Carnage on the Thai roads: Two dead in head on smash with truck trailer in Lopburi

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Carnage on the Thai roads: Two dead in head on smash with truck trailer in Lopburi

 

Thai Caption: He failed to overtake in time

 

Two men in a convoy were killed when trying to overtake on a two lane road in Lopburi yesterday. 

 

Several pick-ups adapted with high supports to carry straw were driving along Route 4, the Phraphuttabaht to Khao Soong Road. 

 

An Isuzu failed to overtake in time and was hit head on by a truck trailer that ended up in a corn field. 

 

Ruam Katanyu Rescue foundation cut out the two victims in the pick-up. Passenger Sornpetch Jitnarong, 44, from Saraburi was dead at the scene. 

 

Driver Chaiyaporn Khorlekklang, 20, also from Saraburi, was pronounced dead in hospital. 

 

Ranee Thaweesak, the wife of the trucker was injured and taken to hospital.

 

Truck driver Narong Khunpanya said he was on his way to Phraphuttabaht when he saw the convoy of pick ups approach. He said he had no chance to avoid one that was trying to overtake. 

 

He was taken in by police for further questioning. 

 

Source: Daily News

 

 

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[Dmaxdan]

I've noticed this before with convoys. The lead vehicle goes and the rest blindly follow no matter whether it is safe to do so or not. 

[canopus1969]

2 less morons to contend with on the roads

[Phuketshrew]

Remember this?

 

 

[Tropposurfer]

I’m late I’m late sad the mad hatter.

[Thailand Noobie]

3 hours ago, Dmaxdan said:

I've noticed this before with convoys. The lead vehicle goes and the rest blindly follow no matter whether it is safe to do so or not. 

That's so true, I've seen many times while driving around Thai roads. And cars misses others by meter or two. 

[RichardColeman]

I bet i know which vehicle had the driver with the amulet !

[geoffbezoz]

The vehicles were adapted to carry straw, their heads contained the same

[sammieuk1]

At least no corpse's was dragged to the market after any of the crash participants failed to deploy the big pedal before the little one???? 

[richard_smith237]

The lack of capacity for self preservation exampled in Thailand never ceases to amaze me and I've been here over 20 years. 

 

I'm still trying to work out if its laziness, stupidity or something else for I know scores of Thai's who are highly intelligent and most defiantely not lazy yet in aggregate... But what is it in Thailand that causes a significant proportion of the population to act with galactically astonishing degrees of absolute and total fuckwittery ?????

[NCC1701A]

 

[hotchilli]

41 minutes ago, geoffbezoz said:

The vehicles were adapted to carry straw, their heads contained the same

Straw is useful.. I beg to differ, nothing useful in most Thai drivers heads.

[Bangkok Barry]

50 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

The lack of capacity for self preservation exampled in Thailand never ceases to amaze me and I've been here over 20 years. 

 

I'm still trying to work out if its laziness, stupidity or something else for I know scores of Thai's who are highly intelligent and most defiantely not lazy yet in aggregate... But what is it in Thailand that causes a significant proportion of the population to act with galactically astonishing degrees of absolute and total fuckwittery ?????

 

It's beyond understanding. I'm scared every time I go out and just live in hope that I'm not a victim of these idiots. Thai roads are, by and large, excellent and mostly only have light traffic. They should be a dream to drive on, but they are ruined by Thais who 1 - have only a very rudimentary idea how to drive, 2 - have no common sense and 3 - seem to have no concept of doing A might result in B. And that makes Thai roads toxic.

[rumbo1]

Lack of highway police control , when lorries buses learn they cant make a convoy in the outside lane (overtaking lane only , not fast lane) traffic will flow a lot better and reduce the risk of crazy overtake/undertake scenario

[wisperone]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

Ruam Katanyu Rescue foundation cut out the two victims in the pick-up. Passenger Sornpetch Jitnarong, 44, from Saraburi was dead at the scene. 

 

Driver Chaiyaporn Khorlekklang, 20, also from Saraburi, was pronounced dead in hospital. 

So only one traffic fatality statistically reported.

[Almer]

15 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

The lack of capacity for self preservation exampled in Thailand never ceases to amaze me and I've been here over 20 years. 

 

I'm still trying to work out if its laziness, stupidity or something else for I know scores of Thai's who are highly intelligent and most defiantely not lazy yet in aggregate... But what is it in Thailand that causes a significant proportion of the population to act with galactically astonishing degrees of absolute and total fuckwittery ?????

Its something else, but what one may ask, i have a good thai neighbour sensible family man with grandchildren and good job, but,  when he gets behind the wheel there appears to be a disconnection with his common sense mode.

He can follow a car for 5 minutes with ample overtaking opportunities but know he will wait until a car comes  in the opposite direction and and proceed to and succeed in putting you in cheek tightening mode as he carries out his kamikaze type move, after 30 seconds at a junction with 20 cars all patiently waiting he decides its his turn to go, so he moves out of the Q slowly travels  in the opposite lane dodging on coming traffic and moves to the front but in the wrong lane and nobody takes any notice or chastises him. 

So i ask all on this forum, why when a thai gets behind a wheel do they act this way ?

[OOTAI]

On ‎8‎/‎1‎/‎2019 at 10:29 AM, Dmaxdan said:

I've noticed this before with convoys. The lead vehicle goes and the rest blindly follow no matter whether it is safe to do so or not. 

Maybe its me but I don't understand the relevance of this statement.

My interpretation of the OP was that there was a "convoy" of pickups which had been adapted to carry straw being overtaken by an Isuzu, not that the overtaking vehicle was part of the convoy. 

I have the belief that the "convoy" was going slowly as they were probably loaded, and we all know how Thai's overload, the Isuzu comes up from behind and can't see past the last vehicle in the convoy so proceeds to overtake what he thinks is one vehicle.

As he gets out in the overtaking lane he has a "ah shit" moment as he sees the truck coming, but like a good fellow he doesn't brake and take evasive action he speeds up to keep overtaking expecting the truck to some how get out of his way.

I have seen this scenario and the vehicle being overtaking shifts left as does the truck coming the other way and the overtaking vehicle slide straight through the middle of them, no problem because they are good drivers.

[moe666]

On 8/1/2019 at 10:52 AM, Phuketshrew said:

Remember this?

 

 

Filmed in Northern New Mexico 1970 something, never saw it and I am from New Mexico

[kickstart]

This road is near me ,I know it well ,a bad road not many over taking places ,usually thing ,thinking they could make it ,and they could not, wonder if they had been drinking .

Lots of temples to take the body's to in this area, spoilt for choices.