Video: Nutty driving as Thai "too lazy to go with the flow"

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Video: Nutty driving as Thai "too lazy to go with the flow"

 

Image: Daily News

 

A dash cam video shared to the popular "Hear" site on Facebook showed a Honda Jazz come out of a housing estate and go the wrong way down a road. 

 

The driver was apparently too lazy to go with the flow of traffic and was trying to get to a nearer U-turn. 

 

Daily News reported that it happened somewhere in Bangkok on Monday but they were not sure where.

 

It was widely commented upon online.

 

Daily News said that such traffic violation was subject to a 500 baht fine under Article 41 of the 1979 traffic law.

 

But if an accident had been caused the penalty was three months in jail or a fine between 2,000 baht and 10,000 baht. This is Article 43/8.

 

Daily News, that is trying to raise awareness about good driving skills, said that Thai drivers know that such poor driving is wrong and dangerous.....but still they do it. 

 

Source: Daily News

 

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[intherealworld]

Normal every day event in Thailand.

The Hub of selfish drivers. 

 

[petermik]

500 baht fine....ridiculous 5,000+ would be more of a deterrent

[shady86]

As usual in Thailand. I am the law!

[LazySlipper]

And if you give them and angry look... these entitled Fracks look at you with an angry puzzled face...and in some cases yell back at you. I would really love to see one of these guys back in my town in the West try to brush off anyone the way they do here....

Edited July 10, 2019 by LazySlipper
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[Rookiescot]

Although we all see this almost every day here I need to point out the person may have thought he was joining a normal road and not a dual carriageway. 

[Thakkar]

“Nutty driving” 

Or, as it is known here: “driving”

[colinneil]

Just another clown, get out of my way, i am more important than you.????

[Somtamnication]

Normal day on Thai roads. Next.....

[PatOngo]

12 minutes ago, Rookiescot said:

Although we all see this almost every day here I need to point out the person may have thought he was joining a normal road and not a dual carriageway. 

No! He was saving 0.2134 millilitres of fuel!

[Rookiescot]

Just now, PatOngo said:

No! He was saving 0.2134 millilitres of fuel!

I absolutely hear what you are saying. That was my initial thoughts when I watched the video. He was too lazy to go to a U turn further down the street.

But after a few seconds thought I realised they might just have made a mistake.

[BestB]

All this idiots in the flow simply do not understand that going in the opposite direction to save 5 mins is by far more logical ????

[grego49]

42 minutes ago, petermik said:

500 baht fine....ridiculous 5,000+ would be more of a deterrent

Agreed,but how many actually pay their fines,

[Bert Jones]

Just so you are aware...the solid white lines on the approach to traffic lights cannot be crossed...you cannot change lanes at this point - you can only change lanes within the broken white lines. I was nabbed for this in Phitsanulok...I refused to sign the document and I refused to pay any fine...I insisted that they let me off with a warning - to my surprise, they did!

[petemoss]

32 minutes ago, LazySlipper said:

And if you give them and angry look... these entitled Fracks look at you with an angry puzzled face...and in some cases yell back at you.

That's because they simply don't understand what your problem is. Did he hit you? Did he block your way? No, so what's your problem?

[NCC1701A]

Was there a passenger wai-ing everybody as they went past? that makes a difference.

[Skallywag]

16 minutes ago, petemoss said:

That's because they simply don't understand what your problem is. Did he hit you? Did he block your way? No, so what's your problem?

Exactly, same as motorbikes on sidewalks...They are careful and do not hit people  (OK there was that one guy who got hit coming out of a store - 55) .  

Reminds me of when I was a youngster, would drive my 1963 VW bug on the sidewalks in Phoenix, AZ at times to get around traffic jams.  We all have a little "rebel" in us.   

Drove cars and motorcycles for 45 years, let others drive now.  Not being in a hurry is one of the best thing about being retired

[seajae]

you see this every single day, riders and drivers go the wrong way on a street/road because they are too lazy to do the right thing, bugger the road rules they simply dont want to drive/ride further than they have too plus it saves them fuel, cars, bikes trucks all do it but again the police refuse to stop them or enforce the law even when we see deaths caused by doing it

Edited July 10, 2019 by seajae

[mallen]

It's not just Thai drivers that are selfish and ignorant. Some farangs are just as bad. Think they own the road. Like the a-hole that double parked on a busy road and opened his door wide open without looking to see if any bikes (like me) had to swerve into the outer lane ( straight into the path of other traffic) to stop from hitting him.
See lots of farangs driving bikes without helmets, wrong side of the road like in the video, running red lights, turning left against red lights etc. etc.
In fact I think the driving of some farangs is worse and more arrogant and selfish than locals because they should know better and respect their host countries road rules.

Edited July 10, 2019 by mallen
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[Thakkar]

When you’re coming out of a soi and the lady on the heads up display says, “turn left...doh! I meant YOUR left, dummy!”

[PETERTHEEATER]

It happened to me last year. A car driving against the traffic flow appeared in front of me expecting me to move over and let him proceed. I turned off my engine, set my hazard flashers ON and picked up a newspaper and began to read. He tried flashing his lights and sounding his horn but I ignored him. Eventually he gave up, reversed off me and undertook me by driving against the flow in the inside lane!

[connda]

5 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

But if an accident had been caused the penalty was three months in jail or a fine between 2,000 baht and 10,000 baht. This is Article 43/8.

Hence the law being devoid of teeth, and as such, why Thais drive the wrong way down roads and highways. 500 THB unless you kill someone, then 2 to 10k THB and a jail sentence that will deferred based on your social standing and wealth.   This is not an aberration - it is the norm.  Therefore this extremely dangerous type of driving continues unabated as Thailand maintains its status as the country with almost the highest number of road deaths per capita in the world.  No coincidence at all.

However, had the driver been a farang?  Omg - Thai social media outrage!!!  Nothing like a foreigner doing exactly like a Thai does to 'pull out all the stops' of the discordant xenophobic organ of Thai social shock and disgust.

[marquis22]

4 hours ago, Rookiescot said:

I absolutely hear what you are saying. That was my initial thoughts when I watched the video. He was too lazy to go to a U turn further down the street.

But after a few seconds thought I realised they might just have made a mistake.

I doubt very much that it was a mistake as surely he could see the dividing barrier and the cars travelling in the opposite direction beyond it when he stopped. Also coming out or a soi he was most likely a local and knew full well what he could get up to.

[connda]

5 hours ago, Rookiescot said:

Although we all see this almost every day here I need to point out the person may have thought he was joining a normal road and not a dual carriageway. 

I could set up a camera on Highway 11 at two place where vehicles routinely come to a U-turn and drive the wrong way down Highway 11 in order to get to side roads or residences. I see it so often that I'm pretty sure if I set up a camera I could video up to 10 or more an hour driving the wrong way on the highway. One of those U-turns is 100 meters from a cop station.  No enforcement - no one cares.

[connda]

5 hours ago, colinneil said:

Just another clown, get out of my way, i am more important than you.????

I keeps working until some liquored up Thai in a HiSo car traveling in the 'Fast-Lane' hits a moron like this head-on.  Then it's just another fatality statistic on The (Al)Most Dangerous Roads in the World.

[ocddave]

Normal everyday driving here, I can post "Nutty Driving" videos every day, there is no end to it, most Thai's shouldn't even be allowed to drive. I would guess if you gave an International Driving test to Thai's, that 90% would fail the test, Thai drives are completely out of control, and lack any type of training whatsoever.

Edited July 10, 2019 by ocddave

[Cake Monster]

6 hours ago, shady86 said:

As usual in Thailand. I am the law!

Thais have the attitude that Laws for for somebody else-not for me

[Almer]

7 hours ago, Rookiescot said:

Although we all see this almost every day here I need to point out the person may have thought he was joining a normal road and not a dual carriageway. 

Yep i would give him the benefit of the  doubt, "once" and the next time and there would be a next time, block him off and turn the engine off, some need to learn and as for thai respect in the road Lol

Edited July 10, 2019 by Almer
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[ThaiFelix]

7 hours ago, colinneil said:

Just another clown, get out of my way, i am more important than you.????

He/she will be on social media soon complaining they had to go that way because cars wouldn't get out of the way the correct direction lol!

[ujayujay]

Whats the Problem!? Its normal here in LOS.