Phuket teacher escapes injury from high-speed crash

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Phuket teacher escapes injury from high-speed crash
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The driver of the black Honda, 26-year-old Narongrit Nontanit, suffered injuries to his right leg and chest in the collision. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

PHUKET: -- An American teacher from Headstart International School, Phuket escaped injury this morning (May 25) when a car driven by a 26-year-old man ploughed into her vehicle at speed while she was turning to enter the school.

Police arrived at the school with Ruamjai Kupai rescue workers at about 11am to find a Honda City on its roof near the school fence.

The driver, Narongrit Nontanit, had suffered injuries to his right leg and chest and was rushed to Mission Hospital Phuket in Rassada.

Nearby was a blue Ford Fiesta with damage to its front and front-right panel. The driver, Tina Marie Cummings, 51, a teacher at the school, suffered no injuries in the collision.

Full story: http://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-teacher-escapes-injury-from-high-speed-crash-57569.php


-- Phuket News 2016-05-25

[Somtamnication]

Not a good start at Headstart.

Headstart saves a head.

Any others?

[bearpolar]

so 3 option

boy racer with no regards to right turn signaling

unaware fiesta owner not using signals

unaware fiesta owner turning at 1kp/h

[tirekicker]

I'm not surprised this happened as the road running past the new Headstart is like a race track for boy racers with a blind bend about 100 meters from the entrance /exit.

[cumgranosalum]

like all collisions in Thailand it will be left to an untrained, unscientific police force to come up with an account of what happened - in the meantime various laypeople will speculate on what happened, what the road was like etc etc.......

So long as police road traffic investigations are back in the 19th C it is hard to see how road safety can improve in Thailand. There are several bodies tat actually know what they are talking about in this respect, but unfortunately it all seems to go way over the heads of the police and other authorities.

[inzman]

Brakes failed ? Road wet ? Some other piss poor excuse.

[Old Croc]

Eighty people die daily on Thailand's roads.

Why is this relatively innocuous bingle news?

[cumgranosalum]

Eighty people die daily on Thailand's roads.

Why is this relatively innocuous bingle news?

well - it's a stat - the truth is that too many people have collisions or die on Thai roads and although there are plans to deal with it, no government has as yet tried to grasp the nettle - partly because of the initial cost and partly because of the kind of ignorance that permeates an admin where people get their jobs through corruption rather than merit.

[NamKangMan]

Eighty people die daily on Thailand's roads.

Why is this relatively innocuous bingle news?

"Why is this relatively innocuous bingle news?" - possibly because it was only sheer luck that the people involved in this "innocuous bingle" did not join the other eighty across Thailand.

[cumgranosalum]

OK - what is a "bingle"?

[NamKangMan]

OK - what is a "bingle"?

I had to Google it. It means "collision." In this case, a car accident.

[whatproblem]

Speeding near the school ,what will be done ,sweet f#*+ all

[cumgranosalum]

Again - attributing single causes or individual blame does nothing to improve road safety.

[steelepulse]

Looking at the photos, the right front end of the teachers car shows damage, so I would think she was turning right and the dumb ass tried passing her as she was turning, thus putting him against the fence upside down.