One dead as two six wheel trucks collide head on in Sa Kaeo

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77kaoded Thai Caption: Head on collision on Tako Hill - one dead

 

77kaoded reported on a head on collision between two six wheel trucks on Route 348, the Sa Kaeo to Buriram road. 

 

One driver died after being cut out of his vehicle. 

 

The accident happened in heavy rain around 4 pm yesterday on the Khao Tako hill in Ta Phraya district. 

 

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[Mr Vice]

How in God's name do they manage to crash head on? The standard of driving here beggars belief, it isn't just at Songkhran either!

[richard_smith237]

One of them (Box) truck on the wrong side of the road. 

Either driving too fast and skidding across the road, or simply on wrong side of the road.

 

Tragic if it was the innocent party who was killed. 

[Geoffggi]

41 minutes ago, Mr Vice said:

How in God's name do they manage to crash head on? The standard of driving here beggars belief, it isn't just at Songkhran either!

Brake failure .................

[richard_smith237]

41 minutes ago, Geoffggi said:

Brake failure .................

Nooooo... the brake failure excuse is sooooo yesterday.... 

 

..... the go to excuse now is ‘lap-nai’...  

 

 

As in, "it wasn’t my fault, the micro-sleep was to blame”....

[Excel]

Well now they have a 12 wheel truck

[RichardColeman]

1 hour ago, Mr Vice said:

How in God's name do they manage to crash head on? 

Probably both driving down the middle of the road !

[hotchilli]

1 hour ago, Excel said:

Well now they have a 12 wheel truck

Perfect mating of two idiots

[Bangkok Barry]

4 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

One of them (Box) truck on the wrong side of the road. 

Either driving too fast and skidding across the road, or simply on wrong side of the road.

 

Tragic if it was the innocent party who was killed. 

Looks to me from the damage that the driver on the wrong side of the road was the one killed. That's fine by me.

[Bangkok Barry]

2 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Probably both driving down the middle of the road !

Take a look at the top photo again. There's a solid yellow line that both vehicles are on the left of.

[trainman34014]

When it's wet they need no other excuse.  They can't drive properly when it's dry and perfect driving conditions !

[Rampant Rabbit]

Bonus  Points!!

[Stargeezr]

More like Brain failure. Likely the rain will be the blame, for slippery roadway.

[RocketDog]

9 hours ago, Stargeezr said:

More like Brain failure. Likely the rain will be the blame, for slippery roadway.

I lived in Houston Texas when a freak freeze broke watermains under roads.

Citizens not being used to driving on ice, it turned into a mass collision.

Since it never rains here the drivers were not accustomed to careful driving on wet roads.

Simple misunderstanding.

 

Of course it happens here daily on dry roads but that's not relevant.