A quick swerve and you’re in a deep rut

[webfact]

A quick swerve and you’re in a deep rut

By THE NATION

 

 

A taxi, swerving to avoid a log in the middle of Chaengwattana Road, landed in a deep ditch filled with iron spikes on the morning of Thursday (June 25). Both the passenger and driver escaped with no injuries.

 

Cabbie Kanong Promwat told police that he had picked up a passenger at the Bangkok Bus Terminal and her destination was Chaengwattana Soi 14.

 

He recounted that while driving he saw a large log on the street ahead, but lost control of the car as he tried to swerve to the right and ran into the barrier and landed in the ditch.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30390294

 

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[RichardColeman]

8 minutes ago, webfact said:

Both the passenger and driver escaped with no injuries.

Looking at the photo, I'd suggest doing the next lottery

[monsieurhappy]

I suppose the driver did the correct thing when he first noticed the log in the road:-

"Foot on gas and turn on the headlights!!"

Always works when approaching danger!!

[Venom]

TIT

[Foghorn]

Farang brake  , Thais swerve,   Not same farang country

[Burma Bill]

Was he attempting "pile driving"??

[hotchilli]

8 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Looking at the photo, I'd suggest doing the next lottery

Looking at the photo I'd suggest taking a bus !

[digger70]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

A quick swerve and you’re in a deep rut

It would've been to much to have asked the driver to Brake and slow down. 

If there's a Log /something big on the road I would say that one has time to slow down .

Unless the driver was going way to fast /doing something else than concentrating on his driving . 

[tifino]

it's a bit equivalent to encountering a fat black wombat on the road.

The snap decision, is a choice between:

 - swerving and losing all control

 - accept losing your sump and a wheel (at least they can be replaced) 

[PETERTHEEATER]

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

Looking at the photo I'd suggest taking a bus !

But first change your boxers.

[LarryLEB]

The photo doesn't show the car's license plate.  How the *@!&*# am I supposed to buy my lottery tickets?

Edited June 26, 2020 by LarryLEB

[talahtnut]

Cheap faulty Amulet done it.

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, tifino said:

it's a bit equivalent to encountering a fat black wombat on the road.

The snap decision, is a choice between:

 - swerving and losing all control

 - accept losing your sump and a wheel (at least they can be replaced) 

I remember years ago when I was a teenager driving to work at dawn one autumn day, a quiet back country road, not much traffic about.
I was following a car doing about 50 mph for about 20 minutes when all of a sudden it braked, swerved, mounted the grass verge, went through the hedge turned on it's side and skidded to a halt in the field.

I pulled over, got out and went over, the female driver was getting out of the now missing front windscreen.
Asking if she was alright she said yes, but looked a bit pale around the gills, I sat her down in my car and poured her a cup of tea from my flask, giving her a few minutes to recover I asked why she braked and swerved so violently as I didn't see anything, she said there was a pigeon in the road.

Looking at her car I asked her if she thought it was a good decision to save the pigeon, considering she could be dead in the car.

She smiled a little and said she wasn't really thinking when she did what she did.

 

But it did teach me a lesson, I've racked up a few road kills in my time, but I was never one of them !

 

[tifino]

same scenario... just Insert appropriate animal:

 

late '82 doing 140+kmh in an LT Celica fastback, along the Kakadu Highway... a phrk'n bluddy great feral boar came out of the blackfella bushes, and making straight for the LT!

Sun was also in me face; but somehow, dunno how - I managed to shudder to a straight line Halt.

Outcome

 - one scared off pig disappeared into the scrub

 - we choked in the smoke of burning rubber 

 

About a year later, we were again returning to Darwin - when a bluddy great kangaroo bounded out of the scrub. After a great scene of an american movie of brakes screaching in the dust of a dirt road

 - I had just slowed enough to only get a small dent in the Sigma bumper.

 - kangaroo shook its head, and did a skippy off...  

 

 

bottom line though, was at no time swerve to miss the target

 

 

[rickudon]

Also had a few animal encounters on a bus in the Northern territories. One trip to Alice Springs it clocked up one Kangaroo (cracked windscreen), one stone curlew that hit the destination sign/air vent above the windscreen (ever wondered what a mixture of dust, feathers and blood smells like?) and finally a cow which bounced off the bull bars but fell into the side of the bus and ripped open the luggage compartment. Taken out of service after that for repair. Only 7 passengers!