Pattaya: Accident in thick fog - devastating pictures as man survives collision with truck

 

Picture: Sophon Cable TV

 

Huay Yai police and rescue services were called after a Nissan Tiida piled into the back of an 18 wheel truck in heavy fog on Route 331 in the direction of Bowin in Khao Mai Kaew sub-district of Bang Lamung yesterday. 

 

Semiconscious behind the wheel of the Nissan was an unidentified man aged about 30. The rescue team soon had him cut out and on the way to hospital. 

 

Picture: Sophon Cable TV

 

Pictures published by Sophon Cable TV showed the devastation to the front of his car.

 

A man called Kan, 39, went into the debris and came off his CB 150 R motorcycle but was not badly hurt.

 

Also at the scene was Apilak, 31, the driver of the Hino 18 wheeler.

 

He said there was thick fog and seeing no traffic he cautiously did a U-turn heading for Bowin before the car travelling at high speed went into his rear. 

 

Source: Sophon Cable TV

 

 

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Another one with no brains. What speed was he doing in thick fog to cause so much damage. Or maybe he just had the wrong amulet with him.

12 minutes ago, webfact said:

 

Pictures published by Sophon Cable TV showed the devastation to the front of his car.

Pictures which show he was travelling at an insane speed given it was foggy.

Highly fortunate to still be alive and very lucky he didn't kill anyone else.

That would be reckless driving and possible jail time in many places.

I see it in heavy rain & at night.

 

Drivers out driving their visibility.

 

I can avoid driving out of town in the highway at night, but it’s not easy to avoid the torrential downpour - some proper idiots can be witnessed !! 

Sounds like two idiots to me - A idiot driver driving his car too fast in fog, and an idiot lorry driver doing a 'cautious' U-turn in heavy fog

I know a falang  who can't slow down.

 

Rain or fog, he's compelled to pass the cars around him.   He hates to follow anyone.

 

He thinks potholes cause flat tires without realizing he goes over them at 140 KPH.    He'll never learn because he believes he's special.

 

 

Very lucky not to be dead. Will he accept it was his own fault? Probably not. I see so many risky driving situations when here or in the UK and it seems drivers have no comprehension of the possible results.

 

er....fog or pollution?

8 hours ago, webfact said:

he cautiously did a U-turn heading for Bowin before the car travelling at high speed went into his rear. 

 

That last sentence just sums it up nicely I'm afraid, "Travelling at high speed" when will these Muppets ever learn? slow the <deleted> down !!!

5 hours ago, Golden Triangle said:

 

That last sentence just sums it up nicely I'm afraid, "Travelling at high speed" when will these Muppets ever learn? slow the <deleted> down !!!

Lets be open and honest here.

Most of these drivers in Thailand would never even get a License in the West

3 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Sounds like two idiots to me - A idiot driver driving his car too fast in fog, and an idiot lorry driver doing a 'cautious' U-turn in heavy fog

Got it in one... 

7 hours ago, AhFarangJa said:

Another one with no brains. What speed was he doing in thick fog to cause so much damage. Or maybe he just had the wrong amulet with him.

I don’t think you’d have to be that fast to be honest. These old trucks don’t have a guardrail at the back end, so the lower end of the flatbed will act like a razor. 80 kilometers per hour would do the trick just fine, considering the fact that the truck was most likely almost at a standstill. Just have a look at official crash tests posted on YouTube that are done at a speed of 50 or 60 km/h. The cars don’t look much better.

Every time we read of these incidents it always happen at high speed. Thais can only operate at the max, whether it is while driving, playing music that shakes the windows or with extreme violence. Very strange.

Last time I was driving the 331 (yesterday) there was a 90km speed limit all the way along it, regretfully most come past me at well over 120km sun, rain or fog 

Highway 331 was known as the highway of death when it was still 2 lanes,for 2 reasons lots of fatal accidents and highway robberies.Maybe the widening to 4 lanes hasn't been able to lift the curse on this jinxed thoroughfare. 

10 hours ago, thecyclist said:

Highway 331 was known as the highway of death when it was still 2 lanes,for 2 reasons lots of fatal accidents and highway robberies.Maybe the widening to 4 lanes hasn't been able to lift the curse on this jinxed thoroughfare. 

I thought that was Hwy 36? Heck the whole network can be christened similarly. 

Hope the road makes a full recovery

From the pics you can't call that heavy fog, where I'm from in central Ca we have tullie fog. You follow the fog line because it's often hard to follow the road. I'd bet the accident would have happened here on a clear day as well.

fog means fun

 

lights are for losers

 

speed is for winners

 

close your eyes for bonus points

12 hours ago, pacovl46 said:

I don’t think you’d have to be that fast to be honest. These old trucks don’t have a guardrail at the back end, so the lower end of the flatbed will act like a razor. 80 kilometers per hour would do the trick just fine, considering the fact that the truck was most likely almost at a standstill. Just have a look at official crash tests posted on YouTube that are done at a speed of 50 or 60 km/h. The cars don’t look much better.

I can agree with your comment regarding the trucks, they are a danger in themselves with no guards, however, if it was thick fog then, (and this is only my opinion), even 80 is too fast,

It's really difficult trying to explain to Thai's about driving in different conditions and how you have to adapt, When my wife was first learning to drive there is lots of things they dont teach, She took to it very well but there was lots of things I had to teach her like driving in the rain especially after a long hot spell, the road becomes like a skating rink,

Try telling a Thai the breaks dont work the same in torrential rain like we get some times down here in Phuket, 

How important is it to know about "Stopping Distance"? very I would say

1 hour ago, AhFarangJa said:

I can agree with your comment regarding the trucks, they are a danger in themselves with no guards, however, if it was thick fog then, (and this is only my opinion), even 80 is too fast,

I agree, but even at 50 he probably wouldn’t have made it.

1 hour ago, ChipButty said:

Try telling a Thai the breaks dont work the same in torrential rain like we get some times down here in Phuket, 

well, nobody here really speaks fluent Thai......  brakes on a car....  torrential..... and maybe there are 2/75000000 Thais who are reading this.   BUT just in case they are getting their information here:

 

rain after noon is fine.  rain before 7 a.m. means good fishing.  rain after 1 p.m. means top speed....rain at night is good luck for lottery if you drive 100 kph to 711....and rain all day means try to drive through standing water (water lots lots) while standing on the hood...

 

we are all just typing for our own entertainment.  

maybe thai driving at speed and no lights !!!

Speed kills or maims.  Of all the sins visible on Thai roads, it is the easiest to curb; IF there was a police force! 

CCTV = radar traps.  A simple knock on the door - car confiscated for 3, 6 then forever.  Job done.  Even Thais can be taught.

Just now, mikebell said:

Speed kills or maims.  Of all the sins visible on Thai roads, it is the easiest to curb; IF there was a police force! 

CCTV = radar traps.  A simple knock on the door - car confiscated for 3, 6 then forever.  Job done.  Even Thais can be taught.

 

Please remind me never to vote for you!

........was an unidentified man...sounds about right although I would have written unidentifiable man, considering the damage.

17 minutes ago, VocalNeal said:

 

Please remind me never to vote for you!

You don't get a vote here unless you are rich, in the police or army.  I am not allowed to stand as I am foreign, educated and unconnected to any mafia.

45 minutes ago, mikebell said:

You don't get a vote here unless you are rich, in the police or army.  I am not allowed to stand as I am foreign, educated and unconnected to any mafia.

Off topic, but my wife is non of the above but she gets a vote.

3 minutes ago, Moonlover said:

Off topic, but my wife is non of the above but she gets a vote.

Which can usually be subject to offers....?