Video: Red plate car escapes car park fall - thanks to Monk Koon, that's for sure

[webfact]

Video: Red plate car escapes car park fall - thanks to Monk Koon, that's for sure

 

Picture: Sanook

 

The mother of a woman who nearly fell four floors after backing her new car into a wall at a car park is sure her daughter has only one person to thank. 

 

Luang Phor Koon. 

 

The revered monk who was cremated earlier in the year protects the entire family, said mum. 

 

The driver told Channel 3 there was a more earthly reason that she backed into the wall yesterday at the food and drug administration car park in Nonthaburi. 

 

She mistook the accelerator for the brake on her red plate (new) Toyota HRV.

 

Sanook said insurance would take care of the damage.

 

But they added that it was a second such accident involving the food and drug administration car park - previously a vehicle plunged six floors injuring the occupant.

 

Police are investigating. Thaivisa suggests they might look at the strength of the restraining walls. 

 

Source: Sanook

 

 

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[tifino]

food and drug admin staff, must be on something!

[Just1Voice]

Yep! A dead monk saved her for sure. lol

[Happy Grumpy]

8 minutes ago, webfact said:

She mistook the accelerator for the brake

Get this cretin off the road before she kills people. 

[likerdup1]

Yea, just a suggestion. Perhaps the walls should be strong surrounding a high rise parking structure. LOL!

 

Cars do move and it's possible one of the cars could go the wrong direction in a high rise parking structure. LOL

 

The engineering skills in Thailand are a joke. In many cases contracts are given with payola under the table or the engineer is someones cousin fresh out of university on his first project ever. Buyer beware. This is Thailand. The amount of poor engineering put into infrastructure design is fully apparent the minute you walk out the hotel door.

[kotsak]

This is what happens when you use the left leg for brakes and the right one for throttle. ????

Edited November 29, 2019 by kotsak

[mercman24]

and she got a driving livence, mistook, the pedals <deleted>, got no driving skills what so ever. still as we farangs know the driving test here is a bloody joke with 100% pass rate. i went to the test centre 3 weeks ago, it was busy, so they missed the film out and the perception test, its all about the money, nothing to do with road safety, there were 8 brit teachers there, they could not believe it

[Vacuum]

46 minutes ago, webfact said:

She mistook the accelerator for the brake on her red plate (new) Toyota HRV.

Should be banned from driving!

[johng]

35 minutes ago, kotsak said:

This is what happens when you use the left leg for brakes and the right one for throttle. ????

first time I drove an auto car  I kept  pressing the brake with my left foot thinking it was the clutch..soon adopted the  right foot for  both pedals  method  and no problems after that.

[kotsak]

5 minutes ago, johng said:

first time I drove an auto car  I kept  pressing the brake with my left foot thinking it was the clutch..soon adopted the  right foot for  both pedals  method  and no problems after that.

Were you shifting gears as well? ????

[Orton Rd]

so the concrete barrier stopping the wheels had nothing to do with it then?

[rkidlad]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

The mother of a woman who nearly fell four floors after backing her new car into a wall at a car park is sure her daughter has only one person to thank

Well the mother certainly shouldn't be thanking herself. You raise people to believe in hocus-pocus nonsense, you do them a huge disservice. 

 

As per usual, they're focusing on how she survived as opposed to how she nearly killed herself. 

[richard_smith237]

Not so long ago there was another very similar 'incident' - the walls failed instantly, the design and construction make it pointless to construct walls to these car-parks, they just fall off he building.

 

In another 'incident' in Chiang Mai a couple of people were killed after being nudged into a Khlong, their went through a wall as if it was not there. 

 

Surely someone must also be held accountable for the awful standards of construction in these buildings which are in dire need of some form of strengthening for when and incident does happen. 

 

Additionally, the degree of fv<kwittery shown in this video highlights perfect how poor the standards of driving can be when a populace hits the road without any formal education - I wonder how many people are driving around using their left foot for the brake and right for the accelerator (in automatics) thinking that is the way they should be driving.  

[Creasy]

Surprised she didn't suffer from a micro sleep.

[Vacuum]

25 minutes ago, Orton Rd said:

so the concrete barrier stopping the wheels had nothing to do with it then?

Or the chassis of the car...

[holy cow cm]

2 hours ago, kotsak said:

This is what happens when you use the left leg for brakes and the right one for throttle. ????

That is exactly how I have driven for over 40 years doing over a million miles. It is technique. But you may be correct, for a Thai it is maybe not what is prescribed for how they should operate a vehicle. Scary. 

[wgdanson]

Where is the wall they are talking about ?

 

Sorry, now I see it on the video. Must have been giving it some welly to go over the concrete block thingy.

 

Second video confirms this, but it looks like there was no wall on that bit she went through.

Edited November 29, 2019 by wgdanson

[Denim]

Thais read these incidents all wrong.

 

Obviously , monk Moon was peeved at the family for some perceived sin ( usually not enough temple visits or donations ) and decided to give them a wake up call by causing the accident.

[KhunBENQ]

1 hour ago, richard_smith237 said:

Not so long ago there was another very similar 'incident'

More than one and not all with a lucky outcome.

 

Can someone explain where the obsession with reverse parking comes from?

Is there a rule/sign that I overlooked?

Why else would I do such a maneuver in an almost empty garage?

 

Edited November 29, 2019 by KhunBENQ

[overherebc]

1 hour ago, richard_smith237 said:

Not so long ago there was another very similar 'incident' - the walls failed instantly, the design and construction make it pointless to construct walls to these car-parks, they just fall off he building.

 

In another 'incident' in Chiang Mai a couple of people were killed after being nudged into a Khlong, their went through a wall as if it was not there. 

 

Surely someone must also be held accountable for the awful standards of construction in these buildings which are in dire need of some form of strengthening for when and incident does happen. 

 

Additionally, the degree of fv<kwittery shown in this video highlights perfect how poor the standards of driving can be when a populace hits the road without any formal education - I wonder how many people are driving around using their left foot for the brake and right for the accelerator (in automatics) thinking that is the way they should be driving.  

I read somewhere that lots of these side walls are really only sound barriers and aren't in fact built to withstand a hard collision. If you enlarge the photo it seems there is no re-bar connecting the panels to the floor, just a groove that may or may not have had grouting or cement between the panel and the concrete floor.

Edit.

Maybe in fact the groove caught something on the car floor and helped to stop it going further.

Edited November 29, 2019 by overherebc

[Happy Grumpy]

Giggles all round.

 

Then back onto the road again. Isn't life fun and funny. No one looses too much face.

 

Causing a 9 car pile-up next week, then wondering 'Oh, how did that happen?' 

[Enoon]

37 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said:

More than one and not all with a lucky outcome.

 

Can someone explain where the obsession with reverse parking comes from?

Is there a rule/sign that I overlooked?

Why else would I do such a maneuver in an almost empty garage?

 

 

Because it may very well not be empty when one returns to leave.

 

If not empty makes it easier to see and avoid other vehicles when leaving, as eyelines not so restricted (and over shoulder body contortion not required) from within the now enclosed, individual, parking space.

 

I also prefer to maneuver (arriving) with a hot, rather than a cold (leaving) engine.

 

With a cold engine I like to drive straight out and minimise the opportunities for stalling during maneuvers.

 

NB That's in the UK, 32 year old car, manual choke. Not drive Thailand.

 

 

 

 

Edited November 29, 2019 by Enoon

[tifino]

3 hours ago, Just1Voice said:

Yep! A dead monk saved her for sure. lol

he was lying....

 

 

 

 

 

 

lying down below, acting as a cushion

[CanterbrigianBangkoker]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Thaivisa suggests they might look at the strength of the restraining walls.

I suggest they might 'scrutinise the cognitive ability' of the people operating these vehicles. 2 tons of ambulatory metal in the wrong hands is a lethal weapon.

Edited November 29, 2019 by CanterbrigianBangkoker

[KhunBENQ]

43 minutes ago, Enoon said:

Because it may very well not be empty when one returns to leave.

Got it. A mate reminded me of the same.

Some of the parking decks are madly crowded in the afternoon.

Central in Udon is a nightmare. I avoid it and walk from the street.

Edited November 29, 2019 by KhunBENQ

[OnTheRun]

4 hours ago, likerdup1 said:

Yea, just a suggestion. Perhaps the walls should be strong surrounding a high rise parking structure. LOL!

 

Cars do move and it's possible one of the cars could go the wrong direction in a high rise parking structure. LOL

 

The engineering skills in Thailand are a joke. In many cases contracts are given with payola under the table or the engineer is someones cousin fresh out of university on his first project ever. Buyer beware. This is Thailand. The amount of poor engineering put into infrastructure design is fully apparent the minute you walk out the hotel door.

2 women were killed in I think Hat Yai last year in exactly the same circumstances.

[HTC]

Actually the dead monk's ghost tried to kill her, but failed.

 

Check out the structure of the car park walls ... no reinforcement wire by the looks of it.

[briansbiology]

perhaps its was the monk who made her hit the accelerator rather than the brake. just as likely. 

[wombat]

4 hours ago, mercman24 said:

 they could not believe it

why not?, its all normal to me....i am but a guest in this country.

[outsider]

4 hours ago, mercman24 said:

and she got a driving livence, mistook, the pedals <deleted>, got no driving skills what so ever. still as we farangs know the driving test here is a bloody joke with 100% pass rate. i went to the test centre 3 weeks ago, it was busy, so they missed the film out and the perception test, its all about the money, nothing to do with road safety, there were 8 brit teachers there, they could not believe it

 

We ASSUME she has a license... lol