Teenage Brit Involved in Fatal Road Collision in Pattaya

[connda]

Incredibly sad. 🙏

[Patong2021]

10 hours ago, CallumWK said:

 

You don't need any external funds to go stand at a traffic light and stop and fine everyone that crosses the red traffic light.

There will be a massive inflow of fines, which fund the police operations.

Now that I come to think about, here in Pattaya every major road cross-section has already a police booth with an officer inside most of the day. So all they have to do is step outside and do their job.

 

How do you propose collecting money from  people who have no money? Most of the bad drivers don't have 1,000 baht extra.

[Tatman95]

tragic 

2 hours ago, connda said:

Incredibly sad. 🙏

 

2 hours ago, connda said:

Incredibly sad. 🙏

 

2 hours ago, connda said:

Incredibly sad. 🙏

 

[jacko45k]

20 hours ago, lordgrinz said:

 

Never seen anyone pulled over here in the 8 yrs I have been here, even with traffic police standing right there watching people break road laws, the Thai people know this, so the show (deaths/injuries/maiming) goes on.

Go stand in front of the police station on Beach Rd, loads getting pulled over on a regular basis. 

Doesn't do anything for safety on the roads but is a right good earner. 

[willip]

THAI FARRANG.! looks like money again.  Spoiled rich kid again. 

19 says it all.

 

[watchcat]

On 1/28/2025 at 10:37 PM, SAFETY FIRST said:

The only surprise is his age, I hope he enjoys Thailand prisons. 

 He'll be at least 10 years older when he get out.

[Ralf001]

10 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

It is in our DNA.

We are not the most popular abroad, but we are successful.

We didn’t form the British Empire by being polite and trying to assimilate.

 

If youse are the most successful why so many brit scabs running to gofundme when they come unstuck ?

[Ralf001]

4 hours ago, Patong2021 said:

 

How do you propose collecting money from  people who have no money? Most of the bad drivers don't have 1,000 baht extra.

 

confiscate their bike/car/pickup and sell it.

[lordgrinz]

2 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Go stand in front of the police station on Beach Rd, loads getting pulled over on a regular basis. 

Doesn't do anything for safety on the roads but is a right good earner. 

 

The new point system is an obvious future route, I assume they will eventually move to the Western style of eliminating the riff-raff from the roads, the problem right now is 90% of the drivers ARE the riff-raff. They have allowed anarchy to be the norm here, which is why they lead South East Asia as the worst offenders on the roads, with a multiple of dead and maimed to prove it. I still don't see how the insurance companies here can make any money, especially when everyone on the road is a risk to their business.

[lordgrinz]

55 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

 

confiscate their bike/car/pickup and sell it.

 

Exactly! Not to mention, why does Thailand seem to lack towing companies who go around towing offenders? It could be a lucrative business, would also get a lot of unregistered vehicles, and illegally/dangerously parked vehicles off the roads. 

[Patong2021]

1 hour ago, Ralf001 said:

 

confiscate their bike/car/pickup and sell it.

 

How do they make a living and support themselves?  These people live hand to mouth. If you do what you propose they will turn to crime to survive, and their children may go without food etc. That's how dire the economic conditions are for some of them.

[lordgrinz]

1 minute ago, Patong2021 said:

 

How do they make a living and support themselves?  These people live hand to mouth. If you do what you propose they will turn to crime to survive, and their children may go without food etc. That's how dire the economic conditions are for some of them.

 

No, a few will have to suffer to send a message to the masses, but they'll quickly learn how to tow the line, or pay the price. 

[CallumWK]

5 hours ago, Patong2021 said:

 

How do you propose collecting money from  people who have no money? Most of the bad drivers don't have 1,000 baht extra.

 

They have a car or motorbike, don't they? You would be surprised, once you confiscate that, how quickly they have money.

What you are suggesting here, is the main reason why nobody pays up.

[Patong2021]

 

This is reading like a Dickens morality tale, with  foreigners demonstrating their lack of understanding of the socio economic  characteristics of their host country.

 

20 minutes ago, lordgrinz said:

No, a few will have to suffer to send a message to the masses, but they'll quickly learn how to tow the line, or pay the price. 

 

Many are already suffering. Limited education, subsistence living. How much more are you going to do to them? Beat down a disenfranchised population and eventually they rise up in revolution and  poof will go the hedonistic delights of places like Pattaya. Lean from history and what happened to Saigon and Havana.

 

18 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

They have a car or motorbike, don't they? You would be surprised, once you confiscate that, how quickly they have money.

What you are suggesting here, is the main reason why nobody pays up.

 

They are forced to borrow from loan sharks, driving impoverished people further into debt and the exploitation that accompanies such a predicament. Your method has been tried previously and it  has not worked out.

 

[lordgrinz]

5 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

 

This is reading like a Dickens morality tale, with  foreigners demonstrating their lack of understanding of the socio economic  characteristics of their host country.

 

 

Many are already suffering. Limited education, subsistence living. How much more are you going to do to them? Beat down a disenfranchised population and eventually they rise up in revolution and  poof will go the hedonistic delights of places like Pattaya. Lean from history and what happened to Saigon and Havana.

 

 

They are forced to borrow from loan sharks, driving impoverished people further into debt and the exploitation that accompanies such a predicament. Your method has been tried previously and it  has not worked out.

 

 

So your part of the problem, not the solution, you can go back to putting your head in the sand.

[jacko45k]

59 minutes ago, lordgrinz said:

 

The new point system is an obvious future route, I assume they will eventually move to the Western style of eliminating the riff-raff from the roads, the problem right now is 90% of the drivers ARE the riff-raff. They have allowed anarchy to be the norm here, which is why they lead South East Asia as the worst offenders on the roads, with a multiple of dead and maimed to prove it. I still don't see how the insurance companies here can make any money, especially when everyone on the road is a risk to their business.

Well the ones being pulled over here in front of the station are mainly tourists, driving presumably on home licence with IDP.  Outside of that location, I see little policing effort.  Most there, away from town,  probably only carry compulsory insurance, if any, not that much liability for the insurance companies there. 

[Ralf001]

55 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

 

How do they make a living and support themselves?  These people live hand to mouth. If you do what you propose they will turn to crime to survive, and their children may go without food etc. That's how dire the economic conditions are for some of them.

 

They will soon learn... only a few will be affected.

[brewsterbudgen]

2 hours ago, watchcat said:

 He'll be at least 10 years older when he get out.

I'd say it's very unlikely he'll go to prison at all, unless they find he was under the influence of something.  More likely that an 'appropriate' amount of compensation to the victims' families will be agreed, and case closed.

[Jonathan Swift]

On 1/29/2025 at 5:02 AM, scubascuba3 said:

Should have checked him for drugs, crazy some of these young falang riders, probably the same in cars

"Falang riders, the same in cars"? How are these names western names? "The motorcycle rider, identified as Ms. Kulthida, 19, and her passenger Ms. Thassanee"

[novacova]

4 minutes ago, Jonathan Swift said:

"Falang riders, the same in cars"? How are these names western names? "The motorcycle rider, identified as Ms. Kulthida, 19, and her passenger Ms. Thassanee"

I have a friend in the US, born and raised. Parents migrated from Korea and she was given a Korean name and she’s 100% westerner.

[scubascuba3]

21 minutes ago, Jonathan Swift said:

"Falang riders, the same in cars"? How are these names western names? "The motorcycle rider, identified as Ms. Kulthida, 19, and her passenger Ms. Thassanee"

Obviously it confused you, special needs?I'll explain, i often see crazy farang riders on motorbikes those same people are probably just as bad in cars, the driver was half falang

[Cabradelmar]

On 1/29/2025 at 12:07 PM, lordgrinz said:

 

He is HALF THAI!!!!!

So what... He is still 100% a <deleted>. None of which makes a lick of difference to my original comment, which I will restart... Said <deleted> faces 3 possible outcomes... Loss of freedom and/or loss of finances, or to flee the Kingdom to save himself from accountability.

[richard_smith237]

On 1/29/2025 at 5:37 AM, SAFETY FIRST said:

Typical foreigner behaving badly, loads of these idiots on Soi Buakhou.

 

The only surprise is his age, I hope he enjoys Thailand prisons.

 

No... Its not 'typical'....  I know lots of foreigners here and none behave like this... neither do I, neither do you and most likely neither do those you know....

 

There is nothing typical about this...   is just another example of a total ahole on the roads, they are in abundance here, Foreigners and Thai.... 

 

 

his very selfish and idiotic behavior has ruined a family's life.... he's in some very deep shyte - Death by reckless driving.

[Ralf001]

3 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

 

 

 

 he's in some very deep shyte - Death by reckless driving.

 

10yrs and/or Bt20,000 fine.

[SAFETY FIRST]

18 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

No... Its not 'typical'....  I know lots of foreigners here and none behave like this... neither do I, neither do you and most likely neither do those you know....

 

There is nothing typical about this...   is just another example of a total ahole on the roads, they are in abundance here, Foreigners and Thai.... 

 

 

his very selfish and idiotic behavior has ruined a family's life.... he's in some very deep shyte - Death by reckless driving.

Dickie..... you're in BKK, come down to Pattaya, I'll show you around, the town is full of these idiots.

 

 

 

[ChipButty]

8 hours ago, Ralf001 said:

 

confiscate their bike/car/pickup and sell it.

They do in the UKand after a week they crush it

[Ralf001]

1 minute ago, ChipButty said:

They do in the UKand after a week they crush it

 

And ?

[richard_smith237]

24 minutes ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Dickie..... you're in BKK, come down to Pattaya, I'll show you around, the town is full of these idiots.

 

True that...  I know area's such as Pattaya and Patong etc attract more loons...   But, do you and your mates drive like that ?

 

If such behavior was typical of all foreigners..... then you'd be an outlier not driving like a nutcase... in reality most drive reasonably, its just a few nutters who make the news that you seem to be calling 'typical'... 

 

 

[BangkokReady]

On 1/29/2025 at 5:37 AM, SAFETY FIRST said:

Typical foreigner behaving badly, loads of these idiots on Soi Buakhou.

 

It's fairly common for Thais to drive like that.  What do you think of them?  Also idiots?

[SAFETY FIRST]

36 minutes ago, BangkokReady said:

 

It's fairly common for Thais to drive like that.  What do you think of them?  Also idiots?

You're comparing apples with oranges.

People from the West should know better.

Thailand has very little education on road safety.