Woman crushed, power disrupted following Sattahip car crash

[Rimmer]

Woman crushed, power disrupted following Sattahip car crash

SATTAHIP:--A woman driver was critically injured after a tire blew, sending her Honda careening through eight light poles in Sattahip.

Royal Thai Navy Sgt. Natrin Chaiyatsatien was taken to Queen Sirikit Naval Medical Center following the 2 a.m. Sept. 17 accident on Sukhumvit Road near Plutaluang. Paramedics worked for an hour to free Natrin from her demolished Accord and her lower body was crushed.

She told police that as she came through the bend, her left front tire exploded. She lost control and plowed into the sidewalk, taking down light poles. The cascade brought down eight poles, which smashed the windows of four nearby townhouses and a car. Damage was estimated in the millions of baht.

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-- Pattaya Mail 2014-09-26

[inzman]

I've had tires go flat, even had one beak off the car and pass me once, my car always ended up stopped in a controlled fashion, never an accident. What is with drivers that lose control when they lose a tire. Modern vehicles are designed to not lose control when you lose a tire. Do you think there was extenuating circumstance ?

[umbanda]

I've had tires go flat, even had one beak off the car and pass me once, my car always ended up stopped in a controlled fashion, never an accident. What is with drivers that lose control when they lose a tire. Modern vehicles are designed to not lose control when you lose a tire. Do you think there was extenuating circumstance ?

Anti lock brake system help in those cases, and in any case where the first reaction is to push the brake, and not all cars have it....

Still an option even in some new cars....

[bazza5335]

8 power poles.... wonder if excessive speed had any bearing....?

[wiesner]

i think the reason for so many power poles is the first one fell and the wires took the rest down.

[iReason]

I've had tires go flat, even had one beak off the car and pass me once, my car always ended up stopped in a controlled fashion, never an accident. What is with drivers that lose control when they lose a tire. Modern vehicles are designed to not lose control when you lose a tire. Do you think there was extenuating circumstance ?

Speeding comes to mind...

[craigt3365]

I'm no expert, but I think you'd have to be fairly fast to have damages like that. They look like they've come from a high speed accident. Living not too far from there, that highway resembles a speedway at times.

[tomyumchai]

looking at the state of that car im sure she was only doing 50kmph............maybe the poles were doing the other 80kmph when they jumped out in front of her.......

[bazza5335]

sending her Honda careening through eight light poles in Sattahip.

Thats the quote.....looks like it too, with the car damage.

[circusman]

I've had tires go flat, even had one beak off the car and pass me once, my car always ended up stopped in a controlled fashion, never an accident. What is with drivers that lose control when they lose a tire. Modern vehicles are designed to not lose control when you lose a tire. Do you think there was extenuating circumstance ?

Can your car balance on 3 tires only ? No modern car I know can.

[balo]

Sorry but this is poor driving skills , dontt blame it entirely on the tire.....

[Daffy D]

She told police that as she came through the bend, her left front tire exploded.

Very hard to control a car with a blow-out on a bend

[Nemesis7]

Hope she gets well soon

[emilymat]

First, should that not be 'crashed' in the OP?. Also, if she was critically injured she was still able to make quite a lucid statement to the cops. Something does not seem quite right.

Anyway, good luck to her in her recovery. Hope she's insured.

[guzzi850m2]

She certainly crashed in dramatic fashion.

When looking at the picture of the car, I am surprised that she survived.

Most Thais completely fails to understand how dangerous high speed driving are and many learn the hard way (or die).

Edited September 26, 2014 by guzzi850m2

[petercool]

A post that had an unnecessary slur comment was removed,

Other posts were removed for assuming facts that were not in the article and/or were generally nonsense troll posts.

[espinoza]

Thais does never following the manufacturer norms according air pressure in the tires. My father in law pumped my Vigo, which shall have 29 PSI till 60 PSI. One tire blew up a few days later. I took the car to a workshop to check the other tires and they all had cracks inside crosswise. I had to change all the tires 25K. But I told the old man to stay away from the air-pump when using my truck.

[maynard420]

I've had tires go flat, even had one beak off the car and pass me once, my car always ended up stopped in a controlled fashion, never an accident. What is with drivers that lose control when they lose a tire. Modern vehicles are designed to not lose control when you lose a tire. Do you think there was extenuating circumstance ?

Read it again, she came out of a bend, and I have lived in Thailand for 14 years and knowing the way the car crashed, she was probably doubling the speed in the bend and the tire could not take the pressure, therefore the crazy accident, it blew and she lost it in a turn, I have blown a tire in a slow turn before in a nice loaded SUV with all the traction control on and I lost it, but not as bad as her.

[ATF]

Probably texting or updating her Facebook page.

Edited September 26, 2014 by ATF

[jacko45k]

8 power poles.... wonder if excessive speed had any bearing....?

Of course, you don't do so much damage with and to an Accord unless there was a lot of inertia involved.

Blaming extraneous events comes as standard.

[glasswort]

8 power poles.... wonder if excessive speed had any bearing....?

Not to mention the time - 2.00 a.m.

[monkey4u]

8 power poles.... wonder if excessive speed had any bearing....?

No way.

The power poles were VERY close to each other

[WitawatWatawit]

"She told police that as she came through the bend, her left front tire exploded. "

Huh? When a similar thing happened to me, I did not know the cause until the tow truck arrived and a mechanic inspected the vehicle. Yet she is seriously injured, and still is able to know what happened at the precise moment it did, and convey that to the police? Think about it - the whole episode would have taken only a few seconds, the actual tyre blowing and car rolling a mere second. She is bounced around and battered. Yet she is compis mentis enough to know instantly that it was a blown tyre? Maybe, but I seriously doubt it. I think cover up.