Phuket suffers first road death for Songkran holidays

[webfact]

Image: DDPM-Phuket

 

By The Phuket News

 

PHUKET: Phuket has suffered its first death during the Seven Days of Danger road-safety campaign for the Songkran Thai New Year holidays.

 

Hiroshi Chamoto, 50, died after suffering fatal head and torso injuries in a motorbike accident on a small road at the entrance to Moo Baan Suan Chor Phon at about 5:15pm yesterday (Apr 12), reported the Phuket office of the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM-Phuket).

 

Mr Chamoto was driving too fast and fell by himself, He was not wearing a helmet at the time, said the report for yesterday, Day 3 of the campaign.

 

Full story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-suffers-first-road-death-for-songkran-holidays-79668.php

 

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[RichardColeman]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Mr Chamoto was driving too fast and fell by himself, He was not wearing a helmet at the time

At 50 you would have thought age had brought intelligence.

[KhunBENQ]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Full story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-suffers-first-road-death-for-songkran-holidays-79668.php

Highly recommend to read about the non fatals.

too fast... fell himself... no helmet...

too fast... fell himself... no helmet...

too fast... fell himself... no helmet...

...

 

[madmitch]

17 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said:

Highly recommend to read about the non fatals.

too fast... fell himself... no helmet...

too fast... fell himself... no helmet...

too fast... fell himself... no helmet...

...

 

The first of these was close to the area where the road collapsed on the hills between Chalong and Kata. There are a whole load of loose stones on the road there after they did some work a couple of days ago and my immediate thought when I drove past the lady lying on the floor was that this was probably a contributing factor in the accident. No other vehicles seemed involved.

[Pattaya Spotter]

Poor Hiroshi...if he had just reached for a helmet and checked his lead foot.