Thailand Road Carnage: Two drivers dead, 3 critical as 10 wheeler and pick-up collide in Sattahip

[webfact]

Picture: Naew Na

 

Naew Na reported that Pol Capt Bunsong Yingyong of the Phlutaluang constabulary in Sattahip, Chonburi, was called after a ten wheel truck went across the central reservation and slammed head on into a pick-up on Route 332 near the Jay - Kasemphon intersection.

 

Driving the pick-up was 63 year old Banthit who was pronounced dead in hospital.

 

In a critical condition was his front seat passenger Siriphen, 61. Also critical were the back seat passengers named as Somsak, 32, and Mongkhol, 19.

 

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They were taken to the Sirikit and Sattahip hospitals. 

 

Thrown from the cab of his earth moving truck was 58 year old Sunthorn, pronounced dead at the scene. 

 

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[The Hammer2021]

Thailand  Road Conditions - Carnage is so sensationalist but now so oft repeated its meaningless

[worgeordie]

More..... micro sleep.

regards worgeordie

[JeffersLos]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Thrown from the cab of his earth moving truck was 58 year old Sunthorn

His seatbelt didn't work then.

 

You must be moving at quite the rates of knots to be thrown from the cab of a truck.

[Muhendis]

32 minutes ago, JeffersLos said:

His seatbelt didn't work then.

 

You must be moving at quite the rates of knots to be thrown from the cab of a truck.

Yeah. It looks like he took the windscreen out as he went.

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, The Hammer2021 said:

Thailand  Road Conditions - Carnage is so sensationalist but now so oft repeated its meaningless

Groundhog day Thailand.

[Leaver]

4 hours ago, worgeordie said:

More..... micro sleep.

 

Which occurs just before the eternal sleep. 

[Gottfrid]

same, same

[Srikcir]

8 hours ago, JeffersLos said:

His seatbelt didn't work then.

 

You must be moving at quite the rates of knots to be thrown from the cab of a truck.

Wouldn't be the opposite - relatively slower moving? The force from impact is based in part on mass. The 10-wheeler might have 5x (unloaded?) - 10x (loaded?) the mass of the pickup with passengers.

As such, the 10-wheeler driver should have had very little forward momentum in the crash. Especially if he was buckled up and traveling at a high rate of speed. The fact that the 10-wheeler driver had enough momentum to push the windshield down and outward (not crashing through it) suggests that maybe he was not buckled up and perhaps even a defective windshield installation. His death might be the result of a broken neck than something like a skull fracture.

[kwonitoy]

8 hours ago, Muhendis said:

Yeah. It looks like he took the windscreen out as he went.

There's a saying with cab over trucks as opposed to conventional cab trucks

You'll be the first person at the scene of the accident

[Road Warrior]

sad  more road deaths /thai driving still unbelievable !!!

[mikebell]

This will continue till Thailand gets a police force and enforces safe driving laws; speed kills + driving long hours. Both enforced in less primitive societies.

[NanLaew]

38 minutes ago, mikebell said:

Both enforced in less primitive societies.

I think your bash would be more pithy if it said, "Both enforced in more primitive societies."

 

Hope this helps.

[mikebell]

1 minute ago, NanLaew said:

I think your bash would be more pithy if it said, "Both enforced in more primitive societies."

 

Hope this helps.

Thailand is sixty years behind Europe in its attitude to corruption/wild dogs and poor policing.  It is thus more primitive.  Enforcing the law is a sign of less primitive societies, so I stick with my original contention.  Get someone to explain it to you.

[VocalNeal]

8 minutes ago, mikebell said:

Thailand is sixty years behind Europe in its attitude to corruption/wild dogs and poor policing.

...and also in SE Asia?  Where things are a bit more tropical and relaxed.

Edited May 10, 2022 by VocalNeal

[The Hammer2021]

Thailand  Road  tragedy - why the constant  use of 'carnage'

[NanLaew]

17 minutes ago, mikebell said:

23 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

I think your bash would be more pithy if it said, "Both enforced in more primitive societies."

 

Hope this helps.

Thailand is sixty years behind Europe in its attitude to corruption/wild dogs and poor policing.  It is thus more primitive.  Enforcing the law is a sign of less primitive societies, so I stick with my original contention.  Get someone to explain it to you.

No need.

 

I just thought that if you said something like, "Even the Kingdom of Eswatini has better road traffic law enforcement", it would say so, so much more more than your rote "primitive Thailand" diatribe.

[LennyW]

20 hours ago, JeffersLos said:

His seatbelt didn't work then.

 

You must be moving at quite the rates of knots to be thrown from the cab of a truck.

Not really, it is the sudden stop that does it

[NanLaew]

4 minutes ago, LennyW said:

20 hours ago, JeffersLos said:

His seatbelt didn't work then.

 

You must be moving at quite the rates of knots to be thrown from the cab of a truck.

Not really, it is the sudden stop that does it

..and gravity. Never forget the force of gravity.

[Thunglom]

It crossed te central reservation! This is because Thai roads are simply not safe - they are badly designed and have inferior safety measures.

[Thunglom]

On 5/9/2022 at 7:31 AM, JeffersLos said:

His seatbelt didn't work then.

 

You must be moving at quite the rates of knots to be thrown from the cab of a truck.

You need to brush up on your O level physics. If the vehicle stops suddenly and lose objects continue at the sam speed. Their kinetic energy needs to be absorbed in order to prevent injury.

With properly fitted barriers on the central reservation the trucks kinetic energy would have been absorbed, instead it came to a sudden halt (probably because it collided with an oncoming vehicle). Seatbelts may have helped here.

 

 

[Thunglom]

14 hours ago, NanLaew said:

..and gravity. Never forget the force of gravity.

are you suggesting he could have flown in some circumstances?

 

[Thunglom]

On 5/9/2022 at 4:40 AM, The Hammer2021 said:

Thailand  Road Conditions - Carnage is so sensationalist but now so oft repeated its meaningless

It shows an attitude - one of disgust and blame - a total failut=re to ask what are the real underlying causes.

[The Hammer2021]

21 minutes ago, Thunglom said:

It shows an attitude - one of disgust and blame - a total failut=re to ask what are the real underlying causes.

It shows nothing  when it is repeated hundreds of times. It becomes a meaningless  phrase. It's silly sensationalism.  Grinding  poverty and corruption  kills people in Thailand than car crashes but reporting that would  be 'political' so "road carnage ' is a nice  safe meaningless,  endlessly  repeated headline.

Road carnage = headline garbage. But the constant 'car narj ' headline allows the pearl  clutchers to be grimly satisfied that they are superior, sensible and somehow better...

 

[Thunglom]

22 minutes ago, The Hammer2021 said:

Road carnage = headline garbage. But the constant 'car narj ' headline allows the pearl  clutchers to be grimly satisfied that they are superior, sensible and somehow better...

YEs- absolutely - but the repeated use of the word carnage - although in itself meaningless now, shows how little the media and others know about road safety.

You are right, it is the poorest who die. Road safety is a public health issue and successive governments have failed to do anything about it - like the media they all put their hands up and declare "it's dreadful" etcetc, but as soon as they godown t "bad driving" blame road they have shown they understand nothing - and thus no change will occur.

[mikebell]

20 hours ago, NanLaew said:

No need.

 

I just thought that if you said something like, "Even the Kingdom of Eswatini has better road traffic law enforcement", it would say so, so much more more than your rote "primitive Thailand" diatribe.

Eswatini is allowed public protests unlike Thailand.

'With an average of 356 traffic fatalities per year (2012 - 2019), road traffic in Eswatini is considered very dangerous.'  That equals ONE week of Thai deaths. 

Saying something by rote doesn't make it less true only that it  happens regularly.

My almost daily diatribe is aimed at Thai police and their lack of effort in bringing down daily deaths; surely you are not defending them?

[jacko45k]

9 minutes ago, mikebell said:

My almost daily diatribe is aimed at Thai police and their lack of effort in bringing down daily deaths; surely you are not defending them?

Well I heard from a pal yesterday who is a FPV guy, fines are going up. No helmet is 800, up from 200 or so. A sort of fund drive perhaps, more than a safety campaign I expect. 

[mikebell]

1 minute ago, jacko45k said:

Well I heard from a pal yesterday who is a FPV guy, fines are going up. No helmet is 800, up from 200 or so. A sort of fund drive perhaps, more than a safety campaign I expect. 

What's an FPV guy?  (Incidentally Pfizer booster due on Friday.)

[jacko45k]

15 minutes ago, mikebell said:

What's an FPV guy?  (Incidentally Pfizer booster due on Friday.)

Foreign Police Volunteer. 

[steve187]

RIP and a good recovery for the injured,

that's 2 nasty crashes in  few weeks on the 332 road, one at each end, both close to the 3 road, looking at the damage it doesn't look like a head on crash, hardly any damage to the front of the pick up, hard impact on drivers door and front wing.

Edited May 11, 2022 by steve187