Video: Car smashes into back of parked resurfacing vehicle after collision with motorcycle taxi on Bang Na -Trat

[webfact]

Picture: 77kaoded

 

77kaoded reported on an accident on the Bang Na - Trat highway at KM marker 15 in the early hours of yesterday morning.

 

A Suzuki Swift driven by 26 year old Patrathip had slammed into the back of an asphalt resurfacing trucked parked by the side of the local road.

 

He had to be cut out and was then given first aid by Poh Teck Tung staff before being taken to Chularat Suwannaphum Hospital with serious injuries including a broken right arm and broken right leg.

 

Phromdee, 57, a motorcycle taxi rider, said he had been in the left lane and moved slightly right to avoid cones.

 

He was struck by the Swift and came off injuring his wrist.

 

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Picture: 77kaoded

 

The car lost control and plowed into the back of the parked vehicle.

 

Phlerngtalay, 43, said that he had been sleeping in another vehicle after completing asphalt work at 2.00 am. 

 

He said he had put out the required cones.

 

Bang Plee police are investigating.

 

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[Mr Meeseeks]

19 minutes ago, webfact said:

The car lost control

No, the driver lost control of the vehicle. 

[richard_smith237]

8 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

28 minutes ago, webfact said:

The car lost control

No, the driver lost control of the vehicle. 

Or more likely, the driver wasn’t looking... then panicked and couldn’t stop in time. 

 

 

Its utterly astonishing how many accidents there are in Thailand involving those who have driven straight into large stationary objects.....  

[jossthaifarang]

Reading and replying to line messages no doubt...

[hotchilli]

Just another day.

[mushroomdave]

Fell asleep (sorry....."micro sleep" in Thai) or on the phone.....take your pick!!

[Liverpool Lou]

On 5/11/2022 at 2:27 PM, jossthaifarang said:

Reading and replying to line messages no doubt...

Or you could read the OP and see what the witness, i.e. the bike rider who swerved into the path of the car, said actually happened.

[Liverpool Lou]

On 5/11/2022 at 1:05 PM, richard_smith237 said:

Or more likely, the driver wasn’t looking... then panicked and couldn’t stop in time. 

 

 

Its utterly astonishing how many accidents there are in Thailand involving those who have driven straight into large stationary objects.....  

Or, in actual fact, the bike moved into the path of the car, as the rider stated, causing the driver to lose control and to hit the parked vehicle, as clearly reported in the OP.   

 

It is utterly astonishing how many posters cannot read OPs.

[Liverpool Lou]

On 5/11/2022 at 12:55 PM, Mr Meeseeks said:

On 5/11/2022 at 12:35 PM, webfact said:

The car lost control

No, the driver lost control of the vehicle. 

No, the bike rider caused the car's driver to lose control, as he admitted in the OP.

Edited May 14, 2022 by Liverpool Lou

[Liverpool Lou]

On 5/11/2022 at 10:19 PM, mushroomdave said:

Fell asleep (sorry....."micro sleep" in Thai) or on the phone.....take your pick!!

Or read what actually happened, as reported in the OP and then take your pick of reality or speculation!

Edited May 14, 2022 by Liverpool Lou

[Doctor Tom]

Half of the problem here with road works of any kind, is that they give you no notice of impeding works until you are on top of them.  Even on the motorways, they seem to think that a few cones around the people or vehicles is enough warning, even in the fast lane.  A warning sign of up coming works, at least 500m before,  would help. 

[Liverpool Lou]

This part of the OP is sort of relevant, albeit not fitting the usual agenda of the usual Thaivisa suspects...

 

"Phromdee, 57, a motorcycle taxi rider, said he had been in the left lane and moved slightly right to avoid cones.  He was struck by the Swift and came off injuring his wrist.

The car lost control and plowed into the back of the parked vehicle".

[JeffersLos]

On 5/11/2022 at 12:35 PM, webfact said:

motorcycle taxi rider, said he had been in the left lane and moved slightly right to avoid cones.

So, pulled out in front of the car without looking, then. 

[richard_smith237]

36 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

On 5/11/2022 at 1:05 PM, richard_smith237 said:

Or more likely, the driver wasn’t looking... then panicked and couldn’t stop in time. 

 

 

Its utterly astonishing how many accidents there are in Thailand involving those who have driven straight into large stationary objects.....  

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Or, in actual fact, the bike moved into the path of the car, as the rider stated, causing the driver to lose control and to hit the parked vehicle, as clearly reported in the OP.   

 

It is utterly astonishing how many posters cannot read OPs.

Or, in actual fact, the driver of the car wasn’t looking...  

 

Because IF the car driver was looking he would have seen the cones, he would have seen that the motorcycle rider needed to manoeuvre and change lanes, he’d have slowed and would not have needed to swerve so violently and lose control and smash into the resurfacing vehicle. 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 14, 2022 by richard_smith237

[Liverpool Lou]

4 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

Because IF the car driver was looking he would have seen the cones,

It was the early hours of the morning, dark and raining (judging from the road), perhaps that's why he didn't see the cones...if they were obvious, of course. 

 

For God's sake, don't blame the bike rider who admitted his part in the accident!

Edited May 14, 2022 by Liverpool Lou

[richard_smith237]

36 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

On 5/11/2022 at 12:55 PM, Mr Meeseeks said:

On 5/11/2022 at 12:35 PM, webfact said:

The car lost control

No, the driver lost control of the vehicle. 

No, the bike rider caused the car's driver to lose control, as he admitted in the OP.

No... a motorcycle doesn’t make a car lose control.  The motorcycle itself is too light. 

 

The driver of the car lost control because he made the car move suddenly and violently to avoid the motorcycle....   The car driver was not looking ahead and failed to recognise that the motorcyclist would merge until it was too late and lost control. 

 

The car driver failed to control his vehicle appropriately to the traffic conditions because he wasn’t paying attention and wasn’t looking properly.

 

 

[richard_smith237]

13 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

It was the early hours of the morning, dark and raining (judging from the road), perhaps that's why he didn't see the cones...if they were obvious, of course. 

 

For God's sake, don't blame the bike rider who admitted his part in the accident!

Thats a valid point: IF any other road works are to go by then its unlikely there were any decent markings or lighting and the road was poorly lit.

 

How did the motorcyclist see the cones and change lanes but the car driver failed to then ?? (driver wasn’t looking ?)

 

The accident was reported to the police at 7am, so we can assume it happened some minutes earlier in daylight hours. 

 

 

Of course, the bike rider caused the accident because he changed lanes  when a car was approaching (happens a lot in Thailand)...  

 

The Car driver also caused the accident because he wasn’t paying attention and over reacted and it would appear he was driving too fast for the conditions.

 

As often the case in Thailand - both parties cause the accident. IF one of the parties had been riding or driving ‘correctly’ the incident would not have occurred. 

 

Thus: 

- Had the bike rider looked before changing lanes - the car driver would not have had to react so suddenly. 

- Had the car driver been reading the road ahead and driving at a reasonable speed he would not have needed to react so suddenly as he would have predicted the motorcycle changing lanes (driver wasn’t looking).

 

Note: the motorcyclists changed into the right lane. 

The car swerved and lost control to the left, thus, he must have had quite a ’tank slapper’ for the car to impact the resurfacing vehicle on the left hand side of the road = Going too fast... 

 

 

 

Edited May 14, 2022 by richard_smith237

[Liverpool Lou]

26 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

The accident was reported to the police at 7am, so we can assume it happened some minutes earlier in daylight hours. 

The OP reports the accident as happening "in the early hours", the police were reported as being notified at 7am so it's not safe to assume that it happened in daylight hours.  Police do not always attend traffic accidents and there were no police in the pictures.

Edited May 14, 2022 by Liverpool Lou

[mnomad]

 

On 5/11/2022 at 1:05 PM, richard_smith237 said:

Or more likely, the driver wasn’t looking... then panicked and couldn’t stop in time. 

 

 

Its utterly astonishing how many accidents there are in Thailand involving those who have driven straight into large stationary objects.....  

They are just  astoundingly bad drivers, I did a few hundred miles the other week, and you see the road awareness is nearly zero, for example they will be accelerating as the car in front is breaking - with functioning break lights, yet doesn't register, resulting in harsh breaking a few hundred milliseconds later for somchai tailer.

Edited May 14, 2022 by mnomad

[richard_smith237]

46 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

The OP reports the accident as happening "in the early hours", the police were reported as being notified at 7am so it's not safe to assume that it happened in daylight hours.  Police do not always attend traffic accidents and there were no police in the pictures.

 

You are making your ‘usual’ mistake of hanging on to the exact wording used in the reports when we all know fully well that the reporting in these articles is nearly always vague and often inaccurate. 

 

In this case ‘in the early hours’ is extremely vague... it could mean 2am or 7am and anywhere in between..... 

 

The police were called at 7am - Its very common in Thailand that the Police are called straight away in any accident (on the road). 

 

 

In this screen capture from the video of the aftermath of the incident they are extracting the injured driver from his car..... I don’t think they waited until daylight.

 

Advice: Stop pinning your arguments on the ‘exact phrases’ of these reports - the reporting is terrible and the assumptions and opinions of many posters often makes far more sense than the quoted ‘lies’ we read or the inaccuracies of the report and often assumption and opinions of a lazy reporter. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 14, 2022 by richard_smith237