Three Young Teens Injured in Motorcycle-Truck Collision in Sri Racha

[snoop1130]

 

Three teenagers were injured (two seriously) on Tuesday afternoon in a collision between a motorcycle and a six-wheeled cargo truck in the Sri Racha district of Chonburi province.

 

The incident occurred at approximately 3:40 PM on January 16th at Ban Surasak within the Khao Khansong sub-district, and involved a black Honda Zoomer-X motorcycle and a white Isuzu 6-wheel cargo truck.

 

According to local reports, the motorcycle, driven by a 14-year-old boy (name withheld), lost control at a curve and collided with the truck, which was turning into a company to park. The young rider sustained a broken right leg, loss of consciousness, and bleeding from the ear. His two passengers, both also 14-years-old, also sustained injuries, one with a broken right leg. The three were immediately transported to Laem Chabang Hospital for emergency medical treatment.

 

By Tanakorn Panyadee

Caption: PHOTO: ประชาชาตินิวส์ ทีวี ภูมิภาค

 

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[KannikaP]

13 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

The three were immediately transported to Laem Chabang Hospital for emergency medical treatment.

And after that to the Youth Detention Centre, and their parents to jail for a year!

[peter zwart]

14 year old should ride a bicycle and not a 125 cc......... or more

[KannikaP]

1 hour ago, KannikaP said:

And after that to the Youth Detention Centre, and their parents to jail for a year!

What's confusing about that?

[ikke1959]

Thank you RTP for checking driverslicenses, helmets, and parents for letting kids drive motorcycles... It is not the first time this happens and will not be the last.. as long as everybody doesn't take any responsibility to rescue these kids it will get worse

[Moonlover]

No question that these kids should certainly NOT have been riding on a motorcycle at that age. But looking at the positions of the respective vehicles it does look as if the truck was making a right turn into the yard. Which seems to indicate that the driver turned into the path of the on-coming motorcycle. So I don't think that the truck driver was completely innocent here. In fact it could well have been his fault.

 

[flyingtlger]

7 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Three teenagers were injured (two seriously)

Duhhhh! A motorcycle vs. 6 wheeler? 

I'm surprised any of the kids survived....

[jacko45k]

10 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

Thank you RTP for checking driverslicenses, helmets, and parents for letting kids drive motorcycles... It is not the first time this happens and will not be the last.. as long as everybody doesn't take any responsibility to rescue these kids it will get worse

Haha...it is true the police don't seem to be doing road blocks like they used to years ago.... don't know why. Mind you folks complained about those at the time. the fact they were money grabs, and the police only focused on a particular infringement at a time, or were overly focused on foreigners. There is more traffic now, I see more tourist coaches and HGV vehicles on the Railway Line Bypass, a road I use on my bike to avoid them and the dangers they create for motorcycles. A lot of accidents in the news lately... this lack of policing is letting things deteriorate. 

[hotchilli]

11 hours ago, peter zwart said:

14 year old should ride a bicycle and not a 125 cc......... or more

This is Thailand, they learn to crawl, then walk, skip the bicycle bit and go straight to a wave.

[KannikaP]

12 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

This is Thailand, they learn to crawl, then walk, skip the bicycle bit and go straight to a wave.

What more scary is the number of kids riding electric motor cycles, no helmet, no insurance, and no SOUND, they creep up on you.

[quake]

12 hours ago, peter zwart said:

14 year old should ride a bicycle and not a 125 cc......... or more

 

The young lads up here usually have one kid and an ankle bracelet by that age. 

[quake]

40 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

and no SOUND, they creep up on you.

 

Yes, So do the old grannies and granddads on there electric scooters.

[hotchilli]

1 hour ago, KannikaP said:

What more scary is the number of kids riding electric motor cycles, no helmet, no insurance, and no SOUND, they creep up on you.

Silent little ninjas

[steve187]

12 hours ago, Moonlover said:

No question that these kids should certainly NOT have been riding on a motorcycle at that age. But looking at the positions of the respective vehicles it does look as if the truck was making a right turn into the yard. Which seems to indicate that the driver turned into the path of the on-coming motorcycle. So I don't think that the truck driver was completely innocent here. In fact it could well have been his fault.

 

there appears to me to be a clear view to the lorry to stop in plenty of time if paying attention or not driving too fast, the opening post says ''the motorcycle, driven by a 14-year-old boy, lost control at a curve and collided with the truck'' so maybe a bend prevented the lorry driver seeing anything coming when he started the turn. as to the bike, he should have been driving at a speed where it is safe to stop in the distance that you can see to be clear

[Mr Meeseeks]

Hard to assign blame, as a lack of competence is across the board here.

 

They don't know about right of way and that is often where the problems begin.

[Bangkok Barry]

16 hours ago, Moonlover said:

No question that these kids should certainly NOT have been riding on a motorcycle at that age. But looking at the positions of the respective vehicles it does look as if the truck was making a right turn into the yard. Which seems to indicate that the driver turned into the path of the on-coming motorcycle. So I don't think that the truck driver was completely innocent here. In fact it could well have been his fault.

 

 

Or maybe they were coming towards him driving on the right and he swerved to avoid them? Hmm? 

[Liverpool Lou]

4 hours ago, steve187 said:

he should have been driving at a speed where it is safe to stop in the distance that you can see to be clear

Not everyone is as much of a personification of perfection as you are.

 

The 14-year old boys on a motorbike should not have been there at all but certainly should have been riding in a manner that did not cause the bike to lose control on the bend!

[steve187]

1 hour ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Not everyone is as much of a personification of perfection as you are.

 

The 14-year old boys on a motorbike should not have been there at all but certainly should have been riding in a manner that did not cause the bike to lose control on the bend!

there is only one way to drive, that's the correct way

[Liverpool Lou]

6 hours ago, steve187 said:

7 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Not everyone is as much of a personification of perfection as you are.

 

The 14-year old boys on a motorbike should not have been there at all but certainly should have been riding in a manner that did not cause the bike to lose control on the bend!

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there is only one way to drive, that's the correct way

You're right but to bang on about it, righteously, suggests that you have only ever driven the "correct way".  Is that right, you have never, ever, deviated from the "correct way" and have never put a foot wrong?  If you haven't, even though you may not have been involved in a fatal, you need to pull your neck in but the truthful answer is obvious.