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Foreign Motorcyclist Killed in Early Morning Crash in Pattaya
22 years for me - not even a scratch. I wouldn't be driving like crazy in the early hours on that road or any others though. I open my bike up when & where its safe to do so. -
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PM Paetongtarn strengthens ties with Xi in landmark China visit
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Foreign couple exposed for repeated taxi fare scams in Phuket
Fair call. I do likewise with banknotes. I have made mistakes. -
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Trump’s mad, mad, mad, mad world—now with extra madness
What few expected 6 months ago is that the PINO would have to clear everything with a South African with Asperger's. We thought it would just be Project 2025 running things, letting the bloated one pretend he's a potentate, but the guy who hires 19-year old popcorn fortune heirs to restructure the USG was not on anyone's Bingo Card. -
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Road Safety in Thailand – a summary of Perceptions and Reality
If I, and others see it, it IS true. We aren't on mushrooms. A person that drives more then twice the amount of miles than the average driver sees a lot more incidents of driving habits. You seem to think it's racist to say that local drivers, meaning many, and no one said all, have a lot to learn about safe driving. The stats show this also. What you don't understand is that if a country has millions of more drivers on the road , there will be more accidents happening. If you have 10 drivers on one road, and three are bad drivers, you will have some accidents happen. If you have 400 people on the same road and 120 are bad drivers, you will have many more accidents happen. Per capita is viable, and so is this. Who's arguing about data? Data doesn't reduce accident numbers. Live action does, meaning having drivers prepared BEFORE they are given licenses and obeying the laws they were taught. Meaning actual enforcement of those laws, which is the police's job. having roads repaired asap, which is the government's job. No one disputed these things would reduce accidents. You thinking having all this data available will reduce accidents, leaving out the most important facet, the driver. They have decent roads here, with some very bad, not unlike other countries that are developing. They have some enforcement but not near enough. Do you think things will change here? They might, but it will take a very long time because of the one thing you're missing about locals here. Attitude. Others have also pointed this out and you dismiss it. There are a lot more drivers here that are selfish, incompetent, arrogant, lazy and non caring than where we were born. This isn't something dismissed. The attitude towards life itself is very weak here, with a lack of care that I've never seen before. You can't change that with changes in infrastructure , road improvement or better enforcement. You will reduce the amount of accidents if the roads are repaired faster, because people take risks on bad roads that leads to accidents. You can fine the hell out of drivers who break the law, and it will help more because you take money from a poor citizen's pocket, it might make them slow down, and it might not. You can have a stronger test before they get licensed, but it won't change their attitudes towards life itself. If you go onto the road driving with a "who cares who's behind or to the side of me, I'm first anyway", you will have accidents. People get mowed down here every day because they don't use their mirrors, or they don't have any in the first place. If you think road rage doesn't exist here, think again. I see it almost every day, with people cutting others off on scooters and even scooters cutting off trucks, thinking they can somehow compete with them. Stats show they can't. Again, I have not argued against research , data or science. I've agreed that it helps, but there is the one most important thing again. The mind of the driver, who is responsible for all accidents. You can have perfect straight highways, with a policeman enforcing every law immediately, and you will still have accidents, because some people don't give a <deleted>, period. And the amount here that doesn't far exceeds what we've seen in other countries. Nothing to do with being racist. We see these drivers every day. You've been watching this data every year for 20 years, and things have not improved. How long before your data improves things? It will reduce the amount of accidents if you ticket, fine and jail people breaking the law, because some learn when you take their money, especially if they're poor, but you can't change the attitudes. -
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Thai man assaulted by seller for trying on shoes without buying - video
That's why I prefer to buy things from big stores, not small mom and pop stalls
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