2 hours ago, Moonlover said:

 

So it's funny is it? You have a very distorted sense of humour!

Me too..........how can that many people die on "straight roads"? For God's sake what is wrong here? People incl. Police and Govt authorities seem to have no idea of reponsibility or accountably! Yup, "laughable" it is - how else can you describe it? 

What about the statistics for motorbike riders knocked of their bikes by these water throwing morons?

For ten years I've been waiting for a sign things might change! Sadly they have NO CLUE as to what to do!  NO CLUE!  It is an epidemic!

heading down to Koh Lanta the other day we were passed by a pickup with several people in the back, he was doing well over 100klm, he was on the opposite side of the road passing while over double lines on blind corners, one car approaching him on one corner had to drive off the road to avoid a head on and he still kept to that side of the road. When you have idiots like this on the road how in the hell do you stop road deaths, there are no police on the road to pull over these idiots, there were maybe 8 or so police checks with cones out on the road set up but the cops were sitting in the tents drinking, they dont give a sh*t what happens then on the way back today there was a body spread out on the road, bike rider cleaned up at a uturn on a straight section of road by a new red plated car, thai roads are simply death traps waiting to happen

Edited April 16, 20197 yr by seajae

10 hours ago, RotBenz8888 said:

Not that a Thai driving licence mean that much, but 58, 950 driving without any licence? If anything, a sign of demoralisation and disrespect.

But that number reflects only those that were stopped! I read somewhere that around 30% of all vehicles registered in Thailand have no tax or insurance as well as drivers without a valid licence. And this is so because of a lack of enforcement and a proper system of deterrent, which is no different than half a generation I have been living here.

Hmmm.... here we go again. If you believe something will happen for long enough it will happen. The piles of dead bodies will refute this(as usual)

20 hours ago, webfact said:

His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn, meanwhile, expressed concern

 

Can  only  assume they have run out of  fingers and toes to count on this year, it's  the only  thing that makes  sense in those  figures!

12 hours ago, thailand49 said:

For ten years I've been waiting for a sign things might change! Sadly they have NO CLUE as to what to do!  NO CLUE!  It is an epidemic!

They must have some clue? They keep telling everyone they are now Thai 4.0! I missed the intervening period between Thai 1.0 & 4.0.

I even found Thai 1.0 hard to believe. ????

 

Not everything is bad in the Kingdom but just too many dumbassed "actions" for a country that should be willing and capable of learning from others.

53 minutes ago, lvr181 said:

They must have some clue? They keep telling everyone they are now Thai 4.0! I missed the intervening period between Thai 1.0 & 4.0.

I even found Thai 1.0 hard to believe. ????

 

Not everything is bad in the Kingdom but just too many dumbassed "actions" for a country that should be willing and capable of learning from others.

Starting from the top and I mean top!  enable to have a clue to start to address the problem one must be given alternatives, educated or experience another form of driving instead those who can make the changes know of only one thing " This is Thailand "  they have no clue where to start so they keep coming up with the same stuff, put up signs, do their monthly or holiday checkpoints and show on their T.V. the accidents daily but even the news commentators can't explain the reason for the accidents because from top to bottom they have taken something so simple into a deadly act.

 

Here is a good example two days ago in Pattaya, I was riding my motorbike down Soi Siam Country Club, one lane up and one lane down always traveling at speed 40 Km/h more on the left allowing anyone going faster than me to get by instead of allowing them to tailgate me to get me out of their way! 7-10 seconds ahead I can already see a large bus ahead slowing down due for a white vehicle pulling out of the gas station on the left in front of the bus driver provided the courteous so the vehicle can cross to the other side of the road to make a right to head up the opposite direction. The vehicle had now taken 60% of the road anything coming in both direction, in theory, should no longer have any right away.

 

As I saw the bus slow down another motorbike flew by at speeds easily 90 Km/H heading towards the bus who had slow down for the other vehicle no education on the part of the biker just pedal to the medal he swings outside to overtake the bus see the car now but refuse to slow down and try to go around the car instead smack himself dead 90 plus into the front of the car front bumper!

 

As I got off my bike I could see the position of the biker neck it was broken. I could hear the Thais around giving their opinion as to what happened pretty much blaming the vehicle "This is Thailand" the car should have watched out for the biker!

 

Drivers here are so conditioned to doing this wrong they actually think it is the right way?  thus no clue to fix it!