Videos: Motorcyclist in lucky escape as car hits barrier

[webfact]

Videos: Motorcyclist in lucky escape as car hits barrier

 

Cap: Unexpected......encountered vehicles jostling on the road

 

Videos from a dash cam and a rear cam showed differing views of what Daily News said was a kind of jousting match between two white cars  - a Mazda and a Yaris. 

 

Finally after cutting in front of the other car one ends up hitting the center barrier and narrowly avoids killing a motorcyclist innocently riding on the far left. 

 

The motorcyclist is flung from his bike as the car smashes into the roadside barrier. 

 

The footage was posted by Kati Angel and was taken from a winding road in Chiang Mai on Friday evening.

 

Source: Daily News

 

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2019-05-20

Follow Thaivisa on LINE for breaking Thailand news and visa info

 

 

 

 

[PatOngo]

Will they ever grasp the concept of the horseless carriage?

[RotBenz8888]

And the lucky number is.........

[geoffbezoz]

so where is the video ?

[Lungstib]

Safe road use depends on two simple things. First is obeying a few obvious rules. The other is realising you have to share the roads with others. Thais obviously have an awful problem with both these things and are determined to show they are different, better and unbounded by restrictions.

[Vacuum]

21 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

Will they ever grasp the concept of the horseless carriage?

Two generations from now.

[Happy Grumpy]

So what upset the Yaris driver?

 

Did the other car have the gall to over take him?

 

Pull into his lane?

 

Simply exist within his ego god zone? 

[PatOngo]

13 minutes ago, Vacuum said:

Two generations from now.

Optimist!

[richard_smith237]

How is this even possible??? the small white car crashed for no reason whatsoever !!! 

Its either a front right blowout or simply terrible, most awful driving of grade A1 fuckwittery... 

 

Of note is that both the Cam-car and a pickup stopped (I'm assuming to get out and help). 

[keith101]

There is no proper driver training in Thailand with no Realtime testing in traffic in order to obtain their license like in most western countries and this is why most Thai don't even hold a license .

[keith101]

2 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

How is this even possible??? the Mazda 2 crashed for no reason whatsoever !!! 

Its either a front right blowout or simply terrible, most awful driving of grade A1 fuckwittery... 

 

Of note is that both the Cam-car and a pickup stopped (I'm assuming to get out and help). 

Or as most do on their phone watching something or texting .

[Vacuum]

3 minutes ago, keith101 said:

There is no proper driver training in Thailand with no Realtime testing in traffic in order to obtain their license

That's because it would be solved by handing over an envelope.

[Isaanbiker]

I got hit by an airborne CBR 150 when driving in my pick up with wifey.

 

   This poor bloke gets hit by a car on his motorbike. Unbelievable.

 

    TLAV= The Land of Airborne Vehicles.

 

  Nothing else matters. 

 

[transam]

I reckon he picked the wrong place to reach under the seat for his .38....????

[Isaanbiker]

13 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

How is this even possible??? the small white car crashed for no reason whatsoever !!! 

Its either a front right blowout or simply terrible, most awful driving of grade A1 fuckwittery... 

 

Of note is that both the Cam-car and a pickup stopped (I'm assuming to get out and help). 

The biggest problem in my eyes is that they can reproduce! 

[Isaanbiker]

3 minutes ago, transam said:

I reckon he picked the wrong place to reach under the seat for his .38....????

to send some warm Greetings from Smith & Wesson.

[taotoo]

1 hour ago, Happy Grumpy said:

So what upset the Yaris driver?

 

Did the other car have the gall to over take him?

 

Pull into his lane?

 

Simply exist within his ego god zone? 

Looks to me like he hogs the fast lane, gets undertaken and aggressively pulled in front of and gets upset as you say. Looks like the canal road going into CM from the south - a fast road with strangely tight bends.

 

So many incidents here start with people not driving in the left-most lane unless overtaking.

[Just Weird]

2 hours ago, Lungstib said:

Safe road use depends on two simple things. First is obeying a few obvious rules. The other is realising you have to share the roads with others. Thais obviously have an awful problem with both these things and are determined to show they are different, better and unbounded by restrictions.

"Thais obviously have an awful problem with both these things..."

What was the outcome of your investigation into the nationalities of the drivers in this incident, then?

[Just Weird]

1 hour ago, keith101 said:

There is no proper driver training in Thailand with no Realtime testing in traffic in order to obtain their license like in most western countries and this is why most Thai don't even hold a license .

"...this is why most Thai don't even hold a license".

Most Thais?  Says who?

[Just Weird]

1 hour ago, DonDoRondo said:

It will always be dangerous to drive here until the police start using cruisers to pull 

people over for bad driving......easier to set up a road block and harass scooter riders.                                               

"...until the police start using cruisers to pull people over...".

Local police stations are not provided with enough budget by the government to do that, don't blame the police.

[transam]

2 minutes ago, Just Weird said:

"...until the police start using cruisers to pull people over...".

Local police stations are not provided with enough budget by the government to do that, don't blame the police.

But they do for submarines that are not needed....

 

Anyhooo, where are the paid BiB .......What do they do all day....?

[Razek]

1 hour ago, richard_smith237 said:

How is this even possible??? the small white car crashed for no reason whatsoever !!! 

Its either a front right blowout or simply terrible, most awful driving of grade A1 fuckwittery... 

 

Of note is that both the Cam-car and a pickup stopped (I'm assuming to get out and help). 

It looks like the steering wheel Axe is defected. It happen to me the car go right or side left and the steering wheel move but without contact with the wheel

[JimSaints]

3 hours ago, geoffbezoz said:

so where is the video ?

Should have gone to Specsavers ...

[geoffbezoz]

1 minute ago, JimSaints said:

Should have gone to Specsavers ...

could you send me the specsavers link to that video please

[JulesMad]

2 shitty cars with useless incompetent drivers, competing about who will be first at the next traffic light... Brains as big as trumpy's dick ????

[Maejo Man]

30 years ago the Canal Road was a dirt track and much safer then as they couldn't speed!!

[300sd]

4 hours ago, Just Weird said:

"...this is why most Thai don't even hold a license".

Most Thais?  Says who?

Considering the way they drive or park, how could they earn a license? They drive like they don't have them, or much of anything for that "matter"

[hotchilli]

That motorcycle rider was a split second from being totally wiped out... for good

but without a helmet I bet he spat out a couple of teeth as he seemed to hit the tarmac face first!!

[transam]

3 hours ago, geoffbezoz said:

could you send me the specsavers link to that video please

I think we can all see the vids.....Try again, top of the first page....????

[diddygq]

5 hours ago, Just Weird said:

"...this is why most Thai don't even hold a license".

Most Thais?  Says who?

I would guess about 30% of Thais driving don't have a driver's license.  My wife's father drives a beat up old pickup for his work. He's never had a license and has been driving 40+ years without one. This is very common outside of Bangkok. He had the nerve to try and drive our car but I wouldn't let him for insurance reasons.