Video: Thai Road Rage! Woman threatened with a gun for hogging the right lane

[webfact]

 

A shocking video showed what happened on a road in Southern Thailand when a female motorist was threatened with a gun.

 

Dash cam footage showed a man in a pick-up lower his window and wave a gun at the female driver.

 

He was angry that she was hogging the right lane on a two lane road.

 

He pulled across and cut her off before getting out with a fellow male passenger following in his wake.

 

The lady pleaded for her life as she apologized before the men drove off.

 

She then went straight to the Bang Klam police with her dashcam evidence.

 

Netizens commented in large numbers.

 

It happened on the Asian Highway at 9.30 am on Saturday in the Tha Chang sub-district of Songkhla province, reported Daily News.

 

The lady told the media she was terrified. She was driving with her husband and they were on their way from Phatthalung to Hat Yai.

 

She said there had been an accident before and she was in the right lane on the clear road and was unaware that someone was trying to pass her.

 

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[KannikaP]

9 minutes ago, webfact said:

and was unaware that someone was trying to pass her.

Well she should have been. No use of mirrors?

Edited March 21, 2023 by KannikaP

[ChaiyaTH]

I can get his frustration, there is nothing more annoying than drivers who not stay LEFT orientated on the roads, while driving slow. I really do not get this, specially with motorbikes driving on the middle or right side of the lane. And then worse, they not even notice you.

 

I sometime take them over from nearby, driving fast, and then crossing back LEFT aligned on the lane, just hoping them to get the point.

 

Edited March 21, 2023 by ChaiyaTH

[kotsak]

25 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

Well she should have been. No use of mirrors?

She is not alone, seems the majority of drivers here don't even know their cars are equiped with rearview mirrors. 

[scottiejohn]

1 minute ago, kotsak said:

She is not alone, seems the majority of drivers here don't even know their cars are equiped with rearview mirrors. 

Is the "rearview" mirror the same as the makeup mirror?

[brianthainess]

2 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

Is the "rearview" mirror the same as the makeup mirror?

No that's on the sun visor, can't use the rear view to many things hanging from it. 

[dcalaska]

Thais love to drive on the right side. I see this every day. No big deal, just go around them.

[robblok]

So many complaints about people hogging the lane but nobody says anything about the complete over reaction of pulling a gun on the lady. Sure its annoying but hardly worth getting a gun pulled out on her.

[JeffersLos]

5 minutes ago, dcalaska said:

Thais love to drive on the right side.

Given the condition of the left hand lanes due to overloaded trucks on the half melted asphalt, idiots pulling out of little lanes without looking, and old women doing 10kph on their 30 year old waves, it's easy to see why. 

[realfunster]

Doing God's own work.

 

I hate those right lane hoggers. 

[realfunster]

29 minutes ago, ChaiyaTH said:

I can get his frustration, there is nothing more annoying than drivers who not stay LEFT orientated on the roads, while driving slow. I really do not get this, specially with motorbikes driving on the middle or right side of the lane. And then worse, they not even notice you.

 

I sometime take them over from nearby, driving fast, and then crossing back LEFT aligned on the lane, just hoping them to get the point.

 

Ha ha ! Yes, I like to do that as well once my overtaking is complete and the road is clear ahead and see if they get the hint you can move over if your path is clear.

 

To be fair, most people are pretty decent on this but you do get the occasional mong just cruising along the highway at 80km without a care in the world as dozens of cars have to take evasive undertaking action. Quite how their brains don't register that something is not quite right, I don't know. 

 

[huangnon]

34 minutes ago, kotsak said:

She is not alone, seems the majority of drivers here don't even know their cars are equiped with rearview mirrors. 

Not much use when the rear windscreen is stuffed full with teddy bears.. ????

 

Bit of an overreaction by yet another gun-toting mummy's boy with the emotional development of a 7 yo.

[Eloquent pilgrim]

The guy has obviously overreacted big time and needs to be arrested and charged; however, the woman is symbolic of the millions of Thai drivers that have created a culture of undertaking on 2 and 3 lane roads. This culture has ensured that quite often the inside (nearside) lane has the fastest moving traffic, causing countless collisions with vehicles emerging from side roads.

[NanLaew]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

she was in the right lane on the clear road and was unaware that someone was trying to pass her

And that folks, is the end of the story.

 

25 minutes ago, robblok said:

So many complaints about people hogging the lane but nobody says anything about the complete over reaction of pulling a gun on the lady. Sure its annoying but hardly worth getting a gun pulled out on her.

Don't knock it until you've tried it.

[worgeordie]

She's one that will be using the left lane only from now on , you can flash your lights

they don't shift ,just in their own little World . mirrors , turn signals we don't need them.

 

regards worgeordie

[markclover]

Another day of:  Lets take a look the serial numbers on the gun.

[NanLaew]

12 minutes ago, Eloquent pilgrim said:

The guy has obviously overreacted big time and needs to be arrested and charged; however, the woman is symbolic of the millions of Thai drivers that have created a culture of undertaking on 2 and 3 lane roads. This culture has ensured that quite often the inside (nearside) lane has the fastest moving traffic, causing countless collisions with vehicles emerging from side roads.

Hence the flourishing undertaker's business.

[ezzra]

Seriously? pull a gun on someone you cannot pass on the road? what about the left lane. was it blocked too? what's next, pull a gun on someone with too many groceries in a supermarket checkout line?

these types of hot-headed drivers should not be on the roads period!

Edited March 21, 2023 by ezzra

[alien365]

52 minutes ago, dcalaska said:

Thais love to drive on the right side. I see this every day. No big deal, just go around them.

Not so easy when many of these right lane hoggers decide to travel the same speed as the car/truck to the left of them creating a lot of angry drivers like me behind. 

[alien365]

I wonder how many right lane hoggers these guys had faced in the day before this incident. I feel like doing the same sometimes having to pass over a hundred of these people every time I go on a longer journey. 

[NanLaew]

3 minutes ago, alien365 said:

I wonder how many right lane hoggers these guys had faced in the day before this incident. I feel like doing the same sometimes having to pass over a hundred of these people every time I go on a longer journey. 

And you claim to be coming in peace?

[sleepwalker999]

1 hour ago, KannikaP said:

Well she should have been. No use of mirrors?

That's it, blame the victim. Because pulling a gun on someone is very reasonable behaviour. 

 

Big tip - there's a thing on the steering wheel that makes a noise when you press it, maybe the lovely bloke with the gun could try it. 

Edited March 21, 2023 by sleepwalker999

[IvorBiggun2]

30 minutes ago, ezzra said:

these types of hot-headed drivers should not be on the roads period!

And neither those that hog the outside lane.

[connda]

Maybe she won't "hog the right-hand lane now."  Mission accomplished.

[OneMoreFarang]

1 hour ago, ChaiyaTH said:

I can get his frustration, there is nothing more annoying than drivers who not stay LEFT orientated on the roads, while driving slow. I really do not get this, specially with motorbikes driving on the middle or right side of the lane. And then worse, they not even notice you.

 

I sometime take them over from nearby, driving fast, and then crossing back LEFT aligned on the lane, just hoping them to get the point.

 

You don't get the part that they just don't care. They drive where they want and don't give a f#$# about anybody else.

Obviously that is no reason to shoot her. But hopefully she will remember this for her next time on the road. 

[connda]

51 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

She's one that will be using the left lane only from now on , you can flash your lights

they don't shift ,just in their own little World . mirrors , turn signals we don't need them.

 

regards worgeordie

Thais will pull into the right-hand lane and drive 45 kph to make a right-hand turn at a "U-Turn Of Death" that is 5 kilometers up the road.

[IvorBiggun2]

5 minutes ago, sleepwalker999 said:

Big tip - there's a thing on the steering wheel that makes a noise when you press it, maybe the lovely bloke with the gun could try it. 

It's illegal to sound your horn

• Cars and motorcycles can use the horn only when avoiding danger or accidents. (Fine not exceeding 500 baht).

[simon43]

I recall about 20 years ago a Thai guy pulling a gun on me as he was trying to cross from the left to the outside lane to do a u-turn (I was in the middle lane).

 

Being stoically British, I just assumed that it was normal Thai driver behaviour....

[Hamus Yaigh]

The bizarre thing is, having driven in southern Thailand for many years, hogging the right hand lane seems the norm anyway. Especially pick up drivers carrying local produce, they never use the left lane. I think it has something to do with the surface quality in places where heavy trucks using the left lanes can leave pot holes. The gun toting hot head needs punishing for complete OTT reaction.

Edited March 21, 2023 by Hamus Yaigh

[Henryford]

1 hour ago, ezzra said:

Seriously? pull a gun on someone you cannot pass on the road? what about the left lane. was it blocked too? what's next, pull a gun on someone with too many groceries in a supermarket checkout line?

these types of hot-headed drivers should not be on the roads period!

One guy treatened to shoot me because i beeped my horn at him. Some Thais are seriously unbalanced.