Three family members dead as suspected microsleep strikes again

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Three family members dead as suspected microsleep strikes again

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

A microsleep - what the Thais call "lap nai" - has been blamed after a pick-up driven by a Satun father slammed into a central reservation tree on the Petchkasem highway in Thap Sakae district of Prajuab Khiri Khan on Sunday. 

 

Dead at the scene were a 50 year old mother and three year old boy who were in the cab of the crumpled pick-up. A 16 year old boy with the same surname was thrown from the back of the vehicle and died in Thap Sakae hospital. 

 

Injured inside the cab was a 54 year old man and an eight year old girl with the same surname as the others. 

 

A 32 year old man in the back with a different surname survived after being thrown clear. 

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

The accident happened at KM marker 332.7 outside Huay Yang Withaya school. 

 

Huay Yang police saw no signs of braking on the road and suspect that the driver fell asleep at the wheel. 

 

The family was on their way home to Satun in the far south after visiting Samut Sakhon. 

 

Source: 77kaoded

 

 

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[Matzzon]

Another sad story. How much does it take? There are multiple signs that tells people with normal intelligence, that it´s time to stop and take a break before a driver eventually falls into sleep.

[Redline]

I guess the brake failure excuse went out of style?

[Happy Grumpy]

If ever there was a country that needed self-driving vehicles. 

[RichardColeman]

Still, the tree looks ok

[30la]

It is time for you to find other excuses for a behavior that has nothing to do with driving a vehicle!
Many simply cannot drive !!!

[thequietman]

2 hours ago, legend49 said:

That is the ploblem , normal intelligence is yet to be found!

 

[tanner]

16 minutes ago, Redline said:

I guess the brake failure excuse went out of style?

Now Thailand is the hub of 'microsleep'. 

[colinneil]

The new in word for the new year.... Microsleep.

Last year brake failure was the in term, now microsleep.

[CharlieH]

More like micro ability to drive, coupled with micro tuition, micro requirements to obtain a licence. 

[bluesofa]

15 minutes ago, colinneil said:

The new in word for the new year.... Microsleep.

Last year brake failure was the in term, now microsleep.

Microsleep - for some reason I thought it was an alternative word for 'blinking'.

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, Matzzon said:

Another sad story. How much does it take? There are multiple signs that tells people with normal intelligence that it´s time to stop and take a break before a driver eventually falls into sleep.

There's the answer in your question.

[Peterphuket]

Yesterday I passing this accident but have to mention, how about the safety about this highways??

How do you get it, as government, in your crazy head to plant a double row of trees over a lenggth of many kilometers without guardrail.

 

Apart from the accident, is in my opinion, the government partly responsible.

[JHolmesJr]

I guess theres some upside to kids yelling ARE WE THERE YET every few minutes.

[fxe1200]

3 hours ago, colinneil said:

The new in word for the new year.... Microsleep.

Last year brake failure was the in term, now microsleep.

Most of the Thai drivers do not know about the switch, which lets either fresh air in from the outside or circulate the air in the passenger compartment. If they leave it on circulation, the amount oxygen in the car will dramatically decrease, which makes you tired and leads to disastrous accidents.

 

 

[mickymouse1]

Soon the " microsleep" WORLD TITLE will go to LOS, or LOmS

[Damrongsak]

 

[ubon farang]

And the fantastic law about riding in the back of pick-ups. Just another law swept under the carpet like the rest of them otherwise the cops might actually have to be cops and do their job

[Chazar]

12 hours ago, colinneil said:

The new in word for the new year.... Microsleep.

Last year brake failure was the in term, now microsleep.

Next year "microbraincell"

[Chazar]

6 hours ago, Damrongsak said:

 

what drivers  licence?

[Chazar]

one  less idiot  for  me  on  the  roads,  if  they  keep  going the  roads  will  be  so  nice  and  peaceful  to  drive  on,  how  proud  would you  feel  to  wipe  out  your  own family!!

[EVENKEEL]

Assume the passenger noticed driver nodding off could have spoken up, sad. I know when to pull off the road for a power nap, wonder if alcohol wasn't perhaps a small factor.

[Stargeezr]

I have been on lots of tours with my Thai family and the one thing that is constant. They all fall asleep except for the driver, not long after the trip is on the way. I am surprised that more accidents do not happen because, there is no one in the cab of the vehicle who will talk with the driver to keep them awake. Thailand, the wild,  wild  East., 

Geezer

[Damrongsak]

I have a bro-in-law who can fall asleep at the drop of the hat.  At party time at our house like Thanksgiving or Christmas, he can nap on the couch when there's a dozen or two people running around and yakking.  He generally drives OK, though he scared me recently driving on a twisty road that was wet and had absolutely no shoulder, no guard rails and 2-3 meter deep ditches on the side.  He slowed down a bit when I told him he could stop and let me off 50 km from home. 

[Matzzon]

1 hour ago, oby said:

because your country of superior intelligence no one has fallen asleep while driving

"More than 6,000 people die in drowsy driving-related crashes in the US each year, a recent study suggests. Millions of US drivers fall asleep at the wheel each month, and roughly 15 percent of all fatal crashes involve a drowsy driver,""

Yes, if you say so. Then I must be of a superior intelligence, coming from a country where only about 30 people per one million dies in road accidents every year. So, I guess I will stand by that it´s possible to feel if you are too tired to drive before you sleep.

Maybe not for you, but for all of the people like me and my fellow countrymen.

If we would say that about 15% of that involves a drowsy driver as the failing point. Hell yeah! That would make about 4,5 person per one million that dies related to this every year.

Hey man, come back and talk more when you lived in a country where the people really know how to drive and also know their limits before it´s too late.