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Australian Teen Dies in Koh Samui Motorbike Collision
If you think that blaming “bad driving” is a valid comment on this incident or road safety in Thailand, you need to rethink your ideas on road safety and look at the real dangers on Thai roads. There is no crash report for this incident and anything you say is pure supposition. Every time there’s another tragic motorcycle crash involving young people, the same tired comments pop up: “They shouldn’t have been speeding,” or “They don’t know how to drive.” “high on weed or alcohol”… Honestly, this kind of finger-pointing misses the bigger picture and does more harm than good. Risky behaviour plays a part that’s “bleedin’ obvious”, but if you keep reducing these crashes to “bad driving,” you’re ignoring the serious, systemic issues that actually make Thai roads among the deadliest in the world. Road safety is a public health issue – if you don’t see that you can’t make a valid comment. Be real! – Thai roads are themselves are unsafe. Badly designed with substandard poorly maintained surfaces, (loose materials all over Samui’s roads) - zero margin for error, no lighting at night, and sudden drop-offs or ditches make even a small mistake fatal. There are deadly roadside obstacles are everywhere. Concrete poles, trees, deep drainage canal right next to the edge of the road just waiting for any vehicle that has lost control. In many countries, these areas are cleared for safety or protected with barriers. Not here. The elephant in the room is the emergency services, which are often slow or poorly equipped. There is a lack of fully trained paramedics and no universal standard for emergency vehicles Even survivable injuries become fatal because of delays or lack of proper care at the scene and en route to hospitals. – You know of the “golden hour”? Another cliché is “police do you job” – This requires government action - it seems nobody including the police know what that job is. All over Thailand, there is almost no consistent enforcement. Helmets? Speeding? Underage driving? These things go unchecked far too often. The police are untrained, equipment is indirectly deployed If there are no real consequences, why would anything change? In fact the concept of traffic police is way too vague in Thailand. An example of police ineptitude is enforcement in the form of random checkpoints – these have been shown worldwide to be ineffective. So instead of repeating the same clichés every time a young rider dies, maybe we should start asking harder questions: Why was this teen riding motorcycles in the first place? We have to look at those back at home who should have informed him better. Rental shops now have to account for the people they rent to – e.g. valid licences and helmets od ISO quality Why aren’t the roads built to be forgiving of human error? This is a cornerstone of road safety. And most of all —we should be furious that the system keeps letting this happen – not the victims Until we start talking about infrastructure, education, enforcement, and emergency response, these tragedies will keep happening. And blaming young people, especially when they’re the victims, just adds insult to injury. Let’s stop accepting this as normal. It’s not, you are just using cynicism to cover your own ignorance. -
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Elderly Recycler Killed on Pedestrian Crossing After Being Hit Twice by Motorbikes
I hope this receives the same national outrage as the ophthalmologist who was killed on a crossing in Bkk a few years ago… -
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Drunken foreign trouble making thug gets bottle smashed over his head.
& it’s still the same - just not on these areas where idiot tourist frequent. Lets face it, these area’s attract the worst of both foreign and local characters. Elsewhere, in Thailand, blending into the polite culture & harmoniously interacting with the Thai’s is the norm. These examples we see are newsworthy but ultimately outliers of the real experiences here - which is why you, I & many of us who live here, trouble free & have many genuine Thai friends. -
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Game On
Typical fascist move to grab total power. There was no such "emergency" in reality.
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