Picture: Siam Rath

 

Extraordinary footage - even by Thai driving standards - was recorded at a T-junction in Suphanburi yesterday evening from two angles.

 

An 18 wheel truck laden with water was going towards U-Thong district when it failed to stop in time at lights turning red.

 

A six wheel truck pulled out after getting a green light and was very close to colliding.

 

The driver of the water truck managed to swerve then miss other cars waiting on the other side of the road.

One car managed to back up to avoid a collision.

 

The truck mounted the central kerb before coming to a halt on the right side of the road again.

 

Many people in both the trucks and cars at the lights could have been injured or even killed.

 

There was only damage to the truck's tires and water containers all over the road, that helpful locals were seen clearing up, reported Siam Rath. 

 

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Always check before you go at traffic lights! Green does NOT means it's all clear. Very lucky all round here.

1 hour ago, Moonlover said:

Always check before you go at traffic lights! Green does NOT means it's all clear. Very lucky all round here.

agree.... majority of Thais are color blind, thus better safer then sorry

No Thai is ever to blame.

Quick thing by the driver of the  white car ... let's get outta here

31 minutes ago, Mavideol said:

agree.... majority of Thais are color blind, thus better safer then sorry

Are they really? I just thought they couldn't be bothered to stop, I see many large 6 wheelers going through red lights tooting there horn, is it to warn other road users that there colour blind & there not stopping? 

Years ago I was on the route 32 heading north at Manorom and the lights went red, so I stopped in the right lane,

 

It was lucky that I was in that lane as two loaded truck/trailers went through without even slowing down. Even more lucky were the cars coming from the right to cross in front of me as they were able to stop in time.

 

I think that if I were in the centre or left lane I would have been flattened.

 

Probably 100B fine for everybody.

That will teach them to be more careful next time. ????

 

26 minutes ago, Bazerino said:

Are they really? I just thought they couldn't be bothered to stop, I see many large 6 wheelers going through red lights tooting there horn, is it to warn other road users that there colour blind & there not stopping? 

Went to renew my 5 year licence and half of the 15 people with me got the red, amber and green colours wrong. 

The road isn’t wet so there goes that excuse.  Must have to go with brake failure then.  

5 hours ago, billd766 said:

Years ago I was on the route 32 heading north at Manorom and the lights went red, so I stopped in the right lane,

 

It was lucky that I was in that lane as two loaded truck/trailers went through without even slowing down. Even more lucky were the cars coming from the right to cross in front of me as they were able to stop in time.

 

I think that if I were in the centre or left lane I would have been flattened.

 

I had the same exact thing happen to me about 7 years ago too.  I was left feeling if I had been in the left lane I would have been flattened. 

Business guy has a orange cone handy as I'm sure there are many accidents.  Plus the first guy come out to grab 2 cartoons of product that spilled.  

I would hardly call that "extraordinary" video.  It looks just like regular everyday video to me.

That water truck was tanking along... no chance of stopping.

That's a big load of Happy Water.

Looks like some vultures swooped in for the roadkill in record time at the end of the video ????

19 hours ago, webfact said:

Many people in both the trucks and cars at the lights could have been injured or even killed.

You can just PIN this sentence to the top of almost every single article.   Every second here this is probably true somewhere.  and not just LOS!!!  lol

22 hours ago, carlyai said:

Went to renew my 5 year licence and half of the 15 people with me got the red, amber and green colours wrong. 

Did they fail to get their license renewed? Another thing, and this does not apply only to Thailand. Nobody should be allowed to test anyones eyesight except qualified opticians.

Wow! Glad everyone was safe… 

16 hours ago, possum1931 said:

Did they fail to get their license renewed? Another thing, and this does not apply only to Thailand. Nobody should be allowed to test anyones eyesight except qualified opticians.

No. They were critcised by the tester and encouraged by other people in the line.

Was a simple test, tester pointed to Red, Amber or Green and you had to say the colour. 

Maybe they were shy, tester pointing to Red and the person saying Green. So many of them, hard to understand.

2 hours ago, carlyai said:

No. They were critcised by the tester and encouraged by other people in the line.

Was a simple test, tester pointed to Red, Amber or Green and you had to say the colour. 

Maybe they were shy, tester pointing to Red and the person saying Green. So many of them, hard to understand.

The point I am making is that the only people who are qualified to test anyone's eyesight properly are opticians.

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