Picture: Thai Rath

 

Ban Bung police in Chonburi in central/eastern Thailand were called after a collision between a Suzuki Smash and a Hino truck on a bend in the Ban Bung Kradon to Ban Nong Chan road yesterday around 6 pm.

 

One man - the driver of the motorcycle - was dead at the scene gaving suffered a head injury. His passenger was in a serious condition and is now in hospital.

 

Kong, 55, the trucker, said he was carrying sand to a retail store when he was going round a bend and was hit by the motorcycle in the center to rear section. 

 

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The motorcycle had severe damage and a mangled front wheel. Kong stopped 30 meters away and was on hand to tell the police what happened from his perspective. 

 

Investigations continue.

 

Both the injured man and his passenger were unidentified in the Thai Rath story. 

 

Around 70 - 80% of road accident fatalities in Thailand are motorcyclists, notes ASEAN NOW, contributing to an annual death toll thought to be well in advance of 20,000, one of the highest per capita in the world. 

 

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WEAR A HELMET! 

 

Capitalization for emphasis as most here seem to be too stupid to understand this simple concept. 

Don't want to take the seriousness of the incident away but this accident involved a Susuki Smash !!.  Perhaps they should give them a different model name in Thailand.

2 hours ago, Excel said:

Don't want to take the seriousness of the incident away but this accident involved a Susuki Smash !!.  Perhaps they should give them a different model name in Thailand.

My wife rides a Smash.  Was there ever a more rediculous name for a bike ? Isuppose if it went to 125cc it could become a Smash Hit.

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Kong, 55, the trucker, said he was carrying sand to a retail store when he was going round a bend and was hit by the motorcycle in the center to rear section

Sounds nasty.

4 hours ago, Excel said:

Don't want to take the seriousness of the incident away but this accident involved a Susuki Smash !!.  Perhaps they should give them a different model name in Thailand.

Suzuki splat?

That's not the way to pack the sand down...

5 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Sounds nasty.

Caught with his shorts down I must say....

5 hours ago, webfact said:

contributing to an annual death toll thought to be well in advance of 20,000, one of the highest per capita in the world. 

With reportedly half the deaths from covid than on the roads in 2 years, maybe they should have a new tourist slogan.

 

Why die of Covid in your own country, when you can die on our roads !

so the headline intimates that the Smash ran into the truck, but it sounds more like the truck cut into the smash, oh for more clear reporting, wouldn't it be nice if they told you there was or wasn't a junction etc. Survivors like winners seem to write history here rather than the ping pong heads measuring the marks on the road and stuff like that and drawing their own conclusions.

Suzuki Smash, surely the name enough to deter buyers!

22 hours ago, webfact said:

when he was going round a bend and was hit by the motorcycle in the center to rear section. 

Ah those dreaded bends, most Thai drivers send me round the bend constantly even on straight roads. ????

21 hours ago, brianthainess said:

Ah those dreaded bends, most Thai drivers send me round the bend constantly even on straight roads. ????

I just wish they would pay attention to lane markings, rather than taking the shortest path.....

1 hour ago, jacko45k said:

I just wish they would pay attention to lane markings, rather than taking the shortest path.....

On Koh Chang there are steep hair pin bends, the big cement trucks manage to keep in the lane, but small cars can't, or if new to the island stall on the first steep bend, and its not just Thais.