Man dies in high-speed crash into power pole

[webfact]

Man dies in high-speed crash into power pole

By Eakkapop Thongtub

 

The car was destroyed by the force of the impact. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET: A man died after his car slammed into a roadside power pole at high-speed on Thepkrasattri Rd, about 200 metres north of the Bang Khu intersection in Koh Kaew, just after midnight last night.

 

Lt Col Thada Sodarak of the Phuket City Police confirmed that police were called to the scene at about 12:10am.

 

Police together with Kusoldharm rescue workers arrived to find a white Phuket-registered Toyota Altis saloon destroyed by the force of the impact.

 

Full story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/man-dies-in-high-speed-crash-into-power-pole-77718.php

 

-- © Copyright Phuket News 2020-10-22

 

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[Surelynot]

That was a car?

[ezzra]

Looks like a train ran over him.. wow...

[Pottinger]

What is this fatal attraction between Thai drivers and concrete poles?

[steven100]

must have been travelling at extremely high speed to do that much damage on impact.  The car is completely unrecognizable 

[KhunBENQ]

12:10am. Time for the favorite pastime: "hit the pole".

No points to win though.

Sorry, I can't feel for those (drunken?) racers.

Good he didn't harm others.

Edited October 22, 2020 by KhunBENQ

[KhunBENQ]

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Edited October 22, 2020 by KhunBENQ

[KhunBENQ]

Where the heck is the "Edit" button gone?

Is it only me?

[Rimmer]

Just now, KhunBENQ said:

Where the heck is the "Edit" button gone?

Is it only me?

Top right three dots...

[Rimmer]

The text in the links says the speedo was stuck on 220kmh

[Surelynot]

11 minutes ago, Pottinger said:

What is this fatal attraction between Thai drivers and concrete poles?

Alcohol, speed and mobile phones......together they can create a form of magnetic attraction it seems........

 

Oh....plus a complete disregard for their own lives or anyone else's life.

Edited October 22, 2020 by Surelynot

[sammieuk1]

Lucky he didn't take anyone else out at that warp speed ????

[Old Croc]

[poohy]

Well if that's what's left of the car i am not overly surprised

Whatever the cause at least no one else was injured

[poohy]

33 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said:

Where the heck is the "Edit" button gone?

Is it only me?

Nah its not its gone from a nice clear  edit button ...to lets have a seance  to find it

that's probably what this bloke was looking for, albeit at high speed

Edited October 22, 2020 by poohy

[2 is 1]

19 minutes ago, Old Croc said:

Toyot Altis? What that car is eaten?

[Pattaya Spotter]

40 minutes ago, steven100 said:

must have been travelling at extremely high speed to do that much damage on impact.  The car is completely unrecognizable 

I was gonna ask how fast was the pole traveling.

[Mavideol]

RIP man... stupxxxty  nothing else to say.... as it has been repeatedly said by all posts

[Oldie]

That speaks for the quality of the power poles... 

[PatOngo]

Did'nt mess around, did he!

 

[Crusader]

If he killed himself due to his own recklessnes...fair play.  If he suffered some kind of medical issue...unfortunate. But he sure did a job on the car.

[ChrisY1]

3 hours ago, Rimmer said:

The text in the links says the speedo was stuck on 220kmh

Don't know how digital speedos stayed on after something like this.....the battery must have disintergrated

[Matzzon]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Police together with Kusoldharm rescue workers

are still scratching their head to find out what car this originally was. 

[mrfill]

49 minutes ago, ChrisY1 said:

Don't know how digital speedos stayed on after something like this.....the battery must have disintergrated

It was an analogue display (see pics above) although it is a bit odd that the rev counter did not get stuck

[Inepto Cracy]

6 hours ago, Old Croc said:

I do have to point something out. All the news reports do report that the speedometer was stuck at 220 Km/h. Hang no wonder there is so much road carnage if people cannot even read a car speedometer correctly.

See the thin shorter line between the 200 and 220 mark, that's 210 Km/h.

The next big line is thicker, that has the marking of 220. Next thin line is in fact 230Km/h.

The speedometer gets stuck on the speed the vehicle was traveling at the time of impact, to aid in the follow up crash investigation.

Edited October 22, 2020 by Inepto Cracy

[Bangkok Barry]

7 hours ago, Rimmer said:

Top right three dots...

Shows me Report or Share, not Edit. And we've also lost the up arrow on the bottom right to return to the top of the page.

[Inepto Cracy]

9 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said:

Shows me Report or Share, not Edit. And we've also lost the up arrow on the bottom right to return to the top of the page.

 You are quite right Bangkok Barry. If you click on my posts 3 dots, I have the edit option too, you only have two options. So you have to be correct with your first posting. But the other posts 3 dots have only two options too.

Edited October 22, 2020 by Inepto Cracy
Added an extra bit.

[yeahbutif]

I take it was brake fail again.

[peterpaintpot]

11 hours ago, Rimmer said:

Top right three dots...

there are not three dots on my form for "Quote". THere are three dots on post, but they only offer Report or Share.

[richard_smith237]

4 hours ago, Inepto Cracy said:

I do have to point something out. All the news reports do report that the speedometer was stuck at 220 Km/h. Hang no wonder there is so much road carnage if people cannot even read a car speedometer correctly.

See the thin shorter line between the 200 and 220 mark, that's 210 Km/h.

The next big line is thicker, that has the marking of 220. Next thin line is in fact 230Km/h.

The speedometer gets stuck on the speed the vehicle was traveling at the time of impact, to aid in the follow up crash investigation.

 

That sounded good when you read it to yourself right?

 

The position the ‘needle’ sticks on is reliant on the impact dynamics and is not representative of travelling speed.

It has nothing to do with ‘crash investigation’. A dropped ‘speedo clock’ will register many possible final speeds the result based on nothing more than chance. 

 

 

Edit - the edit function still works (iPad anyway).

 

Edited October 22, 2020 by richard_smith237