Southern train kills a student, injures two

BANGKOK: -- A Bangkok-Yala passenger train hit a family motorcycle at an unmanned railway crossing in Thung Song district of Nakhon Si Thammarat this morning, killing a 15-year-old student and wounding his mother and brother.

Witnesses said the railway crossing has no barricade.

Without noticing an incoming train, Mrs Somporn Prapurtdee, 40, rode in a motorcycle with two sons on the pillion to cross the railway crossing.

It was the time when the speeding train arrived at the crossing as the motorbike was on the tracks.

The family was hit in the middle killing her son Tanapol instantly. She and another son were seriously injured and were rushed to Thung Song hospital.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/southern-train-kills-a-student-injures-two

-- Thai PBS 2015-06-25

I know unmanned crossing can be dangerous but using common sense and actually looking before crossing would go a long way to stopping these deaths. While I am sorry someone has died we have to wonder why the rider never noticed the train or if they were trying to beat it as it must have been very close to them to actually collect the bike and they are not silent plus have lights showing on them so they are not invisible. Maybe actually looking before crossing would avoid this sort of thing but a lot of people simply dont bother to look anywhere except where they want to go.

Do trains sound their whistle at unmanned crossings? I've not been at one with an oncoming train so I don't know.

Who in there right mind, would cross a Rail way Line, without looking left and right ????

Thais do it all the time, I see it on a daily basis, driving off without looking either in a car or on a scooter..

Fed up to death saying , Safety in any shape or form is non existent in Thailand....

Will they learn, hope so.....

Sad for the boy.... Hope the other two make a full recovery....

Who in there right mind, would cross a Rail way Line, without looking left and right ????

Thais do it all the time, I see it on a daily basis, driving off without looking either in a car or on a scooter..

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You have answered your own question.

Thais have no road sense whatsoever.

Most have no licences and police never enforce traffic laws.

We will be discussing a similar accident again in just a few days time.

Do trains sound their whistle at unmanned crossings? I've not been at one with an oncoming train so I don't know.

Horns, whistles went out with steam. But yes they do at every one every time (supposedly).