Going the wrong way on the expressway! Netizens call for police to act

[webfact]

Picture: Daily News

 

Footage from a person called Pop Cp on the Twitter site of JS 100 radio station showed a red plate white car going the wrong way on the expressway.

 

It happened in the Bang Na area. 

 

A red plate vehicle is new and possibly has a new driver. At this rate he or she will not be lasting very long on the infamously dangerous Thai roads.

 

The poster said they had been going along normally in the far right lane when the car approached causing them to have to veer to the left.

 

They wondered where they had come from and how they would exit the expressway. 

 

Netizens called for the highway police to get their skates on and arrest the driver for this latest madness on the Thai roads. 

 

Daily News went with "sut ngong" in their picture caption - "most perplexing" would be a polite translation.

 

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[keith101]

Nothing new about Thai driving the wrong way it just comes naturally to them , they learn it from their parents and has been passed on down for decades . 

[Dmaxdan]

Predicted excuse:  "But officer, my GPS told me to drive in that direction."

[KhunBENQ]

Happens quite regularly on German autobahn.

Translates as "ghost drivers".

But there you have a chance to tune in to traffic radio which will interrupt and alarm as soon as one of these is noticed.

Surprisingly few collisions (still some).

Anything like this in Thailand?

 

Ideas about technical facilities to avoid such errors have not materialized.

(went as far as tyre piercing ribbons working in one direction)
 

Edited June 22, 2021 by KhunBENQ

[KhunBENQ]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

The poster said they had been going along normally in the far right lane

On an empty tollway: 500(?) Baht ????

Lesson learned.

 

It's all a result of Covid causing empty tollroads ????

Could you go wrong way in Bangkok on notoriously jammed roads?

Edited June 22, 2021 by KhunBENQ

[hotchilli]

Just a normal day.

[chilly07]

Looks like they spotted an empty road and decided to avoid the jams below.  At least  they were driving in  their  nearside  lane! 

[ThailandRyan]

Probably missed his exit and so made a u-turn to get back to the exit so he did not have pay the extra toll at the exit he was headed for......

[swm59nj]

Why all the fuss?  Isn’t this a somewhat normal way of driving here?

[moe666]

39 minutes ago, swm59nj said:

Why all the fuss?  Isn’t this a somewhat normal way of driving here?

not really

[RobU]

5 hours ago, keith101 said:

Nothing new about Thai driving the wrong way it just comes naturally to them , they learn it from their parents and has been passed on down for decades . 

More likely to be a foreign driver from a country that drives on the right. The wife of a US diplomat recently did this in England. She killed a young man, riding legally on his motorcycle then skipped the country claiming diplomatic immunity from prosecution. The disgusting woman is living free and clear in the US.

[Scott Tracy]

I sometimes watch YouTube videos of Australian, UK, Canadian and US bad driving, just to remind myself that Thailand drivers are not the only <deleted>.

[trainman34014]

Meanwhile at Police Traffic HQ.............Zzzzzzzzz !

[bangon04]

Red plates... driving on the opposite side?   couldn't be Chinese, maybe?