Three Chinese tourists dead as tour bus crashes off Phuket hill

[JetsetBkk]

All has gone quiet. No changes by the authorities to make sure this doesn't happen again.

Swept away all in 24 hours. The bus was removed at night and all cleared by sunrise.

Don't want to hurt tourism just because 3 people died.

It is so bl**dy obvious what needs to be done.

From this:

To this:

[JetsetBkk]

Still not fixed after 10 days:

[LivinginKata]

^

No surprise, be another bus or truck over the hill and off the road in the near future. Your previous post displays how easy it would be to straighten that road, and not so much cost.

[Shot]

Back home in the US of A, crash sights that result in death are very often decorated with a small memorial and picture of the deceased. Most times these memorials are left unmolested for years and years and year and years. I wonder what Phuket roads would look like with same?

[LivinginKata]

Back home in the US of A, crash sights that result in death are very often decorated with a small memorial and picture of the deceased. Most times these memorials are left unmolested for years and years and year and years. I wonder what Phuket roads would look like with same?

Have you not noticed that Thai's tend to dump their old spirit houses at places where Thai's have died due to a vehicle accident.

[JetsetBkk]

Back home in the US of A, crash sights that result in death are very often decorated with a small memorial and picture of the deceased. Most times these memorials are left unmolested for years and years and year and years. I wonder what Phuket roads would look like with same?

Have you not noticed that Thai's tend to dump their old spirit houses at places where Thai's have died due to a vehicle accident.

Yes, as on Wiset road, north Karon, as you go north away from the beach past Centara Grand.

If you go a little further north in Street View mode of Google Earth, there's a traffic hold-up, with what looks like three crash helmets - presumably with heads inside - doing something in the drain, with half a dozen lookers-on and vehicles parked either side of the road.

[Valentine]

The curve where the latest bus crash happened has bad corrugations in the centre & side of the road which can easily cause vehicles to bounce when coming down the hill. Going up one can easily see side of the road will eventually slip away unless they do something to shore it up but being pro active does not seem to be a redeeming quality here. They are only now fixing one just near the top of the Patong hill leaving one lane open & causing a tailback to the go cart track yesterday. In the meantime the Patong City sign inexorably leans further out which will eventually result in a major landslide.