"Big Biker" decapitated on road trip with friends in Lampang

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"Big Biker" decapitated on road trip with friends in Lampang

 

Thai caption: Decapitation on Big Bike

Picture: Sanook

 

The gruesome reality of what can happen in motorcycle accidents was explained in full gory detail on the Sanook news site. 

 

Locals, police and rescue services were confronted with a horrific sight after a biker on a Kawasaki Z650 collided with a metal lamp post in the middle of a downward hill section on the Lampang to Chiang Mai Superhighway. 

 

The biker's head - now out of its helmet - was on one side of the road, his body was on the other. 

 

He was named as 28 year old Tossawat from Chanthaburi. He was the last in a convoy of three or four big bikes heading to Chiang Mai when he lost control on the Doi Khun Tan hill KM market 414. 

 

His friends informed his relatives of the tragedy yesterday that happened around 1.30 pm. 

 

Source: Sanook

 

 

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[RotBenz8888]

Horrific, however it won't scare the daredevil Thais.

[moe666]

Travelled that road many times he and friends must have been traveling very fast to lose control. It is a road with many curves but the road is wide and well maintained but the rider has to maintain concentration. My best wishes to the family on the loss of their loved one

[Pravda]

Thais must have a special virus that makes them think they are invincible. 

[Dmaxdan]

17 minutes ago, Pravda said:

Thais must have a special virus that makes them think they are invincible. 

It does appear that a lot of them do believe that road accidents only ever happen to other people.

The "well, whats the problem? I haven't had an accident so far" mentality probably contributes to many a Thai road user's downfall. 

[Rimmer]

Troll post removed

[GeorgeCross]

unfortunate name 

 

RIP

 

 

[taotoo]

Coming all the way from bangkok, it's late, you're tired, you want to get home quickly, and just as you get to the steep and twisty bit and you need to slow down and take care you can lose your head.

[I wonder]

2 hours ago, Pravda said:

Thais must have a special virus that makes them think they are invincible. 

Testosterone virus

 

2 hours ago, Pravda said:

Thais must have a special virus that makes them think they are invincible. 

 

[I wonder]

1 hour ago, GeorgeCross said:

unfortunate name 

 

RIP

 

 

Caught that one ????

[Isaanbiker]

I saw that on the news this morning. They showed his helmet, totally intact. With the rider's head inside. Scary. RIP> 

[PatOngo]

3 hours ago, Pravda said:

Thais must have a special virus that makes them think they are invincible. 

Yes, it's called arrogance!

[smew]

Single vehicle accident .. simply inexperience..RIP  

[Kerryd]

Road through there (going the other way) last December in a group of 11. Lots of maniacs passed us, usually on crotch rockets, zipping through traffic like it was standing still.

The highway where this would have been (near marker 494 according to the Sanook article, not 414 as noted in the OP) is divided with at least a concrete barrier separating the Lampang/Chiang Mai lanes.
2(+) lanes each way, pretty well marked and maintained. Not really steep at that area either.

The Sanook article notes the investigators think the bike hit the concrete barricade first. Bolted on top of those (in many places) are the metal signs noting which direction the next curve is (or other markers). 

Travelling at the speeds those guys (the ones I've seen at least) like to travel at, all it takes is one little slip up and it's game over. Misjudge a curve, go to pass a car/truck only to see another one ahead of you in the other lane, debris on the road.
 

I had a couple of "heart stoppers" on that trip, where you are cruising along through a curve and suddenly feel your front tire slide and your bike lean over for a split second before it gets traction again and you straighten out. It feels like it takes a couple of seconds more before your heart starts beating again.
 

Couple of curves I went through, not going very fast, it was like the bike wouldn't lean for some reason and kept going straight to the point I had to hit the brakes and twist the handlebars to get it to turn. Not sure <deleted> that was about as they weren't particularly sharp or steep curves.

We'll never know how it happened for sure but you can bet speed had a lot (or everything) to do with it.

[shady86]

Small brains riding big bikes. Not a good combination.

[JAFO]

Unfortunate motorcycle accident. They do happen and usually at speed which causes death most of the time. 28 is too young to die. 

 

 

[SiSePuede419]

In America, you are 10x more likely to die in a motorcycle accident than a car.

 

Face it, you are safer in any rice rocket, like a Suzuki Swift, Toyota Yaris or even a Chinese "British" car like a MG than any motorcycle, regardless of CC displacement. 

 

Cheers. ????

[canthai55]

That road in my back yard. Know it well.

Not unheard of to find a stretch of sand from under the concrete centre barriers washed across the road.

Sand on the road has many times caught me out. That's why they do not put buttons on motorcycle seats

[eisfeld]

1 hour ago, Kerryd said:

kept going straight to the point I had to hit the brakes and twist the handlebars to get it to turn

Normally hitting the brakes will straighten up the bike and not help it lean/turn. In which direction did you twist the bars and where did you try to turn?

[xylophone]

7 hours ago, Pravda said:

Thais must have a special virus that makes them think they are invincible. 

They lack a mental process which deals with "consequences" of doing something, whether right or wrong.

 

It is evident in just about all walks of life in Thailand and won't ever change until the early school days include something in the curriculum to teach it........."if you do this, then this can/will happen", and so on.

[Dap]

7 hours ago, RotBenz8888 said:

Horrific, however it won't scare the daredevil Thais.

Or any other "invincible" young person anywhere else on this planet.

Most young folk have a feeling they will live forever and a yearning to test that opinion on a regular basis.

I know how I was, so how about yourself? Well, Thais are no different.

Edited February 7, 2020 by Dap

[hotchilli]

2 hours ago, shady86 said:

Small brains riding big bikes. Not a good combination.

Small brain in/on anything with an engine is a bad combination.

[Aussiepeter]

I know that road too. In 1994 I had to do a visa run C Mai to Laos, to just stamp a Non-0 in and out. The Myanmar border was closed at that time as Thai and Burma were boxing. I left CM at 0900 on a TT500 Honda and nearly came to grief at very high speed near there, when I came around a bend and saw a thin rope, slowly moving across the highway. Problem was as I hit the corner very fast a buffalo came out connected to the rope and walked across the highway ! Seconds later a second one came out - I bisected them beautifully, crossing the rope between them at high speed. Shocked, I looked back to see an equally shocked owner of the 'kwais' (yes it is kwai, but there were two of 'em) on the end of the rope. But for luck or fate I would have impacted one of those animals at around 120kph. I was 42, you don't have to be young to do silly stupid stuff. I slowed right down and, took another 12 hours to get to Nongkai. Now I'm 68.

[Elfin]

6 hours ago, Isaanbiker said:

I saw that on the news this morning. They showed his helmet, totally intact. With the rider's head inside. Scary. RIP> 

Well, that's one way to get ahead.

[tifino]

just having a MacBeth flashback moment here...

 

 

[VocalNeal]

3 hours ago, eisfeld said:

Normally hitting the brakes will straighten up the bike and not help it lean/turn. In which direction did you twist the bars and where did you try to turn?

Maybe difficult in the "heat of the moment" but I hope the answer is focus on where you want to go and push on that bar. 

I could never get counter steering to work on my Vespa but...

[Rhys]

RIP...

[sammieuk1]

Only death seams to slow anyone down here now with the urgency to meet it an unstoppable priority????Rip

[Tops]

All Thai think they can ride their bikes like Freddy Spencer did in his best years. Only difference is that they don't have the brains of Freddy. I've seen monkeys riding bikes way better than the average Thai.

[mike787]

14 hours ago, RotBenz8888 said:

Horrific, however it won't scare the daredevil Thais.

Thais DO NOT care...road fatalities here will continue to be the deadliest in the world.