One of the most epic crash videos I've seen so far

[NorthernRyland]

This one is intense, maybe the best I've seen so far. Very well captured and it illustrates perfectly why Thailand is a horrible country to drive in. Amazingly only the driver of the offending car was injured. 

 

There's a lesson here too. We see these kinds of recklessness drivers everyday in Thailand and obviously the useless police will do nothing about them. Since the drivers are too stupid to understand risks and think two steps ahead it's only a matter of time until their magic amulet fails them and they make a move this like. A ticking time bomb waiting to explode. It's all so tiresome.

 

 

[connda]

Saw it on FB.  It shows a number of typical Thai driving antics that lead to accidents.

Slow truck in the right (fast) lane which won't move left.  Hyper-aggressive drivers.  Road rage.  Complete inability to read the road ahead of your own vehicle...
And - BAM.  It could have been worse. 

[connda]

39 minutes ago, NorthernRyland said:

There's a lesson here too. We see these kinds of recklessness drivers everyday in Thailand and obviously the useless police will do nothing about them.

Thai "highway patrol" are for escorting VIPs, not for pulling drivers over and citing them for moving violation which is unheard of here.  And if anything?  The cops drive just as bad.

[Denim]

Love to hear the excuse of the dickwad who caused this.

 

Brakes ?

[ABCDBKK]

1 hour ago, NorthernRyland said:

until their magic amulet fails them and they make a move this like. A ticking time bomb waiting to explode. It's all so tiresome.

Are you kidding me, the amulets worked! They saved everyone. Nobody died! Imagine the carnage without the all powerful amulets???

[OneMoreFarang]

17 minutes ago, Denim said:

Love to hear the excuse of the dickwad who caused this.

 

Brakes ?

Obviously the truck driver should have seen him and move out of the way. Isn't that obvious? 

[alien365]

That's a big one. Fortunately all of the innocent ones are okay. I couldn't give a fig about the driver who caused it though. There's simply no excuse for that. 

[it is what it is]

you're just driving along, minding your own business, then suddenly there's carnage. very scary.

[ABCDBKK]

1 hour ago, NorthernRyland said:

We see these kinds of recklessness drivers everyday in Thailand and obviously the useless police will do nothing about them.

Good on them. Nothing wrong with a bit of healthy Darwinism. Thinning out the heard. FAFO innit. 

[ABCDBKK]

5 minutes ago, it is what it is said:

you're just driving along, minding your own business, then suddenly there's carnage. very scary.

Fun, fun, fun. Everyone commenting got a thrill out of this video. Otherwise just another boring Sunday. 

[NorthernRyland]

16 minutes ago, alien365 said:

That's a big one. Fortunately all of the innocent ones are okay. I couldn't give a fig about the driver who caused it though. There's simply no excuse for that. 

My thoughts exactly. I was devastated to learn the driver in the black car survived.

[BangkokReady]

Absolutely insane.  Driving ridiculously fast was the main cause.  Whatever they planned and whatever might have changed on the road (e.g. the white SUV might have pulled into the middle lane), they were driving too fast to make any kind of adjustment.

 

Getting shredded between two vehicles is actually one of the more common videos seen on Facebook.  Leaving it too late to overtake and going too fast to slowdown and alter course.

 

Driving so fast that the slightest error or hazard would mean a massive collision seems like a standard and fun thing for a lot of Thai drivers.  It's not particularly surprising that we see so many incidents like this.

Edited April 7 by BangkokReady

[rattlesnake]

As much as I agree people drive terribly here, this is a couple of notches above average. If I had a guess, I would say he must have been sky-high on yaba to actually attempt to do that and expect it to work.

[Kinnock]

We see this slalom driving style on Expressways every day ..... there's always the d!ck swapping lanes at the last second to weave through the other vehicles.  And with the poor lane discipline by HGV's this type of accident is inevitable.

 

The only surprise was that it was a black Toyota C-HR and not a silver Toyota minibus.

[ABCDBKK]

11 minutes ago, rattlesnake said:

As much as I agree people drive terribly here, this is a couple of notches above average. If I had a guess, I would say he must have been sky-high on yaba to actually attempt to do that and expect it to work.

Naah, in the LOS they don’t even need to be on drugs to pull a stunt like that. They pull that sh*t just on Som Tam power alone. 

[spidermike007]

Certain an absolutely ignorant move. Why such recklessness? It's likely he had family members in his car.

 

Is he really in that much of a hurry?

 

Is this just a man who simply has no control over his own nature, no ability to deal with his impatience, no capability of taking a couple deep breaths and saying I don't want to take that risk, I really don't want to eliminate my family today. I think I want to continue living my life, which is pretty good. Let me just be slightly careful and not do something of a historically ignorant, careless and mindlessly stupid nature. 

[Martin71]

What a massive c#!@...

[spidermike007]

2 hours ago, connda said:

Thai "highway patrol" are for escorting VIPs, not for pulling drivers over and citing them for moving violation which is unheard of here.  And if anything?  The cops drive just as bad.

Exactly correct, and the truly terrible aspect of that is that it means there's no deterrent, so there's nothing holding drivers back from pulling incredibly ignorance stunts like this one. No fear of repercussions, no fear of losing your license, no fear of massive fines for reckless driving. Thailand  is truly one of the most lawless nations in the world, when it comes to the highways, and it's a boil on the face of the nation. 

[josephbloggs]

When I first moved here in 1995 a group of people from the company I worked at took for me a seafood dinner. I didn't understand where it was back then as I had been here a week but it was out of town. Samut Sakhon is my best guess now, but could have been anywhere. The guy drove like a lunatic: speeding, tail gating, dangerously swerving in and out of traffic, I was absolutely terrified. Could easily have ended like this video.

Like others have said I am glad no one else was seriously hurt but would not have shed any tears if the errant driver had a nasty and terrifying end. So lucky that the lorry that crossed to the opposite side wasn't smashed in to, by oncoming vehicles so so lucky.

I have a lot of tolerance for the things that happen here, but not for idiots on the road - I wish them all harm.

Edited April 7 by josephbloggs

[spidermike007]

1 hour ago, BangkokReady said:

Absolutely insane.  Driving ridiculously fast was the main cause.  Whatever they planned and whatever might have changed on the road (e.g. the white SUV might have pulled into the middle lane), they were driving too fast to make any kind of adjustment.

 

Getting shredded between two vehicles is actually one of the more common videos seen on Facebook.  Leaving it too late to overtake and going too fast to slowdown and alter course.

 

Driving so fast that the slightest error or hazard would mean a massive collision seems like a standard and fun thing for a lot of Thai drivers.  It's not particularly surprising that we see so many incidents like this.

I guess the big question is where does that kind of behavior come from? Is it just an inability to practice vision to look a few seconds into the future? Is it an inability to ponder the ramifications of ridiculous behavior, and the tragic consequences that can have on you, your family and all the drivers surrounding you? I put a lot of the blame for this on the tiny shoulders of the pathetic highway patrol, and their bizarre unwillingness to patrol the highways, look for reckless drivers and provide a deterrent to the nation. 

 

What is the story with this kind of behavior, any insights would be appreciated because it's beyond mysterious. 

[Martin71]

The thing is in a couple of days he will get a loan, a new car and bob's you're uncle... back on the roads again.....

[rattlesnake]

17 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

I guess the big question is where does that kind of behavior come from? Is it just an inability to practice vision to look a few seconds into the future? Is it an inability to ponder the ramifications of ridiculous behavior, and the tragic consequences that can have on you, your family and all the drivers surrounding you? I put a lot of the blame for this on the tiny shoulders of the pathetic highway patrol, and their bizarre unwillingness to patrol the highways, look for reckless drivers and provide a deterrent to the nation. 

 

What is the story with this kind of behavior, any insights would be appreciated because it's beyond mysterious. 

 

I have clocked a good couple of hundred thousand km on roads here and I am used to seeing morons recklessly swerving between cars (the worst, in my experience, being the motorway between Bangkok and Pattaya), but as I stated above, this is above average, it's plain crazy, literally. It's not like there was an unexpected change to the environment, the SUV and the truck were consistently on their lanes and he still attempted the impossible without even braking. He was probably off his head on drugs, and I wouldn't be surprised if he was also addicted to video games (i.e. he forgot this was real life, not Need for Speed).

[alien365]

2 hours ago, NorthernRyland said:

My thoughts exactly. I was devastated to learn the driver in the black car survived.

By not caring in the slightest about him, I cannot wish death upon him. But if he dies, I care not one iota. 

[mania]

While living  there the worse for us was when doing those long drives cars would pass us using the oncoming lane in the mountains....while entering a blind turn! It was like Russian roulette we were all forced to play with no option at that point.

[alien365]

2 hours ago, ABCDBKK said:

Fun, fun, fun. Everyone commenting got a thrill out of this video. Otherwise just another boring Sunday. 

A thrill? Seeing random people being taken out is not a thrill. It reinforces how dangerous the roads are here and I feel fortunate that I was not in that mux/ fortuner. I am also glad that 18 wheeler was OK as that could have become really ugly on the other side. 

[SAFETY FIRST]

6 hours ago, NorthernRyland said:

Amazingly only the driver of the offending car was injured.

Poor guy, on his way for a job interview. 

That's his resume scattered all over the highway. 📄

 

 

[scubascuba3]

If the lorry in the right lane had been in the correct slower lane then the accident wouldn't of happened. Not unusual to see left hand overtaking

[Ralf001]

7 hours ago, connda said:

Thai "highway patrol" are for escorting VIPs, not for pulling drivers over and citing them for moving violation which is unheard of here.  And if anything?  The cops drive just as bad.

 

I commute daily to and from work 80km each way on the 7 motorway.

The police are very active pulling over cars/trucks/pickups.

[ABCDBKK]

3 hours ago, alien365 said:

A thrill? Seeing random people being taken out is not a thrill. It reinforces how dangerous the roads are here and I feel fortunate that I was not in that mux/ fortuner. I am also glad that 18 wheeler was OK as that could have become really ugly on the other side. 

The reason I made some sarcastic posts earlier in this topic is because this is nothing unique to Thailand and yet people are getting so fired up about that video. For at least 40 years people have been dying on the roads in Thailand at a rate of about 22,000 a year, or about 60 per day. I've seen lots of carnage on the roads in Thailand myself and some with very large blood smears on the road that were far worse than all the flying metal seen in this video. Everybody watching this is gushing over this crash as if it's unique when in fact the average is that one person dies on the roads in Thailand every half hour of the entire day. Sure, this is another bad wreck, but nobody died and most people don't get a front row seat like this so suddenly they are acting astonished at the carnage on the roads in Thailand. Yes, I would love for Thailand not to be the country with the greatest number of road deaths in the world per year (only second to Libya), but nothing is going to change and unfortunately it will continue to go on and on. A sad, but now accepted reality. 

[Rampant Rabbit]

7 hours ago, BangkokReady said:

Driving ridiculously fast

for the condions