Carnage on the Thai roads: Just another manic Monday.....and Tuesday

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Daily News reported the latest death toll on the Thai roads as 56 on Monday and 59 on Tuesday. 

 

They cautioned that these were just deaths at the scene of accidents and the toll would likely rise when those who succumbed in hospital were added. 

 

This brought the confirmed death toll on the Thai roads - considered some of the most dangerous in the world - to 4,017 since the start of the year. 

 

This month stands at 115 after just two days. 

 

 

In the latest accidents shown on their site they showed a Toyota Fortuner that had hit a roadside pipe on the Kanchanaburi to Makam Tia Road in Muang district. The driver was killed and was thought to have fallen asleep at the wheel. 

 

In a CCTV clip a white pick-up was seen cutting in front of another pick-up that subsequently veered into cars waiting at a U-turn. Many vehicles were reportedly damaged. 

 

It was not reported where this was. 

 

Daily News report the damning stats every day in a campaign to raise awareness and warn drivers of the hazards of getting behind the wheel in Thailand. 

 

Source: Daily News

 

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mind numbing same same.

I don’t see any white pickups slamming into other vehicles. Silver pickup? Yes. Thai reporting on par with driving skills


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The only way to survive here on the road, is to be patient, have eyes in the back of your head, drive with caution, and always, and I mean always watch out of the other guy. Chances are, he does not have much driving skill, nor patience, nor reason, nor common sense. You cannot be too careful on the road here. Especially considering that the toy police offer no traffic safety, nor enforcement of the law. 

 

The police only show up after the accident takes place. There is nothing in the way of traffic safety on the roads, or on the highways. Those traffic stops are all about weapons, drugs and handouts. Nothing to do with safety. I suppose there is no money in traffic safety. However, if they levied real fines for speeding over 120kph, for reckless driving, making severely quick lane changes, etc, there would be some money to be made, and the highways would be safer. 

 

Just a few days ago, I was driving along at about 110kph, on a good, straight stretch of highway. A safe speed. And some joker cuts in front of me with his pickup truck. Within two meters in front of me, then slams on his brakes. I guess he never stopped to look at the lane he was cutting into to see that there was no room for him! I slammed on my brakes to avoid the numnut, and barely missed him. Would have been a horrific crash. Why? What was the point of him changing lanes? Why didn't he look first? Who changes lanes without looking first, when they are doing over 100 kph? Why so little regard for his wife, and for others? Where does that mentality come from? Why do Thais seem so polite, yet when they get into a car, everything they have ever learned in life goes right out the window? Why so little in the way of common sense, reason, and the ability to be careful and maintain some vision? Why such idiocy? The apparent lack of skill and peripheral awareness on the road here is very scary.

 

Real men do what is necessary to save lives. Kids and highly underdeveloped people make promises, tell lies and engage in deflection.

 

 

Looks like an action movie as if he tried a u-turn full-speed ????

17 minutes ago, Gweiloman said:

I don’t see any white pickups slamming into other vehicles. Silver pickup? Yes. Thai reporting on par with driving skills


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Thanks for picking up on the most important part. It's unforgivable to get colors wrong.

 

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Who ta best in ta wornd?

Perhaps s mandatory 5 year jail sentence for those caught driving without a licence..ditto for DOI..a 2 year mandatory sentence for those without license re motor bikes..6 months for those re no helmet driving same.
Something must be done.

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Thailand and the UK have similar populations. The annual road death toll in the UK averages out at about 5 per day.

The roads have always been this way and always will be until the government forces the media to report different numbers even more than they already do. 

 

The WHO says that Thailand underreports by at least 30%, and that was pre-Junta. Wrap your head around that.

Pollution and death roads.  and immigration problems.  

 

BUT you can live off 250 baht a day IF you really, really must.  

 

and a girl might smile at you if you pay them 2000 baht

 

and you can find beer at 7

 

when i was young, my dream retirement was in smog and roads where everyone dies.

 

LOL

6 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

The only way to survive here on the road, is to be patient, have eyes in the back of your head, drive with caution, and always, and I mean always watch out of the other guy. Chances are, he does not have much driving skill, nor patience, nor reason, nor common sense. You cannot be too careful on the road here. Especially considering that the toy police offer no traffic safety, nor enforcement of the law. 

 

The police only show up after the accident takes place. There is nothing in the way of traffic safety on the roads, or on the highways. Those traffic stops are all about weapons, drugs and handouts. Nothing to do with safety. I suppose there is no money in traffic safety. However, if they levied real fines for speeding over 120kph, for reckless driving, making severely quick lane changes, etc, there would be some money to be made, and the highways would be safer. 

 

Just a few days ago, I was driving along at about 110kph, on a good, straight stretch of highway. A safe speed. And some joker cuts in front of me with his pickup truck. Within two meters in front of me, then slams on his brakes. I guess he never stopped to look at the lane he was cutting into to see that there was no room for him! I slammed on my brakes to avoid the numnut, and barely missed him. Would have been a horrific crash. Why? What was the point of him changing lanes? Why didn't he look first? Who changes lanes without looking first, when they are doing over 100 kph? Why so little regard for his wife, and for others? Where does that mentality come from? Why do Thais seem so polite, yet when they get into a car, everything they have ever learned in life goes right out the window? Why so little in the way of common sense, reason, and the ability to be careful and maintain some vision? Why such idiocy? The apparent lack of skill and peripheral awareness on the road here is very scary.

 

Real men do what is necessary to save lives. Kids and highly underdeveloped people make promises, tell lies and engage in deflection.

 

 

Reckon you've been around here long enough to know the answers to your own questions. ''Everything they have ever learned in their life ''... is sadly not a lot !     I've been here almost 14 years myself and have found most Thai Men to be selfish knuckleheads who care little for anyone or anyone else's opinion's about anything.  They all think they know best and are the Worlds best drivers; and the best everything else because they are 'clever'....because their Mum's told them so !

 

 

 

 

 

 

6 minutes ago, edwinchester said:

Thailand and the UK have similar populations. The annual road death toll in the UK averages out at about 5 per day.

They also don’t squat to eat next to open sewers and piles of trash with rats and roaches running about.

 

I’m going to assume it’s mandatory for those in the UK to go through driving school before getting a license. Add better critical thinking skills and not driving based on their belief in fate (or face), and you have MUCH better drivers.

 

14 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Why do Thais seem so polite, yet when they get into a car, everything they have ever learned in life goes right out the window?

I think you answered your own question. The keyword is "seem".

Renewed my licence yesterday. Sat through an extremely boring 90 mins of hypothetical scenarios about marked and unmarked crossroads, none of which exist in my district, and who has the right of way. Nothing about speeds, overtaking, positioning of vehicle at said junctions, overloading, yellow no passing lines on road. All relevant info ignored, just a minor delay in getting a new license. Hilarious if it wasn't so deadly.

Edited April 3, 20197 yr by Lungstib
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ช้าลงหน่อย

 

Print signs and stickers.

19 minutes ago, malagateddy said:

Perhaps s mandatory 5 year jail sentence for those caught driving without a licence.

What would this help? Having a license or not they'd drive in the same manner.

Out of control pickups death from every direction happy days in paradise????

Laos Khao

What is a driving school? ????????

And  the real  cheap way to "help"in the short  term would be to   stagger u  turns at 800 metres distance and ONE WAY only so you can actually have a CLEAR  view of the road, also only  make them wide enough for ONE  car as there's  always some  git who will not wait and drives right to the front causing even more problems as theyre  too important to wait at the back of the U  Turn queue.

1 hour ago, edwinchester said:

Thailand and the UK have similar populations. The annual road death toll in the UK averages out at about 5 per day.

Don't tell it to a Thai! The answer would be: that explains the Brexit you amateurs.

Best if they all reverted to this form of travel I reckon. ???? 

1 hour ago, edwinchester said:

Thailand and the UK have similar populations. The annual road death toll in the UK averages out at about 5 per day.

Just goes to show, Thailand has the best, of the best,  of the best. 

 

 

Ps Hope they catch all the vappers and over stayers real quick.

 

 

Edited April 3, 20197 yr by stanleycoin

I have just got a drivers licence after driving here without for 27 years.

Only reason was that got caught without licence at a road block in Trat province,

The mandatory 1 hour video session that I sat through showed no blood, carnage etc, from speeding, ,sleeping at the wheel, not paying attention etc that happens here everyday.

BUT, it should.

Unfortunately most of the cause of accidents is because of lack of general education, ie: cause & effect.

Mufti cops on the road is the only way but they will not do due to so called"budget " restraints

Stupid

 

just getting into practice for the songkran main event. but in all seriousness, at some point this mai pen rai attitude has to stop, when is someone going to stand up and demand that the powers that be actually do something to stop this completely unnecessary carnage? ok ok, i know the answer already.

2 hours ago, dcnx said:

The roads have always been this way and always will be until the government forces the media to report different numbers even more than they already do. 

 

The WHO says that Thailand underreports by at least 30%, and that was pre-Junta. Wrap your head around that.

Most heads (helmetless) are wrapped around street furniture ...

If often makes me think why this is news.

 

You could recycle the same images day after day.

 

On any given day on the Ch3 news you will see CCTV or dashcam of some horrendous accident, then the pixelated footage of some dead person lying at the scene of the crash.

 

Doesn't seem to have any deterrent effect, so if that doesn't what will? 

2 hours ago, samsensam said:

 

just getting into practice for the songkran main event. but in all seriousness, at some point this mai pen rai attitude has to stop, when is someone going to stand up and demand that the powers that be actually do something to stop this completely unnecessary carnage? ok ok, i know the answer already.

Someone with S44 power could have made a better legacy by attacking this road carnage, thus making him well regarded for decades, sad that he chose the typical Thai path (me-first).

5 hours ago, cerox said:

Looks like an action movie as if he tried a u-turn full-speed ????

 

Many Thais drive as if they are playing a video game. I've been out this evening, and on the way a pickup came at us head-on and we had to pull to the side and stop. On the way back a pick-up overtook another pickup that was already overtaking a petrol tanker and the tanker had to pull off the road. There could have been a fireball. All this on just a 10-minute trip.

It's getting to the stage now where I am afraid to go out anywhere. At least I know how I'm going to die.