Harrowing traffic accident in Kamphaeng Phet sees 4-vehicle collision (video)

[webfact]

 

The roads of Kamphaeng Phet became a scene of chaos following a shocking accident that involved a red Isuzu pickup truck, another Isuzu D-Max pickup truck, and two motorbikes. The police and volunteers headed to the site, Ta Makuea, for immediate investigation and rescue.

 

Eyewitness reports detail a disastrous traffic incident across Lan 1084 Te Makuea – Kamphaeng Phet. A red Isuzu pickup truck, driven by a 64 year old individual named Sompong, lost control while trying to avoid responding to a motorbike cutting across the lane.

 

The sudden reaction triggered a multi-vehicle collision involving another Isuzu D-Max pickup truck driven by 40 year old Pichet, and a motorbike ridden by 79 year old Duang, scattering debris across the roadway.

 

Additionally, a Honda Sonic motorbike, driven by Sahas, a 34 year old local, was also caught in the calamity. He suffered injuries to his right elbow and knee. Two individuals were critically injured in the incident: Duang, whose leg was severely twisted, and Sompong’s wife, who sustained a serious head injury.

 

The timely intervention of the rescue services led to their immediate transportation to the nearby Khlong Khlung Hospital, reported KhaoSod.

 

by Nattapong Westwood

Picture courtesy of เหยี่ยวดำนิวส์ ข่าวจริงเพื่อสังคมไทย Facebook.

 

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[JoePai]

Part of the 'cut and shut' process ?

[roo860]

Bell end motorcyclist.

[Gottfrid]

Totally avoidable accident! Just seems like no one is looking. The pick-up driver do not see the motorbike, and the motorbike rider does not see the cars coming. Also the pick-up driver makes a stressed panic maneuver. He should be more aware, as should the bike rider, and slow down and sliding over to the left.

[Bepah umayun]

I enjoyed the music, makes it less real. ????

[hotchilli]

2 hours ago, roo860 said:

Bell end motorcyclist.

Say that again... 

[essex boys]

Motor bikes just don’t bother looking, looks like the pick up driver never even braked and why swerve into oncoming traffic? Road awareness here is dismal, I like the people driving around the accident, nobody stops to try and help….

[giddyup]

It seems to me, after watching the many dashcams showing accidents on Thai morning news, that 90% of these accidents are caused by motorbikes not paying attention.

[ignore it]

Epic video.

[Purdey]

Harrowing?

 

Nice to see The Thaiger expanding its vocabulary.

[kennw]

2 hours ago, Gottfrid said:

Totally avoidable accident! Just seems like no one is looking. The pick-up driver do not see the motorbike, and the motorbike rider does not see the cars coming. Also the pick-up driver makes a stressed panic maneuver. He should be more aware, as should the bike rider, and slow down and sliding over to the left.

Motorbike crossing the road across double lines 90 degrees to traffic flow total idiot Som nam na. Hope the other victims were not badly hurt

[NorthernRyland]

The motorbike is using a common strategy for crossing the road in Thailand where they inch out into traffic and let the oncoming traffic avoid them. This is also the same technique dogs use (sneaky and no one will notice!) and is the concept behind the classic arcade game Frogger.

[tgw]

2 hours ago, Gottfrid said:

Totally avoidable accident! Just seems like no one is looking. The pick-up driver do not see the motorbike, and the motorbike rider does not see the cars coming. Also the pick-up driver makes a stressed panic maneuver. He should be more aware, as should the bike rider, and slow down and sliding over to the left.

wrong.

they see them, they are just too lazy to drive properly.

all starts with that motorcycle driver crossing the road like a compleat fool, counting on cars to avoid him.

this is very common in Thailand, sometimes they don't even bother looking before turning on a road.

I guess the red pickup driver expected the motorcycle to stop on that white crisscross line to let priority traffic pass, but then it doesn't and the red pickup trying to avoid the motorcycle at the last minute then causes the rest of the mayhem. should not have tried to avoid the motorcycle.

 

one day I was waiting at a T-intersection for a safe opportunity to turn onto the main road, when on my right a Thai guy with a sidecar stopped too and waited. he looked directly at an oncoming car (like 50-60 meters away) and then he took off, the collision was unavoidable. I couldn't believe my eyes.

Edited July 4, 2023 by tgw

[phetpeter]

The Red pickup, certainly seems to be a cut and shut, plus there was no braking on the front wheels that I could see because the removal of the back part is super clean. Luckly for both drivers. still a few tack wields and it will be back on the road, next week. But I bet there is only one truck with full insurance! So whos going to pay?

Edited July 4, 2023 by phetpeter

[Chongalulu]

37 minutes ago, tgw said:

one day I was waiting at a T-intersection for a safe opportunity to turn onto the main road, when on my right a Thai guy with a sidecar stopped too and waited. he looked directly at an oncoming car (like 50-60 meters away) and then he took off, the collision was unavoidable. I couldn't believe my eyes.

I've finally concluded that there's either a genetic flaw in the spacial awareness make up ,or else the "thick gene ????”. The two are not mutually exclusive as two of the drivers here have demonstrated...

[Liverpool Lou]

1 hour ago, essex boys said:

Motor bikes just don’t bother looking, looks like the pick up driver never even braked and why swerve into oncoming traffic? Road awareness here is dismal, I like the people driving around the accident, nobody stops to try and help….

The smoking tyre of the locked right rear wheel of the red pickup indicates that it was braking hard immediately before a sharp right hand bend in the road, that is why the pickup headed  to the right.

 

One bike stops and one bike and one car passes the accident, no other vehicles go past the scene in the 23 seconds after the impact that you were able to view.  What makes you think that no one had stopped to help. out of the camera's range. in the less than 30 seconds after the collision?

Edited July 4, 2023 by Liverpool Lou

[Liverpool Lou]

55 minutes ago, tgw said:

like a compleat fool,

The irony!

[CLW]

Kudos to the driver of the silver Toyota CHR that drives through the accident scenes as nothing would have happened. In other civilized countries that would mean a hefty fine, if not suspended jail and for sure not having your drivers license for a long time. But here, business as usual....

 

Edit: Thairath TV even managed to get the dashcam footage of the silver Toyota CHR

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=295661972939995&__ft__=AZWZA4ieXpIs2RTvpdg8NDvvFsM54lEYzpdIHQgP8gXIwZRy9O7co4MudB4_Ipf7pDROtnomQbTTlWWg3GIJNwANmH9JM16hmTArRgus_zd5sxbW-2zEDOY9NgSamPAaRxB09jVGuqxCP0tKCI8zzTEKhXBWJpGpS5SRTsgF72BA8sJcQ_7GbfnlFUHcG279PR50gnYrgBTdRzlQWiiz63sE_O_KoSMR3ZOGAWAZsw-UyUJn4XrWqxEajIlQaJp1fqw5UmtBOAdJnU5-CmlOlKK_62qTVgUJ9JVBtDGyi8iyCPb-1mcOtW-kJBjXO5IYqT8u9Iyv5FHzaX61Ch_JOGm9hE4_SqkHfn-qDq_IrPY36uJPcXrZxLDzTHa8fgclruY478Qvq_A7q1q9UQaKeKGqp1cXwFuOs5dTbS6GBiMhIlMA2wcqrkoULWjArntiH5KX-esjjhce93zCB6xDe6ULIf8IwJprl1b7hS9Dn6DyalScHjj1NRz5xQECg5DRcxTAyCkJttQVxo9zfgcCBHx7OQxVg8FJ9PhXKz7oZKVMRCkH1bcz74YflkROsSVxNP3JAW-xrxmRxQZcSywh2o3DyaNkVYoKtdRc93pjw5B4PZi-G3v6mWYulliAqT7Sf8klFEMBEbtb-4vfhPG09ieiMprN0sy9LVzXlXjEI75q6s8Tf2wRP-eaF9Fs3jaK6GWYgzSmueeUMaHQi_68BdFOxe5n_I-TafsCVZNrmU7cPE-xPJGTkOHyT9ZSVETstmHzfXEJgYVFTj607KDvV9TWZjm53fJebW4G6FKl_rVDWMw5l0nPpze_FuuuBUviU8TSL3nHJIrr7-dIMLHp5DrpLFLfcJW9CgR4Zz6EU9ISpndSNBIRxOqCWf6s9tW8EMHJ4KQZkJufgPY8KGb2Iqf_ZrX32-FT7QMTedNpogguw4uxARtNuCs1x-UCFmWqlrq7hUExfHmIhvmHw48v-MHrN-mZE6CiT-j6PFDeCxX2cpapHk1QrF4hZnwXbw0DF4k4fJDCXUcm6ld2LoK1TcYCgPEJB2jOAIcY7ddn_n5X0Q&ref=external

Edited July 4, 2023 by CLW
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[Liverpool Lou]

21 minutes ago, CLW said:

Kudos to the driver of the silver Toyota CHR that drives through the accident scenes as nothing would have happened. In other civilized countries that would mean a hefty fine, if not suspended jail and for sure not having your drivers license for a long time

"In other civilized countries that would mean a hefty fine, if not suspended jail and for sure not having your drivers license for a long time"

Really?  Which countries would those be?

[LukKrueng]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

involved a red Isuzu pickup truck, another Isuzu D-Max pickup truck, and two motorbikes

It must be the red Isuzu fault. Otherwise they wouldn't have single it out and naming its colour!

[tgw]

45 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

The irony!

????

it worked !

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/compleat

????

Edited July 4, 2023 by tgw

[stix40]

Judging by the state of the pickup truck ????

Probably has stopping distance of 1 mile combined with driver having  reaction time similar to a sloth, so motorbike had no chance.

Motorbike rider daa mi Dee , bloody lucky he has not met the maker !

[Srikcir]

4 hours ago, Gottfrid said:

Totally avoidable accident! Just seems like no one is looking. The pick-up driver do not see the motorbike, and the motorbike rider does not see the cars coming. Also the pick-up driver makes a stressed panic maneuver. He should be more aware, as should the bike rider, and slow down and sliding over to the left.

Pick-up driver had clear view of the two lanes to his left side to see the motor bike crossing lanes. May be a question of the truck speeding and driver inattention.

 

The highway design itself seems potentially flawed as well as possibly too broad (six lanes?) For any cross- access, no easy access for anyone on the left street side to safely enter traffic going the opposite direction to the lanes on the right side of the highway and having to cross three lanes with traffic moving broadside on the left side of the highway.

[Ginner]

5 hours ago, Gottfrid said:

Totally avoidable accident! Just seems like no one is looking. The pick-up driver do not see the motorbike, and the motorbike rider does not see the cars coming. Also the pick-up driver makes a stressed panic maneuver. He should be more aware, as should the bike rider, and slow down and sliding over to the left.

Looks to me, no matter where the red pickup went, the motorbike rider was determined to go in front of it.

[The Theory]

Motorcycle rider on a suicide mission !!!! I see it everyday, but they just get away with that. ????

[Leadidge]

Who writes this rubbish? The red Isuzu didn’t lose control. He deliberately tried to avoid the motorbike. He was in control until the collision! There was only one bike involved. No other bike was caught up in the ‘clamaity’.

[BangkokReady]

4 hours ago, essex boys said:

Motor bikes just don’t bother looking, looks like the pick up driver never even braked and why swerve into oncoming traffic?

It's weird.  I guess an instinct.  I'm not sure about the law, but when people swerve to avoid a recklessly driven motorcycle and hit an object or another car, it just seems like they're endangering themselves and others in order to protect the reckless motorcycle rider.  Slamming on the breaks seems like the best idea.

 

Edit: After watching the video a number of times, it appears that he brakes hard and one of the wheels locks up.  He skids into the oncoming traffic, rather than steering.

Edited July 4, 2023 by BangkokReady

[Bangkok Barry]

Several months ago my sister-in-law experienced a very similar brain-dead motorcyclist event, when an elderly woman was crossing a busy road to the other side and thought it was okay just to look one way when doing so. It wasn't, and she died. CCTV showed my sister-in-law was not to blame. You just can't help these people.

[RichardColeman]

ONly harrowing thing in this is the driver at the end that just drives around the accident !

[Dexxter]

I only saw ONE bike and two vehicles. What/where was the 4th one involved in the accident?