2 hurt minivan-pickup smashup near Pattaya

[webfact]

2 hurt minivan-pickup smashup near Pattaya

By Patcharapol Panrak

 

  

Two people were hurt when a minibus hit a pickup truck in Najomtien.

 

Two people were hurt when a minibus hit a pickup truck in Najomtien.

 

Pickup passenger Won Chairin, 50, suffered serious injuries and minivan driver Pongsatorn Tung, 26, hurt his hand in the May 6 wreck on Sukhumvit Road outside Eua Arthorn Village. Both were treated at Queen Sirikit Naval Medical Center.

The accident proved to be a he said-she said affair, with Pongsatorn claiming that Ladda Kangkan, the 42-year-old driver of a Nissan NV, cut him off, causing him to rear-end the car.

 

Full story: https://www.pattayamail.com/news/2-hurt-minivan-pickup-smashup-near-pattaya-298635

 

 

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[keith101]

Will the driver of the mini bus be charged with reckless driving causing injury and damage the same as the Belgian in a previous story or just get a fine and a wai as usual .

[johng]

16 minutes ago, webfact said:

The accident proved to be a he said-she said affair, with Pongsatorn claiming that Ladda Kangkan, the 42-year-old driver of a Nissan NV, cut him off, causing him to rear-end the car

 

Quite possibly the Nissan did the  cut into the U-turn lane in one foul swoop manoeuvrer  instead of merging

and at the same time  speeding minivan comes crashing through at light speed.

 

I saw the remains of the wreckage yesterday  big blue bucket and lots of tarpaulin  all in the central reservation and wondered what had happened.

[KhunBENQ]

I looked at the article to see the minivan.

Quite harmless damage to the front (have a look).

And if the passenger in the front seat(?) would have buckled up, his head would not have hit the windshield

 

Then thinking is this "pickup" made of plastic?

No, but not really what you call a pickup.

Nissan NV:

 

[KhunBENQ]

24 minutes ago, keith101 said:

Will the driver of the mini bus be charged with reckless driving causing injury

On which facts is your judgement based?

Just because it's a minivan.

[KhunBENQ]

24 minutes ago, johng said:

Quite possibly the Nissan did the  cut into the U-turn lane in one foul swoop manoeuvrer  instead of merging

and at the same time  speeding minivan comes crashing through at light speed.

Two idiots met? Most accidents take more than one silly driver.

[Grumpy one]

The bright side of this is, the pick up wont be back on the road in this millennium 

[Moonlover]

11 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said:

And if the driver would have buckled up his head would not have hit the windshield

He could come unharmed.

The Minivan driver hurt his hand and it certainly wasn't his head that hit the windshield on the extreme left hand side. Think again.

 

[KhunBENQ]

18 minutes ago, Moonlover said:

The Minivan driver hurt his hand and it certainly wasn't his head that hit the windshield on the extreme left hand side. Think again.

Done 18 minutes ago (after you quoted)

[PatOngo]

When they have an accident, they don't  muck around, do they! They're damn good!

 

[jacko45k]

2 hours ago, Grumpy one said:

The bright side of this is, the pick up wont be back on the road in this millennium 

But the minibus driver will be.... oh dear.

[HashBrownHarry]

2 hours ago, johng said:

 

Quite possibly the Nissan did the  cut into the U-turn lane in one foul swoop manoeuvrer  instead of merging

and at the same time  speeding minivan comes crashing through at light speed.

 

I saw the remains of the wreckage yesterday  big blue bucket and lots of tarpaulin  all in the central reservation and wondered what had happened.

Keeryd will be along shortly to give us a full break down of how the accident happened and what can ( or could ) be done to prevent is happening again ( maybe ).

 

He's like our very own CSI ( Thai style ).

 

Off to get some popcorn now...

[sammieuk1]

Post lockdown micro sleepers warming up ????

[johng]

5 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

But the minibus driver will be.... oh dear.

Yes unfortunately the minibus drivers  are still always "in a rush to meet their fathers"  constantly weaving and changing lanes,pay more attention to their phones  some are drunk   quite a few on amphetamines so they can drive all day and night  which eventually leads to a "microsleep" or "brake failure" and  crashes like the one above... one day the "government" might wake up (in a few hundred years)

and  implement   strict licensing ,testing of driver and vehicles conveying the public around along with a strict limit of total hours driven in a day speed limited  vehicles and tachographs  instead of making them fit a GPS !!!!!  and carry on as normal.

[Moonlover]

2 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

2 hours ago, keith101 said:

Will the driver of the mini bus be charged with reckless driving causing injury

 

2 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

On which facts is your judgement based?

Just because it's a minivan.

On the facts that we can see, being the damage to respective vehicles, the minibus driver's version is, by far the more plausible. The minibus is damaged on the right hand side and the pick up is heavily damaged on its left hand side. Both are inconsistent with the 'rear end shunt' version that the lady claimed it was.

[johng]

2 minutes ago, Moonlover said:

Both are inconsistent with the 'rear end shunt' version that the lady claimed it was.

Knowing very well the area where this happened  and knowing that the Nissan NV lived in the

"Eua Arthorn Village"   I'll speculate  that the NV driver came out of the village entrance onto the main Sukhumvit  road  wanting to make a U-turn which is just a couple of hundred meters further south,

lots of Thais for some reason will not "merge" into traffic  they wait till they think the coast is clear and then dash straight across/slightly diagonally many lanes to the far right lane at a slow speed..the far right lane is often occupied by speeding minibuses  there is a slight left hand curve in that part of the road and often  vehicles blocking the  left hand lane view (minibus drivers view) as they turn into the village..so  both drivers could have easily not seen each other till it was too late.

[Postmaster]

Yes KhunBENQ  you have a point but probably one careless manoevre by the pick up driver may have been averted if speed was a factor with the minibus. 

[Almer]

5 hours ago, Grumpy one said:

The bright side of this is, the pick up wont be back on the road in this millennium 

Ha ha dont bet on it

[hotchilli]

7 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

On which facts is your judgement based?

Just because it's a minivan.

History.

[mok199]

And yet it continues....

[baansgr]

9 hours ago, Grumpy one said:

The bright side of this is, the pick up wont be back on the road in this millennium 

The front half will

[mikebell]

In any accident involving a minibus driver, the odds are definitely high it was his fault. 

Speed kills but RTP have yet to realise this and put in place measures to curb these excesses.

[Rimmer]

Off topic post removed

[KhunBENQ]

15 hours ago, baansgr said:

The front half will

+1

Like this one. A nice three wheeler.

Drove around the village in 2017.

 

[johng]

4 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said:

A nice three wheeler.

Totally illegal  as it doesn't have a front wind shield ????