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A pickup truck overturned in Chonburi reportedly due to a wet road.

 

Nongprue police and rescue services responded to a road accident on Road Number 36 in the Pong subdistrict of Banglamung, Chonburi, today, September 1st.

 

The car was a black Toyota Cab pickup truck. It was found overturned on the grassy side of the road with 36-year-old driver Ekapong Phutthawong, a Nan province native, trapped inside with his unidentified female friend.

 

Full Story: https://thepattayanews.com/2022/09/01/pickup-truck-overturns-in-pattaya-area-driver-blames-wet-road-and-says-wasnt-his-fault/

 

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"driver blames wet road and says wasn’t his fault"

 

If the reporting is true, block this idiot from ever driving again. I just paid my insurance premiums some of which go to numbskulls like this.

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Pickup truck overturns, driver blames wet road

Either it's the driver's fault, or he is too visually impaired to be driving and therefore it is his fault.

 

It's his fault.

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He claimed the issue was not his fault, but the fault of the rain and wet road.

????

7 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

driver blames wet road

I refuse to drive on the dangerous wet roads. 

 

The authorities should dispatch special vehicles to dry our roads.

Actually, better still, they should have all roads covered by awnings to protect our roads from the rain. 

 

Yes, wet roads are such a rare occurrence in Thailand that this driver couldn't possibly be prepared for the humongous risk od driving and not having super-human driving skills needed. Wet roads!  ....oh the horror!

NO once again, rain and driving too fast should be attributed to the accident, does anyone else see a pattern here ...............!!!

He then crashed into a lamppost and overturned. 

 

Commiserations to the stationary object

 

Slick tires can catch you out at 140kpm in the rain amazingly ????  

10 hours ago, Hamus Yaigh said:

"driver blames wet road and says wasn’t his fault"

 

If the reporting is true, block this idiot from ever driving again. I just paid my insurance premiums some of which go to numbskulls like this.

100% his fault, too fast for the conditions, i didn't read he was an insurance agent,

6 hours ago, Geoffggi said:

NO once again, rain and driving too fast should be attributed to the accident, does anyone else see a pattern here ...............!!!

The locals are never to blame in these situations..... that is why they need not alter their behavior to compensate for the dangers!

I noticed after living here for almost three years.  Accountability is not really a virtue in the LOS.  

if the moron driver was not speeding and tread on his  tires he would not leave the road  !!!!   

Blaming the roads saves lazy police doing paperwork. There's never a prosecution for driving too fast and without due care and attention.  As an alert earlier poster pointed out, all our Insurance premiums go towards subsidising twonks like these.

6 hours ago, Geoffggi said:

NO once again, rain and driving too fast should be attributed to the accident, does anyone else see a pattern here ...............!!!

Awww, c'mon. His brakes failed too I'm sure.

The rain struck his truck causing it to spin.

1 hour ago, swm59nj said:

I noticed after living here for almost three years.  Accountability is not really a virtue in the LOS.  

Only if you are a foreigner. 

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

A pickup truck overturned in Chonburi reportedly due to a wet road.

Nothing to do with speed then?

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

A pickup truck overturned in Chonburi reportedly due to a wet road.

Can you imagine the  carnage if it ever froze or snowed here.

Edited September 2, 20223 yr by hotchilli

blames wet road 

 

Here we go again Blaming the road instead of admitting his Incompetent driving. 

Can't admit to that , He would lose Face .  

16 hours ago, BangkokReady said:

Either it's the driver's fault, or he is too visually impaired to be driving and therefore it is his fault.

 

It's his fault.

He, possibly, did not have insurance. Even if he did, would the Insurance still pay out if he says it was 'the wet road' which caused it?

 

4 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

He, possibly, did not have insurance. Even if he did, would the Insurance still pay out if he says it was 'the wet road' which caused it?

 

I expect so, presuming it was Class A and not simply liability insurance. 

4 hours ago, jaywalker said:

Awww, c'mon. His brakes failed too I'm sure.

Once again I've been beaten to it.  Not the rain , not the tyres ...Brake fail.

6 hours ago, Jerno said:

Yes, wet roads are such a rare occurrence in Thailand that this driver couldn't possibly be prepared for the humongous risk od driving and not having super-human driving skills needed. Wet roads!  ....oh the horror!

Of course it is not his fault, his vehicle itself went too fast and maybe put the brake on by itself leading to a skid and then the lampost ran in front of his vehicle, and of course being a vehicle it could not see that the road was wet, naughty naughty vehicle. Go change your oil.

Goooooood. Another pick up (from probably a nuthead) from the road. Keep it going guys. The less of those things, that are used as a F1 car, the better.

If it were a hot, dry day it would have been the heat of the asphalt, everybody knows your tires stick to the road when too hot. 

Oh, you're asking why no other cars had this problem?  uuummmmm.......

 

 

New nickname, slick.

It is ALWAYS someone/something else's fault; the driver will NEVER take responsibility for his OWN actions in traffic (or life).
ALWAYS blame:
- wet road
- rain
- brakes
- other people
- telephone
- falling asleep

- anything you want as long it is not driver self!

Drive/Ride safely and be watchful of the idiots (they are everywhere!)

7 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

He then crashed into a lamppost and overturned. 

 

Commiserations to the stationary object

 

Now suffering PTSD.

So he was driving but it wasn't his fault? I suspect he might have been going too fast.