Three dead, one injured in reckless pick-up truck chase in Sadao

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A high-speed pursuit between two pickup trucks ended in tragedy, with three fatalities and one person injured in a multi-vehicle collision in Sadao, Songkhla.

 

The chase culminated in the trucks losing control and colliding, causing a motorcycle and a lorry to also become entangled in the crash. Rescue services rushed to the scene to provide aid last night.

 

The two pickup trucks, engaged in a reckless chase, lost control and collided with each other. The impact propelled one of the trucks into a nearby motorcycle before smashing into the rear of a parked lorry.

 

The pick-up truck, an Isuzu model with registration number กร 4673 from Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, was found to have been modified for racing. The collision left it completely mangled, with three passengers critically injured. Rescue workers struggled to extract the three individuals from the wreckage before rushing them to the hospital.

Close by, a Yamaha Fino motorcycle was discovered severely damaged. Lying unconscious approximately 100 metres away from the motorcycle was its female rider.

 

by Nattapong Westwood

Picture courtesy of KhaoSod

 

Full story: The Thaiger 2023-10-30

 

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[still kicking]

What a country 

[ChipButty]

2 hours ago, still kicking said:

What a country 

Bandit country

[spidermike007]

While the deaths are certainly tragic, especially those not involved, this kind of behavior is beyond the pale. I think perhaps there comes a time and a place where the parents need to be punished for the behavior of their offspring, which they did not bother to impart any valuable lessons to during their upbringing. 

[sammieuk1]

Modified for racing unmodified for stopping all perfectly normal at the wall of death public highway circuit 🤔

[AhFarangJa]

I get unsolicited posts all the time on Farcebook from Thai sites showing dashcam footage of road rage, and racing on the highways. Nearly all the comments on it are laughing, and joking. Absolutely no idea of the dangers.

[hotchilli]

Darwinism actively trying to take-out these idiots from the gene-pool..

unfortunate for the innocent [external] victims

[Mike Lister]

It's not uncommon to see delivery pickups racing against each other, it seems to be boredom combined with low IQ and no enforcement.

[alien365]

So one pickup was modified for racing and couldn't beat the other that was stock? All that black smoke no doubt for nothing. The biggest loser once again though was an innocent on a scooter. 

[Bangkok Barry]

An example of people unable to understand the difference from playing a video game and driving like that in real life? Plenty here seem to drive like that. I was nearly killed outside my house by two pickups racing.

[Peterphuket]

9 hours ago, still kicking said:

What a country 

They are calling it LOS.....

[Liverpool Lou]

9 hours ago, still kicking said:

What a country 

How was "the country" involved in this traffic accident? 

Is the country from where you come not a "what-a-country" place, also, or do accidents never happen there?

[Liverpool Lou]

7 hours ago, ChipButty said:

9 hours ago, still kicking said:

What a country 

Bandit country

How, as a consequence of a road accident, does Thailand become a "bandit country"

[Liverpool Lou]

6 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

While the deaths are certainly tragic, especially those not involved, this kind of behavior is beyond the pale. I think perhaps there comes a time and a place where the parents need to be punished for the behavior of their offspring, which they did not bother to impart any valuable lessons to during their upbringing. 

"...parents need to be punished for the behavior of their offspring..."

Where there children/youngsters involved in this accident whose parents should be held responsible?   When this sort of thing, involving adults, happens in your country (US?) do you call for the same parental responsibility/consequences, or is it just Thais to whom your odd suggestion should apply?

[Liverpool Lou]

6 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

Modified for racing unmodified for stopping all perfectly normal at the wall of death public highway circuit 🤔

What makes you so sure that these vehicles' brakes were not suitably uprated, also, when there is a huge industry for that in Thailand?   And how was the initial collision between the two pickups related to brakes?

[Liverpool Lou]

1 hour ago, Bangkok Barry said:

I was nearly killed outside my house by two pickups racing.

Sorry to read that...how badly hurt were you?

[spidermike007]

10 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

"...parents need to be punished for the behavior of their offspring..."

Where there children/youngsters involved in this accident whose parents should be held responsible?   When this sort of thing, involving adults, happens in your country (US?) do you call for the same parental responsibility/consequences, or is it just Thais to whom your odd suggestion should apply?

Absolutely. The art of parenting has been lost, worldwide.