Miracle escape! Thai driver stops for an early morning snooze - then this happens

[webfact]

Miracle escape! Thai driver stops for an early morning snooze - then this happens

 

Picture: Sanook

 

A Phichit man stopped for an early morning snooze after he had been visiting relatives in the Bang Rakam district of Phitsanulok in the north of Thailand. 

 

Sanook said that Santi, 29, was tired after a drinking session and decided to pull over five meters from a bridge. 

 

He was on his way home.

 

His four door Isuzu pick-up was slammed into by a 22 wheel truck trailer that propelled his vehicle onto the bridge and crushed it against the side of the bridge.

 

The incident happened on Route 117, the Phitsanulok to Nakhon Sawan Road, around 6.30 am yesterday.

 

Santi had to be cut out of the wreckage but only suffered a minor injury to his left leg and some whiplash.

 

Sanook called it miraculous. 

 

He was taken to Naraesuan University Hospital.

 

Bang Rakam police are investigating. 

 

Source: Sanook

 

 

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[PatOngo]

Please, what amulet was he wearing?

[VocalNeal]

Easier to pull off into a side road but...

[2 is 1]

Good not car where Thai going work!

[poohy]

12 minutes ago, webfact said:

Sanook said that Santi, 29, was tired after a drinking session and decided to pull over five meters from a bridge. 

so he was p****d and drove until a bridge and stopped

Somehow i cant find much sympathy for this guy just another drunk thankfully off the road for a bit

[bluesofa]

4 minutes ago, poohy said:

18 minutes ago, webfact said:

Sanook said that Santi, 29, was tired after a drinking session and decided to pull over five meters from a bridge. 

so he was p****d and drove until a bridge and stopped

Somehow i cant find much sympathy for this guy just another drunk thankfully off the road for a bit

Perhaps he'd only been drinking Red Bull. I see it's been linked to some accident reports recently.

[worgeordie]

He actually said to the Police he had been in a drinking session !

bet he soon sobered up when the truck smashed into him.

regards Worgeordie

 

[bodga]

55 minutes ago, webfact said:

Sanook called it miraculous.

I  call it for what it is GROSS stupidity

[NanLaew]

Oh wow!... two 'lucky number' rego plates today!

 

Bonus!

NL

[ezzra]

1 hour ago, PatOngo said:

Please, what amulet was he wearing?

What i'd like to know is the state of underpants...

[bodga]

1 minute ago, ezzra said:

What i'd like to know is the state of underpants...

youd  have to extract them from his backside

[bluesofa]

8 minutes ago, ezzra said:

What i'd like to know is the state of underpants...

I'm sure there's not a stain on his character.

[steven100]

why the heck would you even consider stopping where he did .....  drive another kilometer until there is a clear spot well off the road or a side road to slip down. 

 

crazy guy ... 

[kotsak]

Amulet reveal..

 

 

[Pilotman]

53 minutes ago, steven100 said:

why the heck would you even consider stopping where he did .....  drive another kilometer until there is a clear spot well off the road or a side road to slip down. 

 

crazy guy ... 

not crazy so much, as <deleted> out of his head. 

[PETERTHEEATER]

5 hours ago, PatOngo said:

Please, what amulet was he wearing?

The Lao Kow issued by the holy spirit....

[marquis22]

6 hours ago, PatOngo said:

Please, what amulet was he wearing?

 

[steven100]

1 hour ago, marquis22 said:

 

he will never be unlucky .... he will win the lottery 20 times 

[richard_smith237]

What more can you say......  I refer to an old acronym I was taught when I first arrived.... T.I.T. !!!! 

 

This story has total and utter fv<kwittery written all over it !!!! 

 

- Drunk Guy decides to sleep it off (feel asleep and cam to a halt at the side of the rd?)

- or pull over to sleep it off in an extremely idiotic location

- Lorry driver can’t keep to his lane 

 

Again, yet another situation involving two halfwits. If just one of the parties involved had not been a complete and total halfwit no incident would have taken place at all !!!!

 

 

[Mick501]

Hopefully he learns from this and in future stops his car in the centre lane when he is drunk and in need of a snooze.  Geez, no common sense stopping in the break down lane.

[RocketDog]

7 hours ago, ezzra said:

What i'd like to know is the state of underpants...

Really? 

You really want to know this? 

Think of what you just said. 

????

[Gandtee]

8 hours ago, worgeordie said:

He actually said to the Police he had been in a drinking session !

bet he soon sobered up when the truck smashed into him.

regards Worgeordie

 

Will he be charged with being drunk in charge of a vehicle?

[stouricks]

And what was the truck driver doing, encroaching onto the hard shoulder. What if the pick-up had simply broken down, as it's driver possibly had. Who's fault then?

[GreasyFingers]

If he was off the left lane how does the truck hit him, or was the truck drunk too. If there is a bridge the road is probably straight.

[cardinalblue]

Poor place to park - karma 

 

I wonder if he had his parking lights on which I doubt....one of my pet gripes - the # of drivers here who drive with only their parking lights on during early evening or early mornings hours...
 

cultural habit over common sense 

[spiekerjozef]

11 hours ago, webfact said:

Santi, 29, was tired after a drinking session and decided to pull over five meters from a bridge.

So he drove for a while then decided he was too drunk to drive and had a snooze on the edge of a highway.

Why not stop at a petrol station? Snooze there.

[sammieuk1]

On the bright side at least he now knows the load limit of his four door Isuzu pick-up ????

[Pique Dard]

13 hours ago, webfact said:

Sanook said that Santi, 29, was tired after a drinking session

in the real world, Santi's driving license should have been confiscated on the spot before any investigation... he was drunk and had parked his vehicle near by a bridge, two dangerous misconducts, indeed!

[Damrongsak]

Two Isuzu trucks mating ...

[hotchilli]

21 hours ago, webfact said:

The incident happened on Route 117, the Phitsanulok to Nakhon Sawan Road, around 6.30 am yesterday.

So at 06:30 he has to pull over to get some sleep as he'd been on the booze all night long,

fit to drive... very doubtful !!!!