17 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Once the clip of an official, flag-bearing government vehicle hitting and pushing a car off the road

Euphemism for Thailand's government 

3 hours ago, jimn said:

Just an idiotic driver not moving out of the way for an oncoming car within sirens blairing. Same type of attutude when an ambulance is approaching. The car was in the wrong no one else. A non storey

I see a driver sticking to the left lane, plenty if space in the right hand line for the 'emergency' convoy to pass. There is no need for the driver to pull over,  he did nothing wrong. It's the pr*cks in the convoy that can't seem to drive and are endangering the public.

17 hours ago, impulse said:

 

All over the world, VIPs and government officials get sanctioned police escorts to speed them along their way and provide security.

 

Whether it was justified in this case or not is a separate issue.  The issue I see is a vehicle not pulling over for an emergency vehicle with lights and sirens blaring away.  As we've all seen happening to ambulances and fire trucks.  For that, they'd have been pulled over and fined in most places around the world.

 

I remember when they installed a bus lane on the A40 (a main road from central London to Heathrow Airport.)

By doing so they removed one lane of what was/is a very busy road. The lane was to be only for use of buses, taxis and emergency vehicles, on pain of a fine if one entered, even briefly.

Everyone was in uproar because of the traffic jams it caused. Even more so when Labour's Prime Minister Tony Blair, his convoy, and his police escort used it to avoid said traffic jams to get to the airport. The man of the people flying past all the plebs sitting in their cars, while he swanned along his traffic free lane.

 

Once it hit the headlines in all the papers, the excuse came out: Security risk if he stayed in traffic..

Edited June 17, 20206 yr by phetphet

Just another day on the way to the office.

Normal every day driving on Thailand roads i have use to it 

 

7 hours ago, PatOngo said:

18 hours ago, impulse said:

Back home, the car doing the filming would have been pulled over and ticketed for failure to yield to an emergency vehicle.

 

Back home rules don't apply in Thailand!

Back-home-rules don't apply in any country except the one with those rules.

17 hours ago, Joinaman said:

why would they need to be so close to the car ?

It looked like the other lane was empty, so why not use that lane. 

An ambulance or fire engine, yes, move out of the way, police and other idiots can make their own way through 

In London UK, at least, which has similar convoys for any official public figures, but often with motorcycle outriders too, you have to get out of the way or even stop To let them pass and it’s not for the motorist to consider which convoy to stop for and which to obstruct.  You DO get punished for not pulling over.

ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzz...............

instead of filming it for their Facebook it would be better to give way for a motor arcade, as is normal everywhere around Planet Earth they are lucky not pulled of the road and getting a ticket. 

1 hour ago, herwin1234 said:

instead of filming it for their Facebook it would be better to give way for a motor arcade, as is normal everywhere around Planet Earth they are lucky not pulled of the road and getting a ticket. 

He stayed in the slow lane, should be enough for your average emergency vehicle or motorcade to pass in the other lane. If it was some sort of high risk transport they would have.. should have.. closed down the motorway or had police bikes signalling people to pull over. If there ain't any instructions to pull over or stop,  sticking to one lane and having a free lane for the transport is 100% by the book. The people filming did nothing wrong, both legally and morally. The people who operated those soreness however...

 

23 hours ago, impulse said:

 

All over the world, VIPs and government officials get sanctioned police escorts to speed them along their way and provide security.

 

Whether it was justified in this case or not is a separate issue.  The issue I see is a vehicle not pulling over for an emergency vehicle with lights and sirens blaring away.  As we've all seen happening to ambulances and fire trucks.  For that, they'd have been pulled over and fined in most places around the world.

 

The problem is that no one in this country really takes any notice of flashing lights and sirens because of 2 reasons:

 

1.  Anybody can buy red and blue flashing lights and use them.....all our school vans had them....and who is going to stop them?

 

2.  I have pulled over for flashing lights and sirens only to catch up with them 5 minutes later sitting outside a 7/11 drinking coffee or ice tea????

On 6/16/2020 at 8:00 PM, Mr Meeseeks said:

That is Thammanat's ministry...

!!

On 6/16/2020 at 9:11 PM, Joinaman said:

why would they need to be so close to the car ?

It looked like the other lane was empty, so why not use that lane. 

An ambulance or fire engine, yes, move out of the way, police and other idiots can make their own way through 

must say in France ..and believe me i know when anyone above a pen pusher in the government is in convoy low grade ministers inc the French cop bikes push you away into anywhere they want military police regime in France same as here  you would not even think about reporting this common practice  So what's  the issue here  politicians escort.flashing lights pull over 

On 6/16/2020 at 8:34 PM, Yorkshire Tea said:

BS!  These VIP convoys are a freaking menace & should be stopped!!!!

Correct. They break traffic laws that others are supposed to obey. Hypocrisy. 

It's easier just to move over, nevermind and save the hassles isn't it?

On 6/16/2020 at 8:10 PM, impulse said:

for failure to yield to an emergency vehicle.

 

 

whats  the  emergency?

I took my Thai wife to the UK and Buckingham palace (a few years ago) to see the changing of the guard.

And low and behold out drives the Queen on her way to some function (we were standing right on the barrier), escorted ONLY by 2 motorcycle cops in front.

No flashing lights. No sirens as they drove off down the main road......after waiting their turn to merge into the traffic.

My wife was (almost) speechless at this spectacle compared to "back home" here.

On 6/16/2020 at 8:18 PM, Reigntax said:

Hardly and emergencyy carrying ministers around.....unless, of course they were late for an appointment to receive some brown envelopes.

 

They could always borrow a timepiece from Prawit!!

Think he had a bad case of indigestion causing him to fill his pants with the same thing that comes out of this governments mouth...diarrhea..that was his emergency......or his Gik was waiting

Edited June 18, 20206 yr by ThailandRyan

8 minutes ago, orchidfan said:

I took my Thai wife to the UK and Buckingham palace (a few years ago) to see the changing of the guard.

And low and behold out drives the Queen on her way to some function (we were standing right on the barrier), escorted ONLY by 2 motorcycle cops in front.

No flashing lights. No sirens as they drove off down the main road......after waiting their turn to merge into the traffic.

My wife was (almost) speechless at this spectacle compared to "back home" here.

Pretty much the same with our king in the Netherlands, a light escort with motorcycles but nobody being run off the road etc.  So I find the escort as seen in the clip insane, and even more so that people think one ought to pull over or expect being pushed off the road...

Edited June 18, 20206 yr by Donutz

7 hours ago, orchidfan said:

I took my Thai wife to the UK and Buckingham palace (a few years ago) to see the changing of the guard.

And low and behold out drives the Queen on her way to some function (we were standing right on the barrier), escorted ONLY by 2 motorcycle cops in front.

No flashing lights. No sirens as they drove off down the main road......after waiting their turn to merge into the traffic.

My wife was (almost) speechless at this spectacle compared to "back home" here.

because were civilised

there is a big difference between an ambulance on an emergency , to a car full of idiots going somewhere for a free feed, make them walk that will fix it.