Video: Collision as pick-up overturns at junction in Chantaburi

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

CCTV from a t-junction in the Laem Sing area of Chantaburi in Thailand's east showed a collision of a Toyota delivery pick-up and a Yaris. 

 

Natthaphon - a Nim Express delivery driver - said the Yaris pulled out on him and his brakes failed.

 

He said he feared for his life and that of his girlfriend as smoke came from the engine compartment. 

 

Seven-11 staffers and members of the public helped the victims out of the vehicles. 

 

The Yaris was driven by a middle aged woman who was taken to hospital. 

 

A child was seen being carried though this was not mentioned in the 77kaoded report. 

 

The media said that there were frequent accidents at this point and they pointed the finger of blame at inter province tourists who stayed at homestays and used restaurants in the area. 

 

Source: 77kaoded

 

 

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truck had right of way but most drivers ignore that rule anyway, woman was totally in the wrong, nothing new.

A junction like that should have traffic lights.....as if it would

make any difference.

regards Worgeordie

The Yaris driver was obviously in the wrong pulling out from the minor road to the major road at a T-Junction. 

However, how fast was the truck going? Perhaps the Yaris driver misjudged the speed of the on-coming truck, still the Yaris drivers fault but a speeding oncoming truck may definitely have been part of the root-cause.

 

Once again, poor road design is also a major factor - as someone has already mentioned, a junction such as this definitely requires traffic lights, especially in Thailand where vehicular-awareness often seems limited. 

At least not far for the cops. Crash in front of a police station

Wrong from the first look...

28 minutes ago, webfact said:

Natthaphon - a Nim Express delivery driver - said the Yaris pulled out on him and his brakes failed.

Sorry Natthapon, I don't believe you regarding the 'brake failure'.

And they will never learn or care to drive a proper turn.

Always cutting short and going diagonal.

Yaris 100% at fault, not able to estimate speed and distance of crossing traffic.

No idea why the delivery driver needed an excuse except that he might have anticipated the disaster to come and break (earlier)?

14 minutes ago, Vacuum said:

Sorry Natthapon, I don't believe you regarding the 'brake failure'.

Probably stamped on the wrong pedal

Very typical lady driver.

 

 

"The media said that there were frequent accidents at this point and they pointed the finger of blame at inter province tourists who stayed at homestays and used restaurants in the area."

 

Any decent traffic engineer would have sorted this out long ago, I was capable of doing that kind of thing 50 years ago.

7 minutes ago, cooked said:

 

"The media said that there were frequent accidents at this point and they pointed the finger of blame at inter province tourists who stayed at homestays and used restaurants in the area."

 

Any decent traffic engineer would have sorted this out long ago, I was capable of doing that kind of thing 50 years ago.

 

I imagine many Thai's are also capable of 'sorting' this junction out (and many others), the issue is perhaps one of funding - taxes misappropriated, so who pays for lights and re-engineering of accident black-spots??? - the issue remains that those high up enough in positions of decision making power, in this case to provide sufficient funds for a fix, don't care enough to make it happen. 

Agreed that was the cars driver's fault, but the pick up driver could possibly have avoided the collision had he steered to the left and gone behind her. He appears, instead to have steered right as he was in the middle of the road at the moment of collision.

 

He was, IMO lacking in that all important 'defensive driving skill' of anticipating the unexpected.

 

 

From Google Maps appears to be the intersection of 3149/3151 and the Yaris driver might have been expecting truck to turn onto road she was exiting.  Road curves making it even harder to judge if oncoming is exiting or through traffic.

1 hour ago, webfact said:

and they pointed the finger of blame at inter province tourists who stayed at homestays and used restaurants in the area

Ah, so if there are no real farang around they start blaming inter province Thai farang - pesky interlopers

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Natthaphon - a Nim Express delivery driver - said the Yaris pulled out on him and his brakes failed.

He was talking sense till he ruined it with the brake failure part.

1 hour ago, Samuel Smith said:

Probably stamped on the wrong pedal

The accelerator pedal.........????

Watch the vehicles behind; they all cut the corner off, not one turns correctly.   Poor road markings too; no stop line of give way line marked, so typical of so many junctions around the country.

 

I think the brake failure was the first thing that entered his empty head as there always has to be an excuse even when its not your fault when 'face' is more important than living !

2 minutes ago, trainman34014 said:

Watch the vehicles behind; they all cut the corner off, not one turns correctly. 

 

 

That's what happens when you take your driving test in a car park

2 minutes ago, Samuel Smith said:

That's what happens when you take your driving test in a car park

Agreed; not that the majority have ever taken a test anyway !

7 minutes ago, trainman34014 said:

Watch the vehicles behind; they all cut the corner off, not one turns correctly.

Especially the last one, with the man standing at the back.. ????

2 hours ago, Vacuum said:

Sorry Natthapon, I don't believe you regarding the 'brake failure'.

No brake failure as you wrote !

for the simple reason that the pickup driver did not use them; I think he tried to avoid the Yaris passing as far right as possible but given his speed, certainly excessive, he could not do anything; two vehicles good for local scrap

had the girlfriend in the car with him, might have been 'distracted'

 

42 minutes ago, trainman34014 said:

I think the brake failure was the first thing that entered his empty head as there always has to be an excuse even when its not your fault when 'face' is more important than living !

can you please repost this comment on all accident threads moving forward. this comment strikes at the very core of the issue here in regards to driving and accidents. 

bravo !

 

 

 

 

Just another Thai brain failure.

5 hours ago, Vacuum said:

Sorry Natthapon, I don't believe you regarding the 'brake failure'.

I think the "brake failure meant he didn't have time to step on them & off the gas pedal.

Thoses stinking brakes again.  I think Thailand has to start looking where they are getting their brake parts from  Seem to have a lot of failures causing death.

20 hours ago, webfact said:

Natthaphon - a Nim Express delivery driver - said the Yaris pulled out on him and his brakes failed.

It seems that the pick-up went at a very high speed, and as always the brakes don't work!

18 hours ago, trainman34014 said:

Watch the vehicles behind; they all cut the corner off, not one turns correctly.   Poor road markings too; no stop line of give way line marked, so typical of so many junctions around the country.

This is typical not only for the crossings but for all the curves, the Thai is able to cut the curve even going at a crawl!

Car was coming from 3151 it seems and if looking for oncoming traffic would have appeared to be turning left as all diverted to far left lane on 3149 until last 100-150 meters.  Can understand why so many accidents at this intersection.

so do you expect every car to pull out in front of you at every  junction you pass, what utter tosh, in that case you would be doing 20ks an hour, still in his defence he is an EXPRESS delivery driver, ????