Truck dumps sand on the road - that means hospital for Bangkok motorcyclist

[webfact]

Truck dumps sand on the road - that means hospital for Bangkok motorcyclist

 

Picture: INN

 

A Bangkok motorcyclist had to be taken to hospital after sand from a truck coated the roadway leading up to the Sathupradit intersection in the Rama 3 area of the capital. 

 

This was all witnessed by a noodle vendor called Preeda who told INN how he heard a noise caused by the truck then saw a 25-30 year old male rider skid and smash into the back of a parked pick-up outside an air-con repair shop. 

 

Damage was caused to both vehicles and the rider was bloodied with injuries to his left hand and ribs.

 

Picture: INN

 

The truck driver, perhaps oblivious to what he had done, just drove off. 

 

Witnesses at the scene urged the authorities to stop trucks making a mess of the capital's roads and causing accidents like this. 

 

Source: INN

 

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[CelticBhoy]

Lot of sand there. A lot. Guess the motorcyclist is partially blind!  ????

[TKDfella]

Well, I don't know about sand but when I see big lorries rolling where I live I know it's time watch out. They overload with soil, concrete debris etc. As they rumble along the backstreets large lumps fall on to the road. The drivers know whats happening because on their journeys 'there and back' they'd see the mess that they leave behind. A month or two ago the electric meter reading motorcyclists was up a pole, literally, reading a meter and I waited at the gate for a bill. Lorries had being going to and fro all day with soil and the road was already a mess but another came along leaving a long trail of soil from the overload and the guy's m/c was covered in soil too. But no one does anything about it and the neighbours just go out and sweep the mess to the side at the end of the day.

[loong]

3 hours ago, CelticBhoy said:

Lot of sand there. A lot. Guess the motorcyclist is partially blind!  ????

From the report it seems that the accident immediately followed the truck dropping the sand so I am guessing that the bike was following the truck when it lost some of its load. The lack of tyre tracks in the sand appears to confirm this.

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

he truck driver, perhaps oblivious to what he had done, just drove off.

Normal... 

[ChrisY1]

He wouldn't have done much good in the Dakar!

[mok199]

The taxi scooter drama never ends

[inThailand]

He just dropping sand to cover up the last motorcycle accident blood stains? 

[Andrew234]

Just scream and shout at these <deleted> idiots. The Thais won't. They are just "mai pen rai".