First Day of Thailand’s “10 Dangerous Days” Sees 52 Deaths and 318 Injuries

[Yagoda]

Not bad, but mostly motorcycles. Need two busses with sleepy drivers to really pad the stats.

[Woke to Sounds of Horking]

Mr Elon can solve this with self driving cars on Thailand's roads. It can't come quick enough.

 

Also - driver definitely should not smoke pot and drive.

[Felt 35]

20 hours ago, JoePai said:

That's one way to help out the car industries 

Yes, one can speculate. And if we extend the thought🤔, who owns and controls both the car industry and private hospitals here, could it be someone with a leg related to the go....nt! To stop the carnage would mean less income then, much less. Well, at least it's not Somchai on his way to the New Year celebration in Nakhon Nowhere.

Felt

[Felt 35]

17 hours ago, ozz1 said:

Can you imagine if that many people were killed in a plane crash it would be all over the world news but it's just another day in Thailand so no one cares it's sad really

 

It's terrible that the government here can let this continue year after year Btw, thinking🤔 about the numbers, Thailand has the double of killed in traffic annually than my home country had under second World War 1940-45.

Felt

[Will B Good]

Drove eleven straight hours, 8pm to 7am, last night.

 

Bkk to Nong Bua Daeng.......sounds exhausting, but from Saraburi to the M6 I could relax as my average speed must have been to 10mph.....never travelling on a Thai holiday again (said that a few times)....even at that speed the driving was atrocious....but not dangerous.

[fredwiggy]

2 hours ago, Woke to Sounds of Horking said:

Mr Elon can solve this with self driving cars on Thailand's roads. It can't come quick enough.

 

Also - driver definitely should not smoke pot and drive.

No self driving scooters, which are 85% of the accidents. This won't change for many years to come because the laws aren't enforced correctly. Make people pay for not wearing helmets, you save lives. Same for driving under age, without licenses, 3-5 on scooters, unsafe overloaded trucks, speeding and of course drinking then driving.

[GammaGlobulin]

5 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

You could also have a heart attack or stroke 

 

Never happen.

 

[lordgrinz]

12 hours ago, Yagoda said:

Not bad, but mostly motorcycles. Need two busses with sleepy drivers to really pad the stats.

 

Busses with Meth fueled drivers is more like it.

[lordgrinz]

10 hours ago, fredwiggy said:

No self driving scooters, which are 85% of the accidents. This won't change for many years to come because the laws aren't enforced correctly. Make people pay for not wearing helmets, you save lives. Same for driving under age, without licenses, 3-5 on scooters, unsafe overloaded trucks, speeding and of course drinking then driving.

 

I would just like to see them drive according to Thai law, they drive like laws don't exist. They drive perpendicular to traffic, against traffic, split lanes on solid lines before-and-in intersections, blow red lights, overtake in Zebra crossings, undertake left turning vehicles with their turn signals on, overtake when cars are making a right turn into a road, drive through Zebra crossings (or use them for U-Turning), the list goes on, and on, and on. They seem to have no idea what their countries laws and driving rules are, it would be like handing out licenses to 10 yr olds, Thai's seem to be so ignorant it boggles the mind.

[Yagoda]

9 hours ago, lordgrinz said:

 

I would just like to see them drive according to Thai law, they drive like laws don't exist. They drive perpendicular to traffic, against traffic, split lanes on solid lines before-and-in intersections, blow red lights, overtake in Zebra crossings, undertake left turning vehicles with their turn signals on, overtake when cars are making a right turn into a road, drive through Zebra crossings (or use them for U-Turning), the list goes on, and on, and on. They seem to have no idea what their countries laws and driving rules are, it would be like handing out licenses to 10 yr olds, Thai's seem to be so ignorant it boggles the mind.

I have that here in Siem Reap in the 1km between my crib and the grocery store. You ought to see the highways. Add cattle to the mix.

[Woke to Sounds of Horking]

1 hour ago, Yagoda said:

have that here in Siem Reap

At the risk of going off topic, do you see an influx lately of Westerners setting up camp in SR?

 

Are the rents increasing as a result of demand?

[Yagoda]

1 hour ago, Woke to Sounds of Horking said:

At the risk of going off topic, do you see an influx lately of Westerners setting up camp in SR?

 

Are the rents increasing as a result of demand?

Lots of westerners coming in. Its still overbuilt so now is the time to come in.

[Woke to Sounds of Horking]

13 hours ago, Yagoda said:

Lots of westerners coming in. Its still overbuilt so now is the time to come in.

Cheers buddy

 

Thanks