Sleepy driver slams into Sattahip tree

 

SATTAHIP:--A sleepy driver is lucky to be alive after dozing off behind the wheel and slamming into a tree in Najomtien.

 

Eakapoj Wiboonsatapornchia said he was driving from Sattahip to Bangkok when he fell asleep on Sukhumvit. His car veered off the road and collided with a Burmese padauk tree opposite Ban Hinwong School and burst into flames.

 

Two fire trucks extinguished the fire and Eakapoj suffered only minor injuries.

 

See more: https://www.pattayamail.com/featured/sleepy-driver-slams-into-sattahip-tree-281643

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Are "micro sleeps" covered under Thai insurance? lol

WOW!  hope he is ok.  we should start a go fund. 

3 minutes ago, mike787 said:

WOW!  hope he is ok.  we should start a go fund. 

 

I'd contribute to one for the tree.

 

Just now, Crossy said:

 

I'd contribute to one for the tree.

 

Heck ya!!!!!!!  Good idea.....

3 hours ago, Rimmer said:

collided with a Burmese padauk tree

Obviously an illegal migrant tree was the cause of the accident.

14 minutes ago, Just1Voice said:

Are "micro sleeps" covered under Thai insurance? lol

Even they'd have no blinkered idea... 

5 hours ago, Rimmer said:

A sleepy driver is lucky to be alive after dozing off behind the wheel and slamming into a tree

If he's claiming it was a microsleep and the tree was damaged, I reckon it's pulp fiction.

of course the tree is "burmese" always gotta be the scapegoat 

didn't get far in his journey

3 minutes ago, steve187 said:

didn't get far in his journey

To nirvana?

Just now, bluesofa said:

To nirvana?

they are all trying to there first

Just another day in Paradise....

Amazing he hasnt blamed his GPS yet?

I'd like to know - if he actually had insurance - as to whether falling asleep at the wheel is covered ?

28 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

I'd like to know - if he actually had insurance - as to whether falling asleep at the wheel is covered ?

We read about these accidents all the time; drivers falling asleep at the wheel (six bottles of Tiger does that to me). There are often fatal consequences plus huge medical bills for the injured.  Surely Thai Insurance companies are not dumb enough to pay out in these circumstances.  Even brake failure (the most popular excuse) could be put down to negligence (lack of servicing) - do they pay out in these cases?

22 hours ago, Nakmuay887 said:

of course the tree is "burmese" always gotta be the scapegoat 

Let's hope the tree doesn't start any splinter groups against Thai drivers.

saw a ghost

Tree has been transfered to another branch to an inactive post ,Trunk and disorderly charges pending 

Narcolepsy is rampant here.