Many Car Crashes On The Island

[BigC]

my friend sore a crash in lamui the other night. car went into a shop. think it was a karokee shop. someone was killed. apprently. on the main road opposite delco's furntiure shop

and i herd of another one today where someone crashed into a shop. someone also died near the jungle club

just wondering if thier was any confirmation on these crashes. i drove past the one in lamui thier was a shop in bits

[SamuiJens]

my friend sore a crash in lamui the other night. car went into a shop. think it was a karokee shop. someone was killed. apprently. on the main road opposite delco's furntiure shop

and i herd of another one today where someone crashed into a shop. someone also died near the jungle club

just wondering if thier was any confirmation on these crashes. i drove past the one in lamui thier was a shop in bits

C, you mean lamai?

[gusG]

lamui, samai, who knows? I think BigC should apply for a job at the lamui espresso.

[BigC]

lamui, samai, who knows? I think BigC should apply for a job at the lamui espresso.

i like chicken

[seagull]

my friend sore a crash in lamui the other night. car went into a shop. think it was a karokee shop. someone was killed. apprently. on the main road opposite delco's furntiure shop

and i herd of another one today where someone crashed into a shop. someone also died near the jungle club

just wondering if thier was any confirmation on these crashes. i drove past the one in lamui thier was a shop in bits

Simply lovable. The English I mean.

[SamuiJens]

my friend sore a crash in lamui the other night. car went into a shop. think it was a karokee shop. someone was killed. apprently. on the main road opposite delco's furntiure shop

and i herd of another one today where someone crashed into a shop. someone also died near the jungle club

just wondering if thier was any confirmation on these crashes. i drove past the one in lamui thier was a shop in bits

Simply lovable. The English I mean.

I'll second that, a Brit with lovely spelling. As for being a chicken lover, what has that to do with car crashes, BigC?

Edited May 10, 2008 by SamuiJens

[breezein]

A serious post on this forum always seems to attract the forum clowns.

Edited May 10, 2008 by breezein

[seagull]

A serious post on this forum always seems to attract the forum clowns.

Right ! And may I ask sir, what are you doing here ?

[BigC]

i can spell i just forgotten how??? how do u do it?

[frankman]

The topc is about accidents not about english arrogant spelling. There are 400 dead on the road on samui every year on the statistic. But that's just because we send you all the fullmoon people....

[BigC]

yeah sorry back on the topic. just herd of a biog crash 9th May about 500 meter after jungle club towards lamui from chaweng on the main road.

i only ask because my g/f mother in surat had to burry someone from a car crash in samui the other day.

[malcolmswaine]

Nasty crash on the hill just out from Nathon last week. Check out the state of the car.

[onnut]

Nasty crash on the hill just out from Nathon last week. Check out the state of the car.

It really boggles my mind when I see cars in that state. how the he-l did they do that on this road, I understand you rip a car up like that when you drive at high spead but that road there?

[BigC]

Nasty crash on the hill just out from Nathon last week. Check out the state of the car.

It really boggles my mind when I see cars in that state. how the he-l did they do that on this road, I understand you rip a car up like that when you drive at high spead but that road there?

i have seen many car crashes on that hill. people drive too fast down it skid and fall down those large gutters

[robsamui]

When I came here 12 years ago, the police released accident figures each month - as they still do now.

Back then, when there was far less traffic on the roads, Samui had around 350 deaths a year - just about one every day.

But I now see that the death toll has dropped down to only around 2-3 each month. I wrote to Samui Explorer about this and received an interesting reply.

It seems that - in the interests of not alarming the potential tourists - the way that these statistics are recorded has changed. Previously, if you had a road accident, went to hospital and then died of your injuries a week later, you counted as a road death. But now you have to be dead on arrival to be counted as such.

Interestingly the proportion of deaths here is horrendous - relate it to BKK for instance. If Bangkok had the same road-death rate as Samui - as a percentage of the population - there would be over 1,000 killed a month on the roads of Bangkok.

Work that one out!

R

ps - just found some figures that show that in 2002 there were 3,887 road deaths in Bangkok. That's ten times more than teeny little Samui.

Edited May 13, 2008 by robsamui

[BigC]

When I came here 12 years ago, the police released accident figures each month - as they still do now.

Back then, when there was far less traffic on the roads, Samui had around 350 deaths a year - just about one every day.

But I now see that the death toll has dropped down to only around 2-3 each month. I wrote to Samui Explorer about this and received an interesting reply.

It seems that - in the interests of not alarming the potential tourists - the way that these statistics are recorded has changed. Previously, if you had a road accident, went to hospital and then died of your injuries a week later, you counted as a road death. But now you have to be dead on arrival to be counted as such.

Interestingly the proportion of deaths here is horrendous - relate it to BKK for instance. If Bangkok had the same road-death rate as Samui - as a percentage of the population - there would be over 1,000 killed a month on the roads of Bangkok.

Work that one out!

R

ps - just found some figures that show that in 2002 there were 3,887 road deaths in Bangkok. That's ten times more than teeny little Samui.

interesting. maybe to a pinned poll to report crashes. names and stuff. let the PM's deside to keep them up or not.

see if we can match the papers count. also can track the accident as it happens rarther than wait 2 weeks to find out who hit who.

specially if u r in england and u have family and you commmunt to koh samui. u can keep updated. quickely..ish