Driving In Thailand

[terdsak_12]

As most people have cameras on their phones these days I thought I'd start a thread showing the craziness on the roads in Bangkok and elsewhere.

So get you mobile ready and when you see something mad on the roads snap away and post it here.

Took this one this morning, ###### thing nearly toppled over.

[Thetyim]

[terdsak_12]

Excellent, you get the idea!!!

[corkscrew]

As most people have cameras on their phones these days I thought I'd start a thread showing the craziness on the roads in Bangkok and elsewhere.

So get you mobile ready and when you see something mad on the roads snap away and post it here.

Took this one this morning, ###### thing nearly toppled over.

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This should be fun!!!

[raro]

it happened recently to a friend of mine: Just literally splitseconds after overtaking a truck loaded with logs at 100+ on a highway, the logs fell sideways off the truck.

[Crossy]

One can only wonder how this truck got here.

The chaps are looking at the woefully inadequate tow truck that turned up to perform a rescue.

[raro]

One can only wonder how this truck got here.

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This very question always springs in mind when I see an accident in Thailand....how did they ever manage to get the vehicle in this position into the ditch....

[Butterfly]

One can only wonder how this truck got here.

The chaps are looking at the woefully inadequate tow truck that turned up to perform a rescue.

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seems like he tried to do a U-TURN at the wrong place

[Nickkbh]

I call this one a Pig-up.....

[Butterfly]

[Galong]

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Please let us know the story behind this mildly overloaded truck. Where was it? How many of these rocket scientists got smushed?

[Butterfly]

Another pair of rocket scientists

[andyfletch]

I call this one a Pig-up.....

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Or maybe a piggy-back

[taxexile]

So get you mobile ready and when you see something mad on the roads snap away and post it here.

i saw a driver using his mobile to take a picture whilst driving , madness really , the smash was spectacular but the results were too gory to post here.

[zzap]

One can only wonder how this truck got here.

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This very question always springs in mind when I see an accident in Thailand....how did they ever manage to get the vehicle in this position into the ditch....

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It's the quality of the driving schools which does this...

[Butterfly]

One can only wonder how this truck got here.

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This very question always springs in mind when I see an accident in Thailand....how did they ever manage to get the vehicle in this position into the ditch....

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It's the quality of the driving schools which does this...

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What driving school ? an extra 1500 baht and you have your license

[Crossy]

No piccie with this one I'm afraid

A couple of months back I trundling along minding my own business out round the back of Pathum, not sure exactly where but there's a long straight stretch of 2 lane road.

In the distance I see a truck coming the other way. To the left of the truck on my side of the road I see a vague shape.

Truck approaches, as does the shape, still on my side of the road.

Time to slow down and pull to the left.

Just in time, as the truck passed me it's still being overtaken by a chap driving one of the two wheeled rotovator things with a little trailer on which he was standing. They must have been doing 50ks.

Looking in the mirror I saw him cut in, in front of the truck. Amazingly no collision.

On a similar subject, there's a young girl passes our place regularly with one of the rotovators, she has no trailer, she uses a SKATEBOARD. Gotta get a piccy.

[corkscrew]

No piccie with this one I'm afraid

A couple of months back I trundling along minding my own business out round the back of Pathum, not sure exactly where but there's a long straight stretch of 2 lane road.

In the distance I see a truck coming the other way. To the left of the truck on my side of the road I see a vague shape.

Truck approaches, as does the shape, still on my side of the road.

Time to slow down and pull to the left.

Just in time, as the truck passed me it's still being overtaken by a chap driving one of the two wheeled rotovator things with a little trailer on which he was standing. They must have been doing 50ks.

Looking in the mirror I saw him cut in, in front of the truck. Amazingly no collision.

On a similar subject, there's a young girl passes our place regularly with one of the rotovators, she has no trailer, she uses a SKATEBOARD. Gotta get a piccy.

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Crossy,

What is a rotovator? I have probably seen one but I can't relate the name to the thing. Is it one of those things that farmers use to drill holes in the earth?

Edited November 22, 2005 by corkscrew

[Crossy]

You have certainly seen them, sometimes called iron buffalo they are the universal farm power source.

This one has a big trailer, the one that nearly hit me had a plank with two small wheels.

[Nordlys]

[taxexile]

this was taken a couple of years ago somewhere in the north east.

there were also another 5 or 6 in the front !!

[corkscrew]

These guys were pretty drunk when their truck made the turn. The chap on the right had been dragging his foot for a couple of kilometers.

[terdsak_12]

Someone sent me this the other day:

Not bad!!!!

[VTR1000]

Someone sent me this the other day:

Not bad!!!!

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^^^^^ Ha ha, taken in Samui by the looks of it. I had a prickess pull right out in front of me there and it cost me over 2 months off work. Definately one place where they could do with extra road tuition.

[corkscrew]

Here's another one for the road.

[richb2004]

Come on gents! Surely this is Thai bashing. I have been told on numerous driving related threads that Thais are good drivers and the roads are safe. It’s a cultural thing. The Thai driving system and roads are as valid as any. Surely you got these images from another country; UK maybe.

[corkscrew]

Here's another one for the road.

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Sigh...I confess...the lorry was from a London ring road. A delivery of Downing Street documents to M-6. A very clever disguise, I guess.