Does this really happen in Thailand!? - U-turn antics in Udon draw netizens' ire

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Thai media posed a question in their headline about whether this sort of thing really happens in Thailand after a Facebook video post apparently showed a pick-up driver mounting the central reservation in Udon Thani making a U-turn. 

 

The driver was roundly turned on by netizens for not being patient enough to drive on and find a proper U-turn. 

 

Many said it would cause tailbacks as the driver appeared to have got stuck. 

 

The poster had some choice words in Isaan dialect for what many saw as an example of very poor driving. 

 

Source: Daily News

 

 

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"U-Turn Thani"?

they got a pickup truck. time for a little four wheelin'.

And what else do you expect from the average Thai driver?

19 minutes ago, webfact said:

The driver was roundly turned on by netizens for not being patient enough to drive on and find a proper U-turn. 

The kettle calling the pot black. 

And the netizens were surprised by this???

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Does this really happen in Thailand!?

Is this really a rhetorical question?

I'm less surprised by him making the u-turn than I am him missing a stationary object on the central barrier !

So many times, uncountable.  You see pathways worn into central ditches from constant use, daily you see cars going the wrong way on a road as it's just to in convenient to drive and do a uturn or the as common coming out of a fuel station the wrong way so they can cut across the carriageway the wrong way... 

5 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

they got a pickup truck. time for a little four wheelin'.

Thai style wheelin, can't even get over a curb-stone.

why not?

 

you see trucks and buses driving around crossing arms with lights flashing and bells ringing as the train approaches.

 

c'mon.....that's what amulets are for!

I have to admit that of all the crazy Thai driving that is common, I have not seen this one around here (excluding bikes of course)

I'm used to seeing Thai drivers doing stupid things, such as overtaking on blind curves or on crests where they have no idea what's coming. Or running red lights. I just stay out of their way so I don't become collateral damage.

No training, no licence, no care..........

It actually surprises me that he did that. Normally they would not stop and just keep going into the traffic on the other side.

9 hours ago, webfact said:

Does this really happen in Thailand!?

what a question? the answer is so obvious!

 

 

Looks like he was trying to avoid a tailback.

 

Apparently it does happen in Thailand...as your video shows...

 

I'm still waiting for the media to hire some real journalists. 

10 hours ago, ericthai said:

Apparently it does happen in Thailand...as your video shows...

 

I'm still waiting for the media to hire some real journalists. 

Couldn't open video to play, did i miss much? doubt it.

18 hours ago, Scot123 said:

coming out of a fuel station the wrong way

 

There is a wrong way?

I was a traffic engineer in a previous life. If people feel obliged to do this kind of thing, it is an engineering problem, as a young designer I was often on site with police and local authorities after viewing accident records to try and decide where the problem lay. 

1. For some unexplained reason, when a lot of traffic is expected U-turns are blocked off, which can mean an extra 4 K journey -+ double waiting time at the next opening.

2. For <deleted> instance, driving back home 8 K along a main road after which I then turn right, despite yellow hatching on the road, two days ago I noticed a sign saying "NEXT U-TURN 10 K'. Yes TEN <deleted> K. Who wants to do that? Especially on a motorbike when you want to go 200 metres to the shops. This morning I was going that way anyway and saw that they had started planting bloody great CONCRETE BLOCKS along the centre line to stop U-turns. (Pedestrians can now no longer cross the road, but who cares?).

So instead of solving the problem they absolve themselves of responsibility by putting up silly signs. 

When driving you have to assume that people are stupid in general, or can become so after long hours of driving plus yabaa. Engineering can resolve many problems, often quite easily.

and what did police do to driver           <Deleted> !!!