Today I saw some kind of security guard with a big red flag in the middle of a zebra crossing with red light.

He walked out of the way maybe 10 seconds before the red light changed to green. But the moment he was not on the street anymore, but the light still red, everybody accelerated and ignored the red light. TiT! 

thats  thai standards !- ignore all on highways regulations - eg red lights- .speeding- .drunk driving and so on 

On 2/21/2022 at 7:15 PM, OneMoreFarang said:

Today I saw some kind of security guard with a big red flag in the middle of a zebra crossing with red light.

He walked out of the way maybe 10 seconds before the red light changed to green. But the moment he was not on the street anymore, but the light still red, everybody accelerated and ignored the red light. TiT! 

They tried the flag thing at zebra crossings back in 2006. Lasted about a week until two tourists were squished by a truck in central Bangkok.

 

Pol Maj Akarachai Chamchoi, inspector of Nang Loeng station, said each of the tourists was carrying a safety flag. The flags were placed on the roadside so pedestrians could use them to signal oncoming vehicles to stop—part of a government road safety campaign called "Safe Crossing With Flags"

https://slice-of-thai.com/safe-crossing/