56-Year-Old Civil Servant Killed on Her Way to Work by Elderly Driver

[Georgealbert]

 

 

Picture from responders.

 

A 56-year-old female civil servant was tragically killed in a road accident on January 10, when a car driven by a 70-year-old man collided with her motorcycle near Lampang. The incident occurred as the victim was on her way to work at the Lampang Irrigation Office.

 

The accident took place at a U-turn on the Phahonyothin Road (Lampang-Phayao section) in Ban Mon Khao Kaew, Pichai Subdistrict, Mueang Lampang District. Local police, medics from Lampang Hospital, and rescue teams from the Pichai Municipality and the Lampang Rescue Association responded to the scene.

 

At the scene, officers found the victim lying in the middle of the road near her red Yamaha motorcycle (registration from Lampang). She had sustained severe head injuries and a broken right leg, and was pronounced dead at the scene. The front of her motorcycle was damaged.

 

Nearby, a silver Toyota Vios (registration from Lampang) was parked with visible damage to the left front side. The driver, a 70-year-old man, was unharmed.

 

According to initial investigations, the victim had been riding her motorcycle to work when the collision occurred. The car, which was returning from Lampang Hospital after the driver had a blood test, was attempting to make a U-turn into a nearby village when it collided with the motorcycle. The impact caused the victim to be thrown off her motorcycle, hitting her head on the road.

 

Authorities transported the body to the hospital for further procedures and will conduct a detailed investigation to determine fault. The victim’s family, devastated by the news, has been informed and will collect the body for funeral arrangements.

 

-- 2025-01-12

 

 

[Tropicalevo]

Cars, vans, trucks etc rarely give way to a motorcycle.

They tend to assume that the bike will always give way.

Happens to me most days when I am on my bike.

Coming out of a side road, they will stop and look.

When they see that it is a bike on the main road, they then pull out in front of me.

 

Not saying that this is what happened here, but maybe.......

[Briggsy]

There is also this strange phenomenon when doing U-turns of not having the steering wheel on full lock, not utilising the slip lane if there is one and and bizarrely crossing all lanes of the highway perpendicular to the oncoming traffic at relatively slow speed only to then zigzag back across all the lanes whilst accelerating but still markedly slower than the oncoming traffic.

 

It makes no sense. It is as if they want to make the manoeuvre as dangerous as possible.

 

The goal should be to complete the manoeuvre safely but also quickly to place yourself back into the direction of traffic at an appropriate speed. The whole manoeuvre should be envisaged before commencing it.

 

In this case I wonder if the pick-up was attempting to get over to the inside to make a left turn and the motorcyclist assumed he would just make a tight U-turn and as a result they both ended up in the same spot. Either way he should have not driven into the path of the oncoming motorcycle.

 

Another completely avoidable fatality on Thailand's very dangerous roads.

[lordgrinz]

On 1/12/2025 at 1:52 PM, Briggsy said:

There is also this strange phenomenon when doing U-turns of not having the steering wheel on full lock, not utilising the slip lane if there is one and and bizarrely crossing all lanes of the highway perpendicular to the oncoming traffic at relatively slow speed only to then zigzag back across all the lanes whilst accelerating but still markedly slower than the oncoming traffic.

 

It makes no sense. It is as if they want to make the manoeuvre as dangerous as possible.

 

The goal should be to complete the manoeuvre safely but also quickly to place yourself back into the direction of traffic at an appropriate speed. The whole manoeuvre should be envisaged before commencing it.

 

In this case I wonder if the pick-up was attempting to get over to the inside to make a left turn and the motorcyclist assumed he would just make a tight U-turn and as a result they both ended up in the same spot. Either way he should have not driven into the path of the oncoming motorcycle.

 

Another completely avoidable fatality on Thailand's very dangerous roads.

 

Yup, boggles the mind! Not sure about this crash, but here we have some 40 kph zones, with large speed bumps just before them (no slip lanes), what do you think the drivers do? Yup, they speed up to 80kph and fly over the speed bump to try and cut off the drivers U-Turning. In fact, it appears people buy large SUV's and pickup trucks just for this purpose.