Bangkok: Student on new motorcycle hits bridge and falls to death on car below

 

Picture: Daily News

 

A 22 year old university student on a brand new bike without plates hit the side of the Rama 4 bridge over the five way Pak Kret intersection and plunged to his death below.

 

Pak Kret police at the scene in the Tuesday rush-hour found the lifeless body of Benjaphon Meehiran on the back of a Toyota Altis. 

 

The body had a helmet in place and there was blood coming from the nose. 

 

Up on the bridge a red Honda PCX was found on its side. There was damage to the edge of the bridge. 

 

Altis driver Somphop Phokaew, 57, said he was going to pick up his wife and child from a school in Petchkasem when he heard a loud noise and thought someone had gone into him. 

 

He got out of the car to find that a large crowd had gathered to look at the remains of the young student that had smashed his trunk and the rear window of the vehicle. 

 

A friend of the victim that arrived at the scene said that he had just bought the motorcycle and was going home from university when the accident occurred. 

 

The accident happened outside Major Pak Kret in the Nonthaburi area north of Bangkok.

 

Source: Daily News

 

 

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RIP! Speeding without having much experience is never good.

 

  

Fortunately the first time I came off there was only a hedge.

The student drunk himself and pushed the gears to high.....

Deaths from motorcycles seem to keep the population numbers down.

1 hour ago, MaxLee said:

The student drunk himself and pushed the gears to high.....

A PCX got no gears, it's automatic. ????

poor kid .... 22 yr old is best age ...

RIP.

Don’t blame the new bike....blame the operator who didn’t have sufficient time nor practice b/f taking it out into a mean unforgiving world....

2 hours ago, hkt83100 said:

A PCX got no gears, it's automatic. ????

Then it still has gears but is self-changing......

2 minutes ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

Then it still has gears but is self-changing......

It has gears in the final transmission which don't change. There are no gears in the primary transmission but the ratio changes. ????

Edited June 12, 20197 yr by VocalNeal

2 hours ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

Then it still has gears but is self-changing......

Technically no it doesn't have "gears" it has CVT or continuously variable transmission, which is basically a couple of variable pulleys, connected by a drive belt, which adjust the faster you go.

I added looking up to my 360 years ago but I suppose nothing can prepare you if your taken out by a flying corpse ????RIP

5 hours ago, toenail said:

Deaths from motorcycles seem to keep the population numbers down.

How wrong you are 

Thai population is growing fast despite meny dead on roads 

In this case he probably died because lack of driving skills and high speed 

Thai people never learn 

High speed kills but again this is me first generation 

6 hours ago, toenail said:

Deaths from motorcycles seem to keep the population numbers down.

 

17 minutes ago, Henrik Andersen said:

How wrong you are 

Thai population is growing fast despite meny dead on roads 

In this case he probably died because lack of driving skills and high speed 

Thai people never learn 

High speed kills but again this is me first generation 

He said death via motorcycle accidents seems to keep the population numbers down... which indeed they do...

He did not say that it puts the population into minus figures!

1 hour ago, ChiangmaiRob said:

Technically no it doesn't have "gears" it has CVT or continuously variable transmission, which is basically a couple of variable pulleys, connected by a drive belt, which adjust the faster you go.

C,mon, this is about some poor kid getting killed, not motorbike specs !

2 hours ago, Henrik Andersen said:

How wrong you are 

Thai population is growing fast despite meny dead on roads 

In this case he probably died because lack of driving skills and high speed 

Thai people never learn 

High speed kills but again this is me first generation 

You may want to check your facts. Thailand's birth rate is at 1.48. Not very good. Plus this:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-valentines-day-thailand-idUSKCN1FY0Z5

Here lays the body of benjaphon,his bike stopped but he went on.

full marks for being so kind just to take himself out and none of the innocent.in fact give the fella a medal as he's now earned his parachute wings.

1 hour ago, happy chappie said:

Here lays the body of benjaphon,his bike stopped but he went on.

full marks for being so kind just to take himself out and none of the innocent.in fact give the fella a medal as he's now earned his parachute wings.

I think there is a  fine divide in interpretation of that which I cannot decide if is  crass or  sympathetic. But I do lean towards one  side of that divide .

So, probably no experience on a bike and no license. RIP

10 hours ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

Then it still has gears but is self-changing......

It's not like a car.it has only one gear that variates with the speed.

2 hours ago, Dumbastheycome said:

I think there is a  fine divide in interpretation of that which I cannot decide if is  crass or  sympathetic. But I do lean towards one  side of that divide .

Bad luck would have my sympathy but stupidity don't im afraid to say.

I wasn't there and don't know the cause, only what I read. There are ample TVF experts, most likely not having witnessed the tragedy, who will opine the "facts" as they see them. Another senseless roadway death in this Land of Sadness.

13 hours ago, bkkgriz said:

You may want to check your facts. Thailand's birth rate is at 1.48. Not very good.

I didn't know about that and had a look at Thailand's demographic on wikipedia.

Birth is going down and death is going up at an alarming rate ????

Within a few years the population will be shrinking.

 

Year / Population / birth / death / change

2012	64,456,695	801,737	415,141	386,596
2013	64,456,695	748,081	426,065	322,016
2014	65,124,716	711,081	435,624	275,457
2015	65,729,098	736,352	456,391	279,961
2016	65,931,550	704,058	480,434	223,624
2017	66,188,503	702,755	468,911	233,844

Saw a kid riding a bike on a busy road yesterday, he could not have been any older than 10 or 11, no helmet, flip flops, no brain.

17 hours ago, phantomfiddler said:

C,mon, this is about some poor kid getting killed, not motorbike specs !

The motorbike specs are far more interesting than just another copy and paste Thai road accident statistic- because that’s all he is now.

On ‎6‎/‎12‎/‎2019 at 9:42 AM, Isaanbiker said:

RIP! Speeding without having much experience is never good.

Where did it say that he was speeding?

On ‎6‎/‎12‎/‎2019 at 9:47 AM, MaxLee said:

The student drunk himself and pushed the gears to high.....

What does that mean?

19 hours ago, Henrik Andersen said:

How wrong you are 

Thai population is growing fast despite meny dead on roads 

In this case he probably died because lack of driving skills and high speed 

Thai people never learn 

High speed kills but again this is me first generation 

"In this case he probably died because lack of driving skills and high speed"

How can you possibly know that was probable?  And speculation doesn't count.

13 hours ago, Ulic said:

So, probably no experience on a bike and no license. RIP

So, probably, you have no idea of the circumstances.

12 hours ago, happy chappie said:

Bad luck would have my sympathy but stupidity don't im afraid to say.

How was the student in this accident showing "stupidity"?