Hungry driver plows into stopped traffic

[Rimmer]

Hungry driver plows into stopped traffic

PATTAYA:--The hungry driver of a television production van slammed into a pickup truck in Najomtien, creating his own little reality show.

 

Van passenger Chanatan Jarukurupin, 48, suffered a severe leg injury when a Toyota Hiace used by the film crew for the “Hua Jai Sila” soap opera collided with a truck stopped at a red light at the Nong Jub Tao intersection on Sukhumvit Road.

 

Van driver Paradorn Pakdee, who said the film crew was coming back from Bang Saray, admitted he took his eyes off the road, hungrily looking at a restaurant along the road and running straight into the stopped truck.

 

-- PATTAYA MAIL 2019-30-03--

[Vacuum]

Brake failure, sleeping behind the wheel and now being hungry. Excuses, excuses....  can't wait for the next one.

Edited March 30, 2019 by Vacuum

[ezzra]

Look no more, now you will enjoy the hospital food for the next few days...

[Radar501]

The hungry driver made his own traffic jam.

[geoffbezoz]

1 minute ago, Radar501 said:

The hungry driver made his own traffic jam.

Perhaps he was hoping for a T-bone ?

[JimSaints]

Somtam Emergency

[Pilotman]

11 minutes ago, ezzra said:

Look no more, now you will enjoy the hospital food for the next few days...

should be prison food. 

[Lemonltr]

You can see this continually with motorbike riders. Looking left and right "window shopping" just occasionally looking ahead. 

[petermik]

Keep yours eyes on your driving

Keep your hands on the wheel

And keep your beady eyes on the road ahead

For I,m having fun sittin in the back seat

Huggin and a kissing with Fred......

 

 

 

specifically for the UK expats of a "certain" age...

 

 

[chickenslegs]

42 minutes ago, ezzra said:

Look no more, now you will enjoy the hospital food for the next few days...

It was his passenger that got hurt.

No mention of any injury to the idiot behind the wheel.

 

1 hour ago, Rimmer said:

Van passenger Chanatan Jarukurupin, 48, suffered a severe leg injury

 

[Pilotman]

36 minutes ago, Lemonltr said:

You can see this continually with motorbike riders. Looking left and right "window shopping" just occasionally looking ahead. 

same as my wife in Tesco, she never looks in the direction she is walking; pushing a trolley she is lethal  

[CGW]

46 minutes ago, Lemonltr said:

You can see this continually with motorbike riders. Looking left and right "window shopping" just occasionally looking ahead. 

There certainly never going to look behind them! that's out of the question - spatial awareness is non existent here 

[essox essox]

49 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

should be prison food. 

YOUR right dead right !! same should apply to many thai drivers who cause bad accidents and make poor excuses for their OWN stupidity !!

[essox essox]

2 minutes ago, CGW said:

There certainly never going to look behind them! that's out of the question - spatial awareness is non existent here 

They dont look behind because many motorbikes have NO mirrors

[CGW]

31 minutes ago, essox essox said:

YOUR right dead right !! same should apply to many thai drivers who cause bad accidents and make poor excuses for their OWN stupidity !!

Which leads us back to ?  we come up with all these solutions, unfortunately the solution always involves BIB doing their jobs - not going to happen is it! 

In the meantime carnage will prevail! 

[Pilotman]

6 minutes ago, Kim J said:

Most likely he ran away.

bloke behind the wheel was too full to run anywhere. 

[toofarnorth]

3 hours ago, geoffbezoz said:

Perhaps he was hoping for a T-bone ?

Silly burger .

[Pilotman]

1 minute ago, toofarnorth said:

Silly burger .

he was a bit of a nugget 

[ratcatcher]

3 hours ago, petermik said:

Keep yours eyes on your driving

Keep your hands on the wheel

And keep your beady eyes on the road ahead

For I,m having fun sittin in the back seat

Huggin and a kissing with Fred......

specifically for the UK expats of a "certain" age...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

 

[ratcatcher]

4 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

bloke behind the wheel was too full to run anywhere. 

The driver has exited the van so the medic can attend to the portly passenger. 

[mikebell]

When hungry normal traffic rules do not apply to Thais who will double park whilst they eat their midday noodles.

When Thais are not hungry,, normal traffic rules do not apply.

[grifbel]

He was so hungry he tried to eat the traffic cones, rather than avoiding them.

[greenbottle555]

So I think we can all agree that the "I was looking at a restaurant" is a face saving excuse (ie: a lie told in exchange for saving face, which is culturally normal here no judgement). I hate to play medical doctor but I suspect he fell asleep at the wheel due to sleep apnea and simply cannot state "he fell asleep" or he (and the company that employs him) would appear to be really reckless. Thing is, sleep apnea is super common and all career drivers in western countries are required to be screened for it (take home sleep test, must pass) in order to drive on the roads. Given this guys apparent obesity and auto-accident involving not seeing the road at all (ie: probably asleep), my educated guess is that he fell asleep due to chronic sleep apnea. This isn't really his fault either, he doesn't even know he has a sleeping disorder and can't talk about it because people will just write him off as being lazy or hypochondriac. I know cause I have sleep apnea, my dad does (and can't drive because he falls asleep on the road all the time). The masses need to "wake up" with regards to sleep apnea, it's a real dangerous condition that causes a lot of traffic accidents.