Lucky escape from "brake failure": Pick up driver was having his dinner

[webfact]

Lucky escape from "brake failure": Pick up driver was having his dinner

 

Thai caption: Pick-up destroyed

Picture: 77kaoded

 

Pictures published by 77kaoded showed the utter devastation wrought on a pick up that was parked in the downtown area of Sa Kaeo city last night. 

 

The driver had stopped for a bite to eat in a restaurant by a bank and 7-Eleven on the Suwansorn Road. 

 

His pick-up was crushed by an 18 wheel truck-trailer on its way after delivering a load of sugar cane to a factory. 

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

Police said the vehicle was traveling at high speed and suffered brake failure. 

 

Just ahead of the devastation was a mound of animal feed corn and another damaged 18 wheeler. 

 

No one was injured.

 

Muang district police are investigating. 

 

Source: 77kaoded

 

 

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[ThreeEyedRaven]

7 minutes ago, webfact said:

 

The driver had stopped for a bite to eat in a restaurant

Very fortunate he didn't decide to have a take away. Difficult to see anything surviving in that truck.

[Geoffggi]

I see we are back to the old faithful - Brake Failure.....LOL

[Pedrogaz]

I don't know what it is about sugar cane that makes the drivers so abysmal. They overload the trucks and crawl along, deliver their load then drive back like Lewis Hamilton. 

[RichardColeman]

Very apt sign on the truck 

[30la]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

 

His pick-up was crushed by an 18 wheel truck-trailer on its way after delivering a load of sugar cane to a factory. 

We live near a sugar factory and we see daily how fast these criminals go with prehistoric vehicles, many without lights, the tampered exausts in order to make as much noise as possible and, probably drugs or alkohol to cloud the senses.
Before something really terrible happens, remove these ANIMALS from the street !!!

[Surelynot]

Before something really terrible happens, remove these ANIMALS from the street !

 

Ain't never going to happen. Life is too cheap here and there is no mindset to tackle these problems.

[Adventra20]

Brake failure just a excuse. With that weight and at high speed no brakes on earth are going to pull that truck up in a hurry. Try brain fade, not brake fade!!

[brianthainess]

I would love to me the investigator of these failed brakes. Oh yeh a job only for Thais init.

[grumpy 4680]

The sign on the side of the truck says UP, he could not get any higher.

[neeray]

5 hours ago, grumpy 4680 said:

The sign on the side of the truck says UP, he could not get any higher.

That sign is short for “this side up”. 

[White Christmas13]

7 minutes ago, neeray said:

That sign is short for “this side up”. 

My guess was 7 up

[Damrongsak]

The truck driver was watching an episode of The Dukes of Hazard and got a little excited.

 

 

Or maybe he thought he could time travel into the past and get home before he even left that day.

 

 

 

Edited January 21, 2020 by Damrongsak

[Thechook]

The old break failure defence.  Not my fault

[unamazedloso]

brake failure my arss! just not possible. Complete brake failure or just a trailer, what? never an explination! Anyone investigate the brakes yet? We live about 3km from a sugar can factory and all these douche bags are yabba dabba doers, always drunk and drive like absolute idiots. Take up the whole road and block traffic like they are so dam important. Really miserable society these days. Im sure decades ago when i first came here life wasnt this crazy. More population, more greed, more drugs, more corruption, less tourists.....

[sammieuk1]

On the bright side of course that's the end of one pickup forever ????

[tinca tinca]

On 1/22/2020 at 6:57 AM, Thechook said:

The old break failure defence.  Not my fault

not much of a defence.....unless checks are carried out to SEE IF THE BRAKES really did fail.....AND WILL WE EVER GET TO KNOW......ANSWER IS A BIG no !!!