Drunk Cement Mixing Truck Driver Blamed For Jomtien Crash

[Rimmer]

Drunk Cement Mixing Truck Driver blamed for Jomtien crash

PATTAYA:--A Cement Mixing Truck driver was arrested in the early hours of Saturday after he was suspected of causing a collision between his vehicle and an SUV.

Police and rescue workers were called to the Soi Watboon intersection with Jomtien Second Road to deal with the crash which saw two passengers of a White Chevrolet Captiva sustain serious injuries. They were rushed to the Bangkok Hospital Pattaya for emergency treatment.

The driver of the cement truck is Khun Amporn aged 52 who Police determined was extremely drunk. He had to be helped to a nearby Police Truck as he was unsteady on his feet.
Full story:http://www.pattayaone.net/pattaya-news/85839/drunk-cement-mixing-truck-driver-blamed-jomtien-crash/

-- Pattaya One 2013-05-04

[Boater]

Drink driving and causing a crash should be a penalty of a prison term ! Maybe they will think twice , but driving a cement truck while pissed is really something else

[bigwilly]

There are accidents on this intersection practically every day, no give way or stop signs from either direction, disaster from day one. It is hard enough to cross safely when sober never mind sloshed, they should throw away the key on this guy.

Lets hope the victims soon recover and have health/ accident insurance!

BW.

Edited May 4, 2013 by bigwilly

[fakename]

They should could throw away the key, for the persons that plans these dangerous intersections. Seems there is no planing, just someone is told to do some road building, and they do it, the same way it was done 50 years ago,

[kiniyow]

Jomtien 2nd Road has Big traffic now..How many crashes does it take to put a few Lights up? Half this road don't have street lights and not a stop light in sight...

[kiniyow]

Drunk Driving~~Big problem with Minor consequences if your Thai

Edited May 4, 2013 by kiniyow

[jbrain]

They have done a great design job at the soi wat boon - jomtien 2nd road cross section.

I wonder if it was designed by a blind man.

[Langsuan Man]

Probably one of the only accidents here where the driver didn't run away, so I guess there is one advantage of being so drunk that.....He had to be helped to a nearby Police Truck as he was unsteady on his feet

[lestat6009]

Probably one of the only accidents here where the driver didn't run away, so I guess there is one advantage of being so drunk that.....He had to be helped to a nearby Police Truck as he was unsteady on his feet

I saw the accident a few min after it happened. The driver couldn't run away because he flipped the cement truck on its side driver side down after hitting the SUV. I'm surprised there were not any deaths given the crash. We were sure that a few people must have died given the accident site so glad to hear that nobody died (yet). The truck must have been going pretty fast because it skidded ~40 meters after the crash on its side.

My girlfriend always comments on that intersection and always says "same same Vietnam... not have any light and people drive crazy".

[bobbin]

Shame shame shame on the traffic department of Pattaya City.

After a long period of anarchy at this intersection, they finally installed traffic lights about 3 months ago.

Pity they haven't bothered to turn them on.....

[dazk]

we have called it suicide junction for a while now

i see they have put up traffic control lights but as yet they dont work and i dont expect to see them working any time soon