Video Bike stops but pick-up is not so smart at railway crossing in Thailand

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Bike stops but pick-up is not so smart at railway crossing in Thailand

 

Image: Screenshot

 

CCTV made into a short video by Thai Rath showed the moment a motorcyclist looked on perplexed as a pick-up driver went straight through a railway crossing with the barrier down. 

 

The result was an instant smash with an oncoming train. 

 

The incident happened on Wednesday evening in front of the temple of Wat Yai Thasao in Uttaradit in the north of Thailand.

 

Thai Rath said that the accident resulted in injury without giving further details.

 

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[Denim]

The missing Thai gene , spacial awareness. Don't look , won't look ,

can't look.

 

[petermik]

Absolute <deleted> idiots on the roads here it seems.....

[Vacuum]

Where are the trains when you need them?

Edited June 28, 2019 by Vacuum

[Snuller21]

Oh yes. What to say but everyday happening in Thai traffic. Sad, but true.

[Vacuum]

Looking at the pic, it seems like the train passed the crossing already. Pic up driver probably had an urgent delivery to make.

[darksidedog]

8 minutes ago, Vacuum said:

Looking at the pic, it seems like the train passed the crossing already. Pic up driver probably had an urgent delivery to make.

At the instant he sees the train, I suspect there was an urgent bodily function he needed to make!

[sammieuk1]

Train spotting Thai style and reminds me of a video where the barriers were down the train was passing at least 5 cartridges past the crossing and a pickup drove through the barrier into the side of the train ????

[Katipo]

I swear that same banged up old blue pick up is responsible for about 50% of the idiotic traffic accidents in Thailand. 

[potless]

I shouldnt laugh but ????

[sammieuk1]

1 minute ago, darksidedog said:

At the instant he sees the train, I suspect there was an urgent bodily function he needed to make!

By the look of it he still doesn't know what hit him????

[Phuketshrew]

Natural gene pool selection in action.

 

Time for dash cams in trains?

[ezzra]

What do you expect from the driver whose IQ is about the same as the PSI tire pressure on his pickup...

[Pilotman]

6 minutes ago, potless said:

I shouldnt laugh but ????

I know, me too, had to smile. You wonder if the driver is actually a functioning member of the human race. 

[Pilotman]

4 minutes ago, ezzra said:

What do you expect from the driver whose IQ is about the same as the PSI tire pressure on his pickup...

That high eh? Must be a genius in Thai driver terms 

[Happy Grumpy]

I'm Thai and in a pickup. 

 

I wait for nothing and no one! 

 

Me me me barging through. 

Edited June 28, 2019 by Happy Grumpy

[potless]

Just now, Pilotman said:

I know, me too, had to smile. You wonder if the driver is actually a functioning member of the human race. 

Not any more by the look of it.

[taichiplanet]

5 minutes ago, ezzra said:

What do you expect from the driver whose IQ is about the same as the PSI tire pressure on his pickup...

is that why they pump their tyres up to 70 psi!

 

Love the reaction of the guy on the bike, the same sort of reaction i do now too.

[mercman24]

i think the IQ of many of thaivisa poster needs  bringing into question, some of the posts i read, what a dick of a train driver, didnt he see the pick up, why the hell didnt he swerve around it, (me thai) lol

[bluesofa]

23 minutes ago, Phuketshrew said:

Natural gene pool selection in action.

Time for dash cams in trains?

I thought they had them already?

[Somtamnication]

Don't blame the guy; the somtam shop was about to close!

[essox essox]

just shows the mentality of these braindead Thai drivers....just how do they get/are allowed on thai roads???

[kotsak]

I LOLed hard with the motorbike driver. It took him a second to react to the crash in front of him.. ????

[Matzzon]

We can just conclude that the man driving was not the smartest knife in the box. However, I am glad to hear that it just resulted in injuries, though.

That means, with so clear picture evidence, they can send an constaple to the hospital and fine him for driving on the wrong side of the road.

[potless]

Maybe he was heading that way and thought he would save some petrol. If I was tasked to make a video to portray driving in Thailand, I couldnt come up with anything better this.

 

[Lantern]

What an absolute muppet.

[scorecard]

1 hour ago, Denim said:

The missing Thai gene , spacial awareness. Don't look , won't look ,

can't look.

 

And from the video it's obvious the train is very close when the pick up driver starts driving across the rail line, plus there would be typical, not quiet, train noises and probably loud horn sounds from the train. Plus the barrier bells and lights are probably active at that moment. 

 

I wonder if the pickup driver was talking or texting on the phone?

 

Like other members I have several outer circle family members who do this stuff (drive around the barrier that's already down and more) all the time. Which is why my Thai son and his wife refuse to get into the vehicles and have banned their kids from getting into the vehicles of several family members.

 

Response to that is that my son is rude. The danger factor is ignored. 

 

One other old Thai dragon aunty does this at rail crossings, when confronted her response is - it's up to me, I don't allow anybody to tell me what to do, and she's serious.

 

 

Edited June 28, 2019 by scorecard

[Small Joke]

Maybe it's that feeling tall feeling in a 4x4, that makes Somchais in prick-ups, behave like pr..ks

[kcpattaya]

How stupid can you be?
Unless it was a premeditated suicide plan.

[potless]

7 minutes ago, scorecard said:

One other old Thai dragon aunty does this at rail crossings, when confronted her response is - it's up to me, I don't allow anybody to tell me what to do, and she's serious.

An old saying. You cant educate a Haddock.