Farmers told not to dry crops on roads following fatal road accident

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Farmers told not to dry crops on roads following fatal road accident

 

 

Rice farmers have been warned to stop drying their crops on roads or face legal action.

 

The instruction was issued today by the Nakhon Ratchasima provincial justice officer after a fatal road accident on November 10 th on a highway in Tambon Makha, Non Soong district.

 

Two pickup trucks collided when the drivers tried to avoid driving over rice laid on the road surface to dry, resulting to two fatalities and two others being injuries.

 

Mr. Wichien Chaisorb, director of the Nakhon Ratchasima provincial justice office, paid a visit yesterday to the family of one of the dead victims, Mr. Nikhom Chitklang, to offer condolences and support.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/farmers-told-not-to-dry-crops-on-roads-following-fatal-road-accident/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2019-11-14

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[steve187]

so the carnage continues,

[pmarlin]

Simple solution, slow down and drive on the rice.

[lensta]

56 minutes ago, pmarlin said:

Simple solution, slow down and drive on the rice.

Agreed, if people started driving over the rice, they would stop putting it on the road. Telling the rice farmers to stop will do nothing to stop them

Edited November 14, 2019 by lensta

[AhFarangJa]

See this every year driving back to the village from Prasat. The road is narrow and has a lot of blind curves, yet still they just lay down the plastic and spread the rice. One time I drove round a corner to see the rice on the road. Drove over it, and the missus berated me !!!!

[kotsak]

When you think you've seen everything already in this madhouse.. ????

[seajae]

down south they put prawns/fish on the roads to dry, for some reason they think that has priority to cars and bikes using them

 

[KhunBENQ]

What would Isan in November be without rice on the road

But even here they will not place on any major/frequented roads.

[mfd101]

My b/f drove thru some rice yesterday here.

 

It completely covered the road & could not be avoided. He shouted first at the woman tending the rice. She was a village chief's wife so thought she was above mere convenience of others. So he shrugged his shoulders & drove on thru ...

[Krataiboy]

Makes me grateful I don't eat white rice.

[Samuel Smith]

I always assumed they wanted help producing rice flour...

[NE1]

Another case of being wise after the event. 

The police have been seeing this sort of thing all over the country since time began , but as usual , it takes a couple of deaths before anything is done.

Will not have been the first , and it will definitely not be the last.

Will the culprits be charged with causing death by illegally obstructing the highway ?

[tomazbodner]

27 minutes ago, mfd101 said:

My b/f drove thru some rice yesterday here.

 

It completely covered the road & could not be avoided. He shouted first at the woman tending the rice. She was a village chief's wife so thought she was above mere convenience of others. So he shrugged his shoulders & drove on thru ...

Too bad he wasn't driving a steamroller....

[richard_smith237]

Its the mentality - throughout most facets of society here...  

 

A general overwhelming degree of apathy and interest in doing things properly, the total disregard for the laws and the absolute absence of enforcement of the laws all adds up to the general fookwittery combined with a sense of entitlement we see today. 

 

Society would berate and criticise someone for driving over the rice, yet society doesn't seem to blame those in the wrong for being wrong. Well, until this article. 

 

But, the arrogance of those in positions of power is astounding, they think one announcement from the powerful position can implement change while completely missing the point that general shift in attitudes from the top right down to the bottom needs to be enforced for change and improvement to be successfully implemented - its difficult, nigh on impossible when no one cares.

Edited November 14, 2019 by richard_smith237

[WorriedNoodle]

They have the same issue in the Philippines since the road is the only dry place available to layout out the rice often. But over there it is common practice to drive over the rice and the farmers expect this.

[taichiplanet]

4 hours ago, pmarlin said:

Simple solution, slow down and drive on the rice.

Agree, i've had to do that a couple of times but usually they use big lumps of concrete or stone to hold down the plastic. Saw a small one lane concrete road the other day in a village near Sisaket where they had covered the whole road and chopped a tree down to block entrance from the main road!

Edited November 14, 2019 by taichiplanet

[GreasyFingers]

But you forget that they have been doing this from before you were born. Just that times have changed a little and you actually have cars on the road instead of old bikes and the farmers' tractors. The locals know it is there so the only problem is the visitors.

[rebo]

3 hours ago, NE1 said:

it takes a couple of deaths before anything is done.

Nothing is done!
Someone mumbled something but this doesn't mean anything is done.