Foreigners Die In Phuket Car Crash

[webfact]

Foreigners die in Phuket car crash

The driver and a passenger were killed in the accident.

PHUKET: -- Two foreigners died this morning and two more suffered serious injuries after the Toyota Vios they were travelling in slammed into a roadside power pole in central Phuket.

A rescue worker at the scene told the Phuket Gazette that the accident happened at about 5am at the U-turn on Wichit Songkhram Road near Thai Naan Restaurant.

“One of the men – the driver – died after being taken to hospital. The woman sitting directly behind him died instantly,” he said.

The other two passengers, a man sitting in the front passenger seat and another woman sitting in the back, suffered serious injuries.

The man is still recovering at Phuket International Hospital. The woman, initially rushed to to Bangkok Hospital Phuket, was transferred to Vachira Phuket Hospital about two hours ago.

The body of the woman who died is also now at Vachira Hospital, he added.

Staff at Vachira told the Gazette that they believe the two survivors and the female victim are Russian nationals, and that the driver was likely from Kuwait.

The Russian honorary consulate in Phuket has been unavailable for comment this afternoon.

-- Phuket Gazette 2011-07-22

[seriouseats]

One good reason not to drive one of those cheap small cars.. small accidents kill you when they should just give you a good scare

[Atmos]

^ small accident? There appears to be a lamp-post inside the line of the car.

Personally, I am not qualified to comment on the safety or otherwise of vehicles suffering a high-impact side-on collision such as this - looking at the damage, what would a 'big expensive' (as opposed to small cheap) car have offered?

[oo7]

that amount of damage i would say speed was a part to the event.

[Gonsalviz]

One good reason not to drive one of those cheap small cars.. small accidents kill you when they should just give you a good scare

Have you ever been to Kuwait and watched them drive? Some could kill themselves in a tank if they could get it to go fast enough.

Not trying to be callous but what kind of car you are in does not make any difference if you drive with common sense.

The pic does not look like a small accident. I looks like speeding and sliding off the road into a pole.

Edited July 22, 2011 by Gonsalviz

[Valentine]

One good reason not to drive one of those cheap small cars.. small accidents kill you when they should just give you a good scare

Have you ever been to Kuwait and watched them drive? Some could kill themselves in a tank if they could get it to go fast enough.

Not trying to be callous but what kind of car you are in does not make any difference if you drive with common sense.

The pic does not look like a small accident. I looks like speeding and sliding off the road into a pole.

Sliding into a pole on the opposite side of the road unless the car spun around. Certainly must have been high speed & at that time hardly anyone else on the road.

[seriouseats]

Cars with safety features would of helped the drunk driver to control his slidding and the reinforced side doors would of saved them completely.

[Atmos]

^ drunk driver?

there no mention of alcohol involved in the news report

Perhaps they were not wearing seatbelts either; and looking at that damage, I doubt side intrusion/impact bars would have "saved them completely" as you suggest

and basically what you are saying is that if they had not had an accident, no one would have been hurt.

[seriouseats]

have you driven a vios? it's like driving a box with 3 shopping cart wheel under. Shopping cart has more safety though, with that steel cage.

[WarpSpeed]

One good reason not to drive one of those cheap small cars.. small accidents kill you when they should just give you a good scare

You hit a pole with that much force broad side and your likely F%$ked in any case.. The trick is to stay on the pavement where cars are meant to travel and not to run into concrete poles or any other similar road side barrier that's stronger then the car you're driving in ..

The side G loading, even in a larger well built vehicle will likely break your neck or splatter your brains all over the pole or inside your car on the B pillar as that motion is limited for the neck and has limited travel compared to forward and backward motions..

There are at minimum 2 impacts in an accident one with the obstacle and one with the inside of your car. If the inside is moving towards you while you're moving towards it then the impact on your person is incrementally increased by X factor..

Edited July 23, 2011 by WarpSpeed

[WarpSpeed]

Cars with safety features would of helped the drunk driver to control his slidding and the reinforced side doors would of saved them completely.

If he was driving drunk and killed himself that's the only redeeming factor and good the car didn't save his life to possibly kill others another day. The shame of it is if he was drunk he may have also taken more innocents with him besides the ones he already has.. Still not the cars fault, it's the drunks fault if indeed he was drunk..

Silly, apologist rhetoric or trolling on your part..

Edited July 23, 2011 by WarpSpeed

[WarpSpeed]

have you driven a vios? it's like driving a box with 3 shopping cart wheel under. Shopping cart has more safety though, with that steel cage.

No doubt but it still doesn't belie the silly assumptions of your rant when comparing a light pole against the broad side of a car, any car.....

Anyway sad for his victims and hope the ones who still can will recover fully as in any case he wasn't driving responsibly to have had such a horrendous impact and putting his passengers in harms way..

Edited July 23, 2011 by WarpSpeed

[LivinginKata]

Driver ‘not drinking’ in fatal Phuket crash

Police said the driver lost control of the vehicle before crashing into the power pole.

PHUKET: Police have confirmed that alcohol was not a factor in a fatal car accident in central Phuket on Friday.

The driver of the car, Lithuanian Tamara Latvijas Rabo, 31, died instantly in the crash and Kuwaiti Waleed MHH Alostad, 37, the front-seat passenger, later died at Phuket International Hospital (PIH), Police Duty Officer Kittiphum Tinthalang told the Phuket Gazette.

Two other passengers were injured when the Toyota Vios hit a power pole while travelling from Patong toward Phuket Town on Wichit Songkhram Road near the Thai Naan restaurant and Central Festival.

A 25-year-old Kuwaiti man was not seriously injured and released from PIH on Saturday, while a 28-year-old Russian woman who was seated behind the driver is still in Vachira Phuket Hospital with two broken legs, hospital officials said.

Capt Kittiphum said that Ms Rabo had not been drinking but was driving at a high speed along a slightly downhill section of the road. When she reached a set of orange “traffic poles” marking a U-turn area, she swerved, causing the car to spin before slamming into the power pole, he said.

Ms Rabo’s body is at Vachira Hospital and Mr Alostad’s is at Phuket International Hospital.

-- Phuket Gazette 2011-07-25

[tolsti]

Whilst the use of the female pronoun Ms and its image of a woman in comfortable shoes (Good Morning Vietnam)is common place , it is still traditional; at least among the English speaking tribes of the world that is; to refer to the person as she.

That is exactly what the Phuket Gazette does.

However... those that just jump to conclusions automatically assume that the driver was male?

Read the report.

Tamara Latvijas Robo.... sorry you had to go so early.... and I am sure that Serious Seats and Warp Speed agree,

Edited July 25, 2011 by LivinginKata
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