2 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

"This hat, this head, this hat on head"

Virtually no one wears a helmet in any village. I've never seen a policeman in my GF's village, so why would they? Zero enforcement.

20 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

How about idiots who try to drive while playing around with their smart phone?

 

We have to thank Steve Jobs for that.

3 hours ago, PatOngo said:

An exhaustive list no doubt! How innovative.

that would be EVERY driver and motor cyclist in my village. They all have a death wish once on the road.

6 hours ago, webfact said:

and grandads targeted in bid to reduce road accidents

In fact it doesn't concern me at all, I'm a great grandfather 

23 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Why?

The person who does not wear the helmet has the risk and maybe the injury or he dies. If I don't wear a helmet and I crash in your car you don't have to worry about my head.

Because supposedly this is the law when I rode in the states if I was in a state that didn't have a helmet law I wouldn't wear one in my home state of Georgia they had a helmet law and it was enforced if they're not going to enforce the law then they need to do away with it

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19 minutes ago, Thian said:

Because they have bad eyes, slow reaction, no driverslicense, far too large car, no hurry because it's nice in the aircon away from the grandkids.....and so on.

 

Yes get them of the roads please.

We make adjustments for our declining abilities, such as not driving at night and driving defensively.

I'll get off the road when I assess I feel unsafe on the roads. Right now, I'm more capable and drive more safely than 99% of Thai drivers, so I don't appreciate ignorant opinions.

6 minutes ago, spiekerjozef said:

We have to thank Steve Jobs for that.

No!

I am not a fan of that guy but he invented some great devices. And as far as I know he forced nobody to use them while driving.

Years ago people were not reading newspapers while driving their cars. Why not? Probably because at that time people were smart enough to understand that it's difficult to pay attention to both the newspaper and the traffic outside.

It seem in modern times many people are not so smart anymore. Maybe that's the reason that they have smart phones to compensate for their own stupidity.

5 hours ago, daveAustin said:

Well that's pretty much everyone lol

Not the young and unlicensed drivers.

 

1 hour ago, tinca tinca said:

when are THEY (the BIB) going to concentrate ON UNDERTAKING. IT IS ILLEGAL to undertake !!!

If there's a beat up black smoke belching pick up doing 40 in a 90 zone in the right lane on a devided highway I will pass him on the left

Being ex-Police, I smile at all these announcements , which highlight the fact thatit would appear the RTP know they are NOT doing a good job.  

Encouraging drivers / riders to obey the laws is a wonderful idea, that is if they did nopt follow the enforcers in their cavalier attitude to not only following the law themselves but also in enforcing it . Too often I see Thai RTP officers including those from the so-called Traffic Division breaking the law , on helmets, riding the wrong way etc. 

Law enforcement should be carried out 24/7/365 noit when they realise they do not and need to do something to stop the endemic corruption ones sees at almost every Road Check.

 

When was the last time a driver/rider without a licence , was fined and NOT allowed to carry on . to my knowledge EVERRR, hence the Police are CONDONING LAW BREAKING similarly with No Insurance etc.  ,  

9 minutes ago, Assurancetourix said:

In fact it doesn't concern me at all, I'm a great grandfather 

I think grandsons are far more dangerous.

31 minutes ago, PlastikbinLina said:

It all comes down to proper training. The culture of police traffic management never changes here. There is no mobile traffic policing such as what we have in Western countries e.g. active road traffic police motorcycle or car patrols. Where to start, that's the problem.

Yesterday in chinatown i saw 10 policemen with scooters under a bridge...they had arrested somchai and somying who didn't wear a helmet....all 10 of them were busy with that. Why don't they just drive around and fine everybody without using indicators, speeding, smoking vehicles and so on?

They are like little girls who always have to be together.

4 hours ago, RJRS1301 said:

Interesting that older drivers being targetted, I wonder what theThai stats show about accidents and older drivers.

Western stats show less accidents per capita on over 55 year old drivers until age 75.

 

Yes I thought that the majority of those killed and injured during MY were youngsters.

1 hour ago, Blot said:

Yesterday, I saw a police officer in full uniform being given a lift on a motorbike by a civilian who was not wearing a helmet.  Is that ridiculous or what ?

Yes, he should have his own motorbike...????

1 minute ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Years ago people were not reading newspapers while driving their cars.

 

I see there that you did not know the Italian motorways in the years 70/80;
the readers of newspapers did not drive cars but what one called at the time of the "millipede",. these 8-axle trailer trucks which often weighed more than 100 tonnes with engines rarely exceeding 250 hp .. with the particularity of having the steering wheel on the right while in Italy you drive on the right.
On the mountain highways, especially the one that goes from Bologna to Firenza, they rolled in first small, the door of the cabin opened thanks to their right foot and the newspaper unfolded in front of them ...

 

and once at the top of the pass, they descended in the same way, always on the first slow in order to use their brakes very little; so in complete safety, what the Thai truckers do not do and why they often find themselves at the ravine

2 hours ago, HOAX said:

Grandads slowing down even more? They already drive in walking speeds.

No I don't , I am 73 next month ,my TW says I drive too fast.  Saying that if we are out at night I have to drive,  if she needs the car I have to remove it from the car port and get it facing the right way .  Thais went from family buffalo to pick up in one generation .....................nod nod , say no more.

Another waste of time, all the government do is talk then do nothing just like the police who also do nothing! 

3 minutes ago, toofarnorth said:

No I don't , I am 73 next month ,my TW says I drive too fast.  Saying that if we are out at night I have to drive,  if she needs the car I have to remove it from the car port and get it facing the right way .  Thais went from family buffalo to pick up in one generation .....................nod nod , say no more.

That's what you all say because it looks fast to you, but in reality you are being overtaken by casually walking cats ????

5 minutes ago, toofarnorth said:

my TW says I drive too fast.

Same with me ;

On 4 lanes roads ,I drive always between 90 and 95 km/h so the maximum torque of my pickup and so I consume very little;
on long distance, when we descend on Pattaya or PKK I manage to do with my Isuzu pickup, between 6 and 6.5 liters per cent with a 3000cc engine and an automatic gearbox.
By cons when she is in the SUV of her daughter who receives by post an average of 2 to 3 speeding tikets per week, there, she says nothing.
Find the mistake ..

50 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Why?

The person who does not wear the helmet has the risk and maybe the injury or he dies. If I don't wear a helmet and I crash in your car you don't have to worry about my head.

+1

" lists of drivers who are accident risks in every village and subdistrict "

 

opens the path for eager local croonies to wilfully play with names (guys whom they - at the same time - don't like...)

... and as always, only BLA, BLA, BLA ...

1 hour ago, Blot said:

Yesterday, I saw a police officer in full uniform being given a lift on a motorbike by a civilian who was not wearing a helmet.  Is that ridiculous or what ?

So, when the officer got off, did he salute that superior?  Maybe it was his boss' wife or his Mia Noy?

57 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

If I don't wear a helmet and I crash in your car you don't have to worry about my head.

Certainly ;
your head, I don't care;
but we are in Thailand where the insurance system does not work at all like in Europe.
I don't know the USA so don't talk about it.

Here, even if you are stopped at a red light and the guy without a helmet throws himself on your vehicle, you will have very great difficulties not to take out some or several 1,000 baht banknotes from your pocket while you are there for nothing.

and don't let me come out, yes, but you're farang so you're at fault;
<deleted> all of that;

A few years ago, a few km from my home, a young man without a helmet and full of alcohol, quickly crossed a stop sign, at that moment a police vehicle arrived on the main track (the one that doesn’t has no stop); the youngster got under the police vehicle, he died instantly;
well the policeman who was driving his service vehicle was forced to take his wallet out of his pocket.
in fact it is the police station which has contributed.

5 hours ago, RJRS1301 said:

Interesting that older drivers being targetted, I wonder what theThai stats show about accidents and older drivers.

Western stats show less accidents per capita on over 55 year old drivers until age 75.

 

 

They are often the  divers who stagger along at 40 kph following the center white line (also often drunk).

I often wonder if they have aged vision issues and the white line is their only visual guide?

They are also most likely to not have a licence or one that was simply paid for in times  gone by.

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1 hour ago, toofarnorth said:

No I don't , I am 73 next month ,my TW says I drive too fast.  Saying that if we are out at night I have to drive,  if she needs the car I have to remove it from the car port and get it facing the right way .  Thais went from family buffalo to pick up in one generation .....................nod nod , say no more.

Very true!

39 minutes ago, Dumbastheycome said:

They are often the  divers who stagger along at 40 kph following the center white line (also often drunk).

I often wonder if they have aged vision issues and the white line is their only visual guide?

They are also most likely to not have a licence or one that was simply paid for in times  gone by.

Are you talking to me?

4 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Are you talking to me?

Lol.

6 hours ago, RJRS1301 said:

Interesting that older drivers being targetted, I wonder what theThai stats show about accidents and older drivers.

Western stats show less accidents per capita on over 55 year old drivers until age 75.

 

Thai stats have previously shown that young men on motorbikes are the most likely to die on Thai roads. So yeah.. they are completely missing the target as usual.. they are truly braindead these morons...

1 hour ago, Assurancetourix said:

Same with me ;

On 4 lanes roads ,I drive always between 90 and 95 km/h so the maximum torque of my pickup and so I consume very little;
on long distance, when we descend on Pattaya or PKK I manage to do with my Isuzu pickup, between 6 and 6.5 liters per cent with a 3000cc engine and an automatic gearbox.
By cons when she is in the SUV of her daughter who receives by post an average of 2 to 3 speeding tikets per week, there, she says nothing.
Find the mistake ..

I wonder how many speeding tickets I will receive from my recent hua hin / Chiang mai trip. Was going over speed limit almost entire trip (as was almost everyone else on the road)