast then stopping for too long. I just closed my eyes and hoped for the best, I was lucky, many aren't.

What speed was he driving at? What's the speed limit on that section of highway?

 

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1) Complete idiot driving the tow truck.

2) How can he pull out on a major highway with two big vehicles in the mirror.

Starting to pull out about 60 m (?) ahead of the bus.

Porsche 911 could have stopped but not a big bus.

 

3) That any turn at this point is forbidden is just an "add-on".

Who cares about color on the road.

He wouldn't even be able to do the turn in one swing.

Road to narrow for that.

See 1)!

 

Edited February 1, 20197 yr by KhunBENQ

The bus is allowed 80 km/h (50 mph) on that road.

It doesn't look excessively fast.

Its not a tow truck,its a truck with a small  crane,

used for lifting pallets of bricks off,whatever,the

driver must have looked at oncoming traffic,and

not what was coming up behind him,and just

pulled out in front of the bus,if you cannot see

a bus coming,you should not be on the roads..

regards worgeordie

Bus was driving too fast to avoid any accident, and the truck driver didn't have enough brains to foresee he would be blocking lanes in order to make a U turn, in a bad location~absolutely normal here

5 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Bus going too fast (as usual).

I don't think the bus was going too fast. if you take these road markings and the container lorry as reference he was most likely not faster than 83 km/h.
this accident is solely the fault of the Hiup driver. perhaps, he forgot that he was not riding his Honda Wave. or most probable just plain mai pen rai.

5 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Bus going too fast (as usual).

I guess, and yes I'm just guessing that you used to be in traffic accident investigation.???? Did you not see the car and the van in front obviously going faster than the bus. Can you not see that the bus is overtaking a truck. Oh! Wait there's more. It's a down hill gradient and you can also see that the truck has it's hazard lights on and is not indicating. Apart from this it's a very stupid place to do a u-turn because there might be a bus coming around the corner. Still, I'm sure your right.????

So the truck driver never saw the two solid yellow lines plus yellow diagonals in the middle of the road, along with traffic approaching from behind!!

 

He should visit Specsavers!!

6 hours ago, mercman24 said:

brilliant post, how about mentioning the lorry doing a U turn,

Yes indeed, and at a point where this no official U-turn!

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Just after overtaking another truck and going round a bend the bus brakes and the horn sounds but it is too late to avert a collision.

Lol..... seems a lot more like sounding the horn, expecting that the noise will somehow ensure collision avoidance, vs applying the brakes, which is a common occurrence here

 

personally, in a case like that, if I was driving, I’d be doing just about anything other than sounding the damn horn.... maybe emergency braking with both hands in a death grip on the steering wheel.... but not the horn, as that is absolutely pointless, as evidenced.

7 hours ago, Happy Grumpy said:

They haven't mastered how to do u-turns in vehicles yet.

They haven't mastered how to do u-turns in vehicles yet. ! Full stop, end of message! 

9 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Bus going too fast (as usual).

Are you blind?

The bus was completely within his rights to be doing what he was doing, overtaking in a dual lane stretch of road, the truck driver doing a U-turn on this road needs to be locked up!

19 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Bus going too fast (as usual).

Too Fast? Looks like he was the same speed or slower than the cars in front of him. I've driven past trucks on a hill. They drive slow.

 

I was in a restaurant near the station at Surat Thani. I noticed the driver having a couple of cold beers while they loaded the bus. Glad I was going on the train. Also buses are seriously underpowered it takes them forever to get up to speed causing the drivers to do anything to not loose speed. You will see this on the smallest of hills they slow right down and start grabbing gears immediately. So you have a fool pulling out in front of another fool ,bad situation.

From my experience its obligatory to make sure something is clearly coming before making a risky manoeuvre its a way of checking brakes apparently ????