British Man Collides With Pedestrian in Pattaya Big Bike Crash

[lordgrinz]

7 minutes ago, harryviking said:

Why this mad lust for show off by probably unexperienced drivers! Pattaya is NOT a place for dumb and drunk tourist on big bikes. There are plenty of transportation around the city! USE IT!! or walk....😆

 

The pedestrian was the drunk, not the Big Bike rider.

[harryviking]

Just now, lordgrinz said:

 

The pedestrian was the drunk, not the Big Bike rider.

Yeah, I saw that, but most of the time it is the opposite. 

[Kinok Farang]

5 hours ago, watchcat said:

 

Nice protective clothing for bike riding.

Brits don't need protective clothing.That's just for puffs.Brits are rock-ard.

[Andrew Dwyer]

29 minutes ago, Jiggo said:

Plenty of tourists riding big bikes, shirtless, some with the bar fine clinging to the back seat, most I suspect with no license or more important, experience.

Unfortunately there be more accidents with the innocent coming out worse.

 

Especially if the innocent is inebriated and walks out into the street .

[lordgrinz]

22 minutes ago, Kinok Farang said:

Brits don't need protective clothing.That's just for puffs.Brits are rock-ard.

 

.....and if they are pretenders, GoFundMe has their backs.

[Espanol]

20 hours ago, NickyLouie said:

900cc bike ?

 

bet he wasn't speeding 

 

 

 

"Witnesses painted a vivid picture of the incident.

According to bystanders, Surat appeared heavily intoxicated and had staggered onto the road directly in the motorcycle’s path.

The collision, they claimed, was unavoidable.

 

[Umlungu]

17 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

I'm sure the Anti-Brit Bigots will come up with a few ideas to blame the rider just for being British... 

 

That said - he was pretty dumb to be riding around without gloves, jacket, decent footwear etc - but if only riding at the same speeds as all the other scooter riders etc then he's at no different risk of injury himself than anyone else.

That said - anyone riding a scooter will be better of with a jacket.

 

I will not hit a main road on my scooter without gloves, jacket, boots, full face helmet - some may think thats overkill, others think getting on a motorcycle is a death wish...    our risk profiles and tolerances for risk clearly all vary.

 

Pity that moron on the bike didn't sustain some real damage. Bikes and riders like him use 2nd Road as a race track, speeding, swerving from lane to lane, producing a hell of a racket with their bike noise, revving without reason, going through red lights - all the things they can't do at home they live out here. 

[Umlungu]

1 hour ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

Especially if the innocent is inebriated and walks out into the street .

Traffic, including pedestrians crossing roads, is unpredictable in Thailand. Pedestrians are the weakest participants involved, so bicycles, motorbikes, normal cars, SUVs, pickups, lvans, lorries, buses and large truck need to adapt their on-road behaviour accordingly - which the rider in this instance evidently did not do as no time to react. The fact that the pedestrian was intoxicated is of minor importance. What I have been told about Thai law is that, irrespective of circumstances, the stronger party always carries the bulk of responsibility and liability. 

[transam]

20 hours ago, NickyLouie said:

900cc bike ?

 

bet he wasn't speeding 

 

Why do you think that.......?  🤔

[transam]

17 hours ago, Ralf001 said:

Wonder if the brit will start a gofundme to fix the bike ?

I wondered when you would turn up being creepy............

[Ralf001]

32 minutes ago, transam said:

I wondered when you would turn up being creepy............

Welcome to yesterday.