webfact Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 Truck spills acid near Bangkok The Nation BANGKOK: -- A truck carrying 4 tonnes of nitric acid overturned yesterday, spilling the chemical on to an expressway lane of Kanchanaphisek Road near Bang Bua Thong just north of Bangkok. Police sealed the area shortly after 9.30am and contained the spill by spraying water and fire-extinguisher foam. A motorcyclist who rode past the area reportedly inhaled the chemical, fainted and fell off the bike, and traffic in the area became heavily congested. Truck driver Niwapong Deeraksa, 25, who was slightly injured, told police the left rear wheel suddenly came off while he was driving, causing the truck to turn sideways and 540 litres of nitric acid leaked out. In related news, Bangkok City and Land Transport officials will organise an accident drill tomorrow for trucks carrying chemicals or fuel on Chao Kreetha Road in Lat Krabang to test 300 officials' capacity to manage such dramas. -- The Nation 2012-11-13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JeremyBowskill Posted November 12, 2012 Popular Post Share Posted November 12, 2012 This whole thing reads like a laurel and hardy script. The wheel comes off, chemical spills then man rides past on a bike and faints. Comical genius all it needs is someone slipping an a banana skin or someone tripping with a cake and falling face down into it and its a classic! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Moruya Posted November 13, 2012 Popular Post Share Posted November 13, 2012 One day Thailand might want to join the developed world and invest in safety and standards. Wheels fell off a truck carrying acid...... Sent from my Nexus 7 using Thaivisa Connect App 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post asiawatcher Posted November 13, 2012 Popular Post Share Posted November 13, 2012 (edited) This whole thing reads like a laurel and hardy script. The wheel comes off, chemical spills then man rides past on a bike and faints. Comical genius all it needs is someone slipping an a banana skin or someone tripping with a cake and falling face down into it and its a classic! Don't forget to add the sproings and boings sound FX. Thai's would be lost without them... Edited November 13, 2012 by asiawatcher 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEVUP Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 One day Thailand might want to join the developed world and invest in safety and standards. Wheels fell off a truck carrying acid...... Sent from my Nexus 7 using Thaivisa Connect App To right Vehicle services & the man in the picture with short sleaves whilst the others are covered head to foot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Payboy Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 One day Thailand might want to join the developed world and invest in safety and standards. Wheels fell off a truck carrying acid...... Sent from my Nexus 7 using Thaivisa Connect App To right Vehicle services & the man in the picture with short sleaves whilst the others are covered head to foot If things got worse, he could always make a quick exit with his jet-pack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tywais Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 Unbelievable. There should be a high priority and regulations that any vehicle transporting hazardous material be closely checked before each run. Oh wait, forgot where I was for a moment. Is that Thailand's Hazmat team? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Fozfromoz Posted November 13, 2012 Popular Post Share Posted November 13, 2012 The drug police will need to crack down on this. People driving around the city "dropping acid" 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rionoir Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 When are Thais going to wake up?! This would be hilarious if it wasn't so pathetic... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eeeya Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 usual point and laugh mentality on here 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buchholz Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 Coincidentally, the wheels on this bus fall off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chooka Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 The wheel came off????? OMG this vehicle is carrying a hazardous load, who on gods earth did the vehicle inspection before it left with the load? Come on there are very strict regulations for vehicle carrying such a load. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post fareastguy Posted November 13, 2012 Popular Post Share Posted November 13, 2012 Who wants to live in a sanitised country with no news each day.. keep the crap trucks rolling with non trained drivers, driving all hours on the road carrying hazardous goods even better. I like the thrill with my coffee each day, don't spoil all my fun !! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noitom Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 They will "organize" a truck accident drill so they know how to clean up. Those Thais. Boy oh boy!! They know accidentally what to work on. After the accident, work on clean up drills. Don't worry about preventive safety and security and truck regulations and inspections so as to "prevent" the accidents. Boy oh boy these Thais - they sure have nailed it! These Thais, they are something else. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocN Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 ...waiting for the "this could happen anywhere"- apologists.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Payboy Posted November 13, 2012 Popular Post Share Posted November 13, 2012 ...waiting for the "this could happen anywhere"- apologists.... This could happen anywhere in Thailand. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IMA_FARANG Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 (edited) The wheel suddenly came off ! Don't you just love that statement? Tells you all you could hope to know about the state of the maintenance of that vehicle. Wheels do not normally just fall off well maintained vehicles. P. S. A friend of mine once told this to a traffic policeman this statement regarding his "accident" at an intersection where there was a painted "Zebra" crossing (Pedestrians have the legal right of way in Zebra crossings). He said, "I was distracted by a pretty girl on the sidewalk, and I failed to notice the flashing yellow iight that showed there was a pedestrian crossing at the Zebra crossing; so therefore I ran into the rear end of the other vehicle stopped at the Zebra crossing to allow the pedestrian to cross". He was judged to be 100% at fault. This accident occured in Denmark. Edited November 13, 2012 by IMA_FARANG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hans12345 Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 Last week a concrete mixer car lost two wheels near Rotterdam (The Netherlands) so it does not happen only in Thailand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antpet Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 I'm surprised they aren't telling us it was just a leak from the battery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocN Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 Last week a concrete mixer car lost two wheels near Rotterdam (The Netherlands) so it does not happen only in Thailand Thank you...I couldn't have lived one day without! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softgeorge Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 (edited) The wheel fell off . Amazing. When I 1st joined this forum a couple of yrs ago I would read a story such as this and think <deleted>, now it is just ho hum another day in Thailand. Edited November 13, 2012 by softgeorge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Scott Posted November 13, 2012 Popular Post Share Posted November 13, 2012 It reminds me of that Kenny Roger's song--You picked a fine time to leave me Loose Wheel. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocN Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 usual point and laugh mentality on here Stare with an open mouth, in shock and awe! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eeeya Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 Fark... a wheel fell off a car carrying a few containers of acid... Such a non event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chooka Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 Fark... a wheel fell off a car carrying a few containers of acid... Such a non event. In Thailand that is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunshine51 Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 It reminds me of that Kenny Roger's song--You picked a fine time to leave me Loose Wheel. From the looks of it, at least he was on a straight road...curves?....whoa! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunshine51 Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 (edited) I just gave the photo a good enlarged view. The guy in black & short sleeves on the right is taking video of the event. Perhaps for future training?! Edited November 13, 2012 by sunshine51 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farangbanok Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 (edited) They will "organize" a truck accident drill so they know how to clean up. Those Thais. Boy oh boy!! They know accidentally what to work on. After the accident, work on clean up drills. Don't worry about preventive safety and security and truck regulations and inspections so as to "prevent" the accidents. Boy oh boy these Thais - they sure have nailed it! These Thais, they are something else. Just one of about 50 or so reports of training exercises in the UK http://news.bbc.co.u...000/8376958.stm So why knock the Thai's???? They are beng sensible, since we all know such incidents will occur in the future. In the UK in 1990 a fully laden petrol tanker ploughed into a support pillar at Spaghetti Junction, caught fire, and caused the main access road into the City of Birmingham to be closed because concrete had melted. Hazmat accidents happen everywhere so take off your blinkers and look at the world outside your private one. Edited November 13, 2012 by farangbanok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carra Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 a report in the better english language paper said a motorcyclist was killed by being covered in the acid, this was an accident reported on rama 2, I guess its the same one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eeeya Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 (edited) No.. different accident. The fatality was an accident with a truck carrying bulk dangerous goods, not just a few pails. Far more serious than the one in this thread Apparently they couldn't determine the sex of the motorcycle rider due to acid burns Edited November 14, 2012 by eeeya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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