Eight British tourists injured in Pattaya van crash

By THE NATION

 

 

Eight British nationals and the driver of the van they were travelling in were injured, three critically, in a road accident in Chonburi.

 

Banglamung Highway Police were called today (January 14) to investigate the accident on Motorway 7 Km118-119 inbound to Pattaya.

 

The police and rescue staff from Sawang Boriboon Foundation found a bronze Toyota van with Bangkok licence plate 36-0989 had crashed into a road island barricade. The front bumper of the vehicle was severely wrecked.

 

 

The driver, Thanakorn To-iam, 53, suffered injuries to his right leg and nose, while his eight British passengers sustained different levels of injuries, with three being in a critical condition. They were all rushed to Bangkok Pattaya Hospital.

 

Thanakorn told police he had picked up his passengers at Suvarnabhumi Airport and was heading to tourist attractions in Pattaya when the van's rear left tyre exploded on the motorway, causing him to lose control of the vehicle and crash into the barricade.

 

Police are investigating and examining evidence, including dash-cam footage and tyre tracks to find if the driver’s version of events is true.

 

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30380543

 

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5 minutes ago, webfact said:

bronze Toyota van

Doesn't look bronze to me ?  I know Thais have a strange idea about what bronze colour is.

 

6 minutes ago, webfact said:

licence plate 36-0989

Get your lucky lotto numbers here ^^^^^^...speedy recovery to those injured.

Pattaya = Foreigners= Mini Van = ZERO COMMON SENSE

speeding on bald tires.  Never a good idea

 

45 minutes ago, johng said:

53 minutes ago, webfact said:

bronze Toyota van

Doesn't look bronze to me ?  I know Thais have a strange idea about what bronze colour is.

A look at the colour of the passengers pants would probably show them. Careering out of control at speed has to elicit some sort of response after all.

 

Probably no safety belts plus driving too fast, straight to Bangkok Pattaya where the hospital can make max profit

don't get in the death traps, ever

If those farangs did not enter the minivan, the accident would not have happened. So they have to be fined and held responsible for the damage.

Would it be too terribly naive to remotely wonder if the van has any type of collision hospitalization insurance?

Damage to the vehicle doesn't look that bad.  I'm thinking no seat belts. 

 

Edited January 14, 20206 yr by Leaver

Hopeful there are no horizontal departures to further damage TAT's tattered reputation ????

was the driver playing candycrush on his phone? 

29 minutes ago, Tracechain said:

Would it be too terribly naive to remotely wonder if the van has any type of collision hospitalization insurance?

Of course....

It's amazing how people will spend 5-10k on a night out but penny pinch on transportation.

I haven't been on one of those death buses for years 

8 minutes ago, Liverpoolfan said:

was the driver playing candycrush on his phone? 

Nah,  he was picking his nose with his left hand , squeezing a spot with his right, whilst swigging  lao khaow from a M150 bottle.

One trip only on one of these licenced coffins-on-wheels in 1996, CM to Fang, was enough - as Sticky Wicket says, to convince me "NEVER AGAIN" ! Never got there - he stopped at Mae Malai market for fuel and I and a Thai girl I was chatting with in cum-muang (northern Thai) jumped out. She yelled "pa-sart" - meaning nuts or crazy, to the driver.

(At least four near-misses in the last twenty kms.) Like S. Wicket (?), I used to jump out of perfectly sound aircraft whilst in the army and I consider that with all my training, it was far far safer than ever getting in a Thai-driven minivan. Ticket to a near-death-experience is more like it. At the time there was a bonus though - the young lady ended up staying with me for months ! 

3 hours ago, Mitkof Island said:

Pattaya = Foreigners= Mini Van = ZERO COMMON SENSE

Eeeh? What is equal to what? ????

 

3 hours ago, ChipButty said:

Welcome to Thailand get well soon

CHipbutty nailed it right....just another day in the thunderdome...sadly!  Wish it were not that way.

13 minutes ago, mike787 said:

CHipbutty nailed it right....just another day in the thunderdome...sadly!  Wish it were not that way.

Thailand is all about maximum income, with minimum expense, which makes safety non existent. 

 

The rich get richer on the back of 300 baht a day Thai labor, who in most cases, are untrained and / or inexperienced. 

 

It's a dangerous mixture, with many tourists paying the ultimate price over the years. 

Some people are freeclimbers, others do skydiving to get their kick but true heroes book a trip on a thai-driven minivan.

5 hours ago, Aussiepeter said:

One trip only on one of these licenced coffins-on-wheels in 1996, CM to Fang, was enough - as Sticky Wicket says, to convince me "NEVER AGAIN" !

 

I took 2 trip on a public van route.  The first one was so bad I thought it had to be a fluke.  The second one was even worse.  I never took a public (with a route) van again. 

 

But I did often hire private vans after getting driver references from friends.  Some of the drivers are real good.  But I'd never choose one at random.  And the pretty girls always sat up front to keep the driver awake...

 

People never learn, you don't get into one of these vans in Thailand they are death traps.

1 hour ago, Thechook said:

People never learn, you don't get into one of these vans in Thailand they are death traps.

And how many tourists are aware of this fact?

Dramatic video shows high speed impact, eight British tourists injured on their way to Pattaya – VIDEO

ByThe Thaiger

 

 

Dramatic highway CCTV has now been released of the crash of the passenger van, injuring eight British tourists travelling from Suvarnabhumi Airport to Pattaya.

 

Three were seriously injured in the high speed crash which scattered contents of the van over the road and grassed verge between the two sides of the motorway.

 

Eight British tourists are in hospital after their passenger van crashed into the median strip metal railing on the Bangkok-Chon Buri motorway.

 

The incident occurred about 10:30am on the Pattaya southbound side of the road. 53 year old Thanakorn To-iam, the driver of the van, told police he picked up the passengers at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok and was driving them to Pattaya when the van’s left rear tyre burst, causing it to swerve and hit the railing of the road’s centre median strip.

 

All eight of the tourists received first aid at the scene before being taken to Bangkok Pattaya Hospital.

 

 

 

Source: https://thethaiger.com/hot-news/transport/dramatic-video-shows-high-speed-impact-eight-british-tourists-injured-on-their-way-to-pattaya-video

 

 

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10 hours ago, Sticky Wicket said:

Nah,  he was picking his nose with his left hand , squeezing a spot with his right, whilst swigging  lao khaow from a M150 bottle.

A three handed driver, there's something you don't see every day. 

Too fast to controll a rear tyre blowout, takes a lot of lack of driving skill for sure, front end blow out at that speed Yeah difficult. but back end? sleeping more likely the cause.

 

Crikey, 3 or 4 passengers thrown out onto the road, looks like the side door

must have opened and closed on impact. Edit, it looks like they came out 

of the back with the luggage.

 

The way the van lost control, it does seem like a blowout occured, it didn't

look like it was going crazy fast, although the bends on those motorways can catch 

you out.

Edited January 14, 20206 yr by shy coconut

That driver had no idea how to control a skid, he'd be hopeless on snow or ice, if he'd turned into the skid he could probably have retained control.....it's a training thing..

8 brits on board..... was the van overloaded which caused the blowout ?