University Student Dies After Collision with Truck in Chonburi

[Georgealbert]

 

 

An incident occurred on October 12, when a university student riding a motorcycle collided with a parked pickup truck, lost control, and was tragically crushed by a passing truck. The incident happened on Bang Na-Trat Road in Chonburi, leaving the young student dead at the scene.

 

 

At approximately 11:20 Pol. Lt. Col. Chaikrit Chotipiriyapokin, an investigator from the Mueang Chonburi Police Station, received a report of a fatal accident involving a motorcycle and a trailer truck. The accident occurred on the inbound lane towards Bangkok at kilometre marker 53+13 in Klong Tamru sub-district, Mueang Chonburi district. Rescue teams from the Tri Khunatham Foundation were dispatched to the scene.

 

Upon arrival, authorities found a white Hino trailer truck parked by the side of the road. Nearby, a damaged white Yamaha Fino motorcycle lay on the ground. Tragically, the body of Mr. Nantachit (last name withheld), a bachelor’s degree student at a well-known university, was discovered under the truck’s rear left wheel. He was wearing his student uniform at the time of the accident.

 

According to Mr. Anupol (last name withheld), 28, the truck driver, he was traveling from Laem Chabang Port to Samut Prakan province. As he approached the accident site, the motorcyclist veered into his path after brushing against a parked pickup truck. Despite his efforts to brake, Mr. Anupol could not avoid the collision, as the motorcycle had already fallen under his vehicle.

 

Authorities will review additional CCTV footage from the scene to investigate the incident thoroughly and proceed with legal action.

 

Footage from the truck’s camera captured the moment the student was speeding on the left side of the truck before losing control and hitting the parked pickup. The collision caused the motorcycle to fall, resulting in the student being run over by the trailer truck, leading to his immediate death.

 

Picture from responders. Dash-cam below.

 

-- 2024-10-13

 

 

 

 

[brianthainess]

6 hours ago, Georgealbert said:

Footage from the truck’s camera captured the moment the student was speeding on the left side of the truck before losing control and hitting the parked pickup. The collision caused the motorcycle to fall, resulting in the student being run over by the trailer truck, leading to his immediate death.

Lucky the truck driver had a rear facing camera, to capture it, otherwise he might have been charged. Broad daylight and still hits a pick up, to fast to judge the speed of traffic ahead. 

[BritManToo]

That's nasty, think his handlebar hit the pickup mirror, knocking him off.

[Enoon]

3 hours ago, brianthainess said:

Lucky the truck driver had a rear facing camera, to capture it, otherwise he might have been charged. Broad daylight and still hits a pick up, to fast to judge the speed of traffic ahead. 

Reading the article before seeing the video had me thinking that the truck was overtaking and squeezed the MC into the parked vehicle........but no.

 

Monumentally poor judgement by the rider.

 

I imagine many Thai people might say:

 

"Som nam na".

 

 

[lordgrinz]

On 10/13/2024 at 10:40 AM, BritManToo said:

That's nasty, think his handlebar hit the pickup mirror, knocking him off.

 

Yup, scary stuff and suicidal!.....But nowhere near as dangerous as the canal road near my house, it's a very narrow two lane road separated by a center line only, tons of motorcycles assume they have the right to travel down the center yellow line between oncoming traffic lanes full of cars. Woman the other day on a motorcycle hit my mirror with hers while driving down the middle center yellow line head-on with me, she is lucky she didn't hit her mirror mount, just the mirror itself, or she would have suffered the same fate as this guy did. Motorcycles are supposed to be to the left of the lane, not driving down the center lane between oncoming traffic. Personally, I wouldn't split lanes under any circumstances here, filtering is OK, but splitting lanes in Thailand is suicidal. I mean if nothing else, the RTP needs to at least stop some of the very dangerous suicidal drivers.

[lordgrinz]

On 10/13/2024 at 10:40 AM, BritManToo said:

That's nasty, think his handlebar hit the pickup mirror, knocking him off.

 

Nah, he fell way before the truck mirror, he misjudged the room and grabbed a handful of front brake and put down his right foot, started sliding and slid until he hit the front right wheel of the pickup truck. You can see his handlebars turn dramatically to the right when he locked up the front wheel. Piss poor training, or as is common here in Thailand, no training at all. The weird parti, s that he had plenty of room, if he just finessed his way through, he freaked and made one of the biggest mistake you can make on a bike (grabbing a fistful of brakes, and putting your foot down).

[Watawattana]

1 hour ago, lordgrinz said:

 

Nah, he fell way before the truck mirror, he misjudged the room and grabbed a handful of front brake and put down his right foot, started sliding and slid until he hit the front right wheel of the pickup truck. You can see his handlebars turn dramatically to the right when he locked up the front wheel. Piss poor training, or as is common here in Thailand, no training at all. The weird parti, s that he had plenty of room, if he just finessed his way through, he freaked and made one of the biggest mistake you can make on a bike (grabbing a fistful of brakes, and putting your foot down).

Yeah, he bottled it a bit, and it went wrong.  Feel bad for saying that.  Better if he'd recognised the elevated risk earlier.  I fell off through my own stupidity once, but I'm still here so I was able to learn.  No chance I'd do what he did now.  Sad he didn't make it to realise his lesson.  Wish others could learn from his mistake to reduce fatalities, but sadly I'm not confident.

[BangkokReady]

As discussed recently, filtering is incredibly dangerous, especially at speed.  Looks like he was going too fast, misjudged the space, slammed the brakes on, and the bike just went down.

 

Very sad, and completely avoidable.