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Daily News reported on a accident on the Burapha Withi expressway in the middle of the night.

 

That is the 55 km long elevated road that runs from Bang Na to near Chonburi.

 

Inbound at KM marker 14/100 they found a Nissan Navara and a Toyota Revo that had crashed into a six wheel Isuzu truck doing road marking work.

 

Niphon, 32, and a female passenger named only as "A" 15, were in the Nissan. They were taken to Chularat Hospital with severe injuries.

 

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Two injured men in the Toyota were taken to Prince Suvarnabhumi Hospital.

 

The driver, a 22 year old man called Soolkiflee from Yala was dead at the scene.

 

Petchprakan, 48, said his team were from PSD Road Solutions and were putting in road markings.

 

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They had just arrived and had only put out ten cones when he saw the two pick-ups racing each other in the far right lane.

 

Seeing what was about to happen he managed to jump clear. 

 

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6 minutes ago, webfact said:

two pick-ups racing each other

Who won? ????

It was a dead heat

Painting markings in the dead of night.?

Even driving is not advised let alone perform such tasks.

The turtle and the turtle

52 minutes ago, VinnieK said:

Painting markings in the dead of night.?

Even driving is not advised let alone perform such tasks.

Blockign a whole lane in peak hour traffic causes chaos. That's why a lot of this kind of roadwork is done at night. 

I live not far from the ChalermRat expressway, which feeds directly into this elevated expressway to Chonburi.

 

For years, I have heard high powered vehicles tanking it along the expressway in groups. 5-6am on the weekends seems a popular time.

Surprised there hasn't been more incidents like this.

 

Police nowhere to be seen, as usual...

 

Looks like Mr Soolkiflee didn’t. 
 

(Think about it ????)

just another day.

 

i came to thailand first in 2003. same same. 0 has changed in the habits and enforcement. 

 

 

1 minute ago, stoner said:

just another day.

 

i came to thailand first in 2003. same same. 0 has changed in the habits and enforcement. 

 

 

You meant lack of enforcement everyday of the week right?

Stupid is as stupid does, or something like that. Glad they didn't kill any other road users. 

1 hour ago, VinnieK said:

Painting markings in the dead of night.?

Even driving is not advised let alone perform such tasks.

You might think it is because it´s much less traffic during that time and easier to do the work. At least, that answer came to me directly.

Oh well, another idiot off the roads. 
Just glad tey didn't kill any innocents

1 hour ago, realfunster said:

Police nowhere to be seen, as usual...

I've said it before it's too dangerous for the police to be out at night, so they'll be asleep somewhere, also they can't see infractions in daylight so how can you expect the police to see them during the dark.

For me, I don’t celebrate the loss of life- any life much less ones at that young stage …

 

That said, I think that in life you make decisions …. and either earn the rewards or suffer consequences as a result.. and to me, this is a catastrophic consequence of a bad decision made.. 

 

Yes, i know the common rebuttal is something like “weren’t you that age too and did stupid stuff too?”… and I’d say absolutely I did  … but only due to either sheer dumb luck or odds, i didn’t suffer like this… and for that I’m thankful… sadly these folks didn’t get so lucky. 

 

In this case, for me, the largest blessing here is that these bad decisions largely only impacted those who were direct participants and not totally innocent bystanders.  

 

 

 

1 hour ago, DavisH said:

Blockign a whole lane in peak hour traffic causes chaos. That's why a lot of this kind of roadwork is done at night. 

What a fantastic observation of the obvious..... 

move on ..Nothing new here  same old same old ..Idiots ..pick ups ..death

 

1 hour ago, realfunster said:

I live not far from the ChalermRat expressway, which feeds directly into this elevated expressway to Chonburi.

 

For years, I have heard high powered vehicles tanking it along the expressway in groups. 5-6am on the weekends seems a popular time.

Surprised there hasn't been more incidents like this.

 

Police nowhere to be seen, as usual...

 

At 5 - 6 am, they're not even seen during during daylight hours - so little chance early morning. 

What is lacking here is the planning for the roadworks, illumination of advance matrix  and physical signs and extensive coning off of lanes beforehand to provide safe environments for workers and motorists. 
 

The authorities have to protect even the idiots as far as possible, and it’s just not done. How often do you drive along a major road and see workers collecting trash or clipping trees and bushes protected by one or no cones?

1 hour ago, realfunster said:

I live not far from the ChalermRat expressway, which feeds directly into this elevated expressway to Chonburi.

 

For years, I have heard high powered vehicles tanking it along the expressway in groups. 5-6am on the weekends seems a popular time.

Surprised there hasn't been more incidents like this.

 

Police nowhere to be seen, as usual...

 

That certainly used to be the case. Young kids with fancy cars would meet at the petrol station and food court just after the 10 Baht toll heading north. Now I often see police parked there instead. I can hear them racing when they do, and I'd reckon it is less frequent these days, but not totally gone. Slow steady improvements...

2 hours ago, VinnieK said:

Painting markings in the dead of night.?

Even driving is not advised let alone perform such tasks.

You're right, middle of rush hour is a much better time! NOT!

1 hour ago, ThailandRyan said:

You meant lack of enforcement everyday of the week right?

yes.

49 minutes ago, Artisi said:

What a fantastic observation of the obvious..... 

What a pointless statement to state

4 hours ago, 2baht said:

Who won? ????

Charles Darwin won.

A good open market for anyone with a stock of night vision goggles! But pretty useless if the police are asleep!

2 hours ago, foreverlomsak said:

I've said it before it's too dangerous for the police to be out at night, so they'll be asleep somewhere, also they can't see infractions in daylight so how can you expect the police to see them during the dark.

Or chatting up hookers on the beach and looking for people wanting a relaxing beer

4 hours ago, VinnieK said:

Painting markings in the dead of night.?

Even driving is not advised let alone perform such tasks.

Marking roads at night when no traffic is quite normal. 

The blame rests 100% on the tools racing basic trucks....????

1 hour ago, WHansen said:

What a pointless statement to state

guess your statement has some value, would that be correct?

Ground hog day as macho Thai morons kill eachother with their blind stupidity.  Absolute morons. 

I really hope the Guys doing their Job are all OK