One killed and several injured in a pileup involving four trucks

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One killed and several injured in a pileup involving four trucks



PRACHIN BURI: -- One woman was killed and several others sustained injuries in a pile-up involving three trucks and one pickup truck on ad downhill road in Prachin Buri province on Monday.

The victim was identified as Ms Naiyana Kosee, 25, who was believed to be travelling in the pickup truck.

Heading for Prachin Buri from Nakhon Ratchasima, the four vehicles were descending downhill from Khao Thone hill with the pickup truck travelling on the front.

The trailer truck loaded with eucalyptus wood chips developed brake failure and crashed into the rear of a truck carrying tapioca flour. The force of the collision sent the second truck to crash into the rear of the third truck laden with chemicals which struck the rear of the pickup truck.

Some of the vehicles were overturned and the victim was crushed to death in the pickup.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/one-killed-several-injured-pileup-involving-four-trucks/


-- Thai PBS 2016-07-05

[ratcatcher]

Crash, bang, wallop. Following too closely?

[wxpwzrd]

Wash, rinse, repeat...

Brake failure, downhill, incompetent drivers... One thing missing here is a runner...

[oldsailor35]

All going down hill. did any of the trucks have decent brakes, and i suppose they were all in top gear !

[seajae]

most trained/experienced drivers know to put the trucks into low gear on steep hills so it cannot pick up too much speed and they dont have to stand on the brakes constantly, problem is no truck drivers in Thailand are trained plus there should be signs stating to put trucks into low gear. The driver of the truck should be charged with manslaughter for this, this was all caused by his stupidity.

[nisakiman]

I drove semis interstate in Aus during the seventies, and one of the basic rules of driving was that you go down a hill in the same gear that you would be in if you were going up. Trucks are still equipped for the most part with drum brakes, and if you over-use them, then you will suffer from brake-fade as the linings glaze with the heat generated.

When I was driving, a lot of trucks were equipped with Jake Brakes, which was a system that used the engine for braking very efficiently on hill descents. You barely needed to touch the brakes at all.

In a fully loaded truck, going down a hill using only your brakes to slow you is a recipe for disaster.

[ratcatcher]

most trained/experienced drivers know to put the trucks into low gear on steep hills so it cannot pick up too much speed and they dont have to stand on the brakes constantly, problem is no truck drivers in Thailand are trained plus there should be signs stating to put trucks into low gear. The driver of the truck should be charged with manslaughter for this, this was all caused by his stupidity.

."... problem is no truck drivers in Thailand are trained..."

I disagree, simply because the major oil & chemical companies operating tanker trucks transporting hazardous fluids and large trucking companies do train their drivers.

I agree that MANY drivers out there are untrained and it's often the untrained drivers that end up in a pile up either due to grades or weather conditions.

Most of the steep hills in Thailand are well posted with "Low Gear" warnings in Thai & English. Many drivers do not drive according to weather conditions at the time.

Personally, I would bet, if I were allowed to, that all the vehicles were tailgating as they so often do and were unable to swerve or avoid hitting the vehicle in front.

[The stuttering parrot]

It's getting to the stage where it's not worth commenting on.

So many posters over so many years and most with all true and valid opinions and in agreement .

Pardon the pun but to the Thai authorities it's a dead issue.

[paddyjoe41]

Lack of training is the first issue,and out of date braking systems,most big trucks and trailers in europe are fitted with retarders,either on the gearbox or the driveshaft,and 99% of them are fitted with the engine brake some with 3 to4 braking positions.You look around here they have low powered trucks with 6 and 8 stud wheels coupled to small frail axels,gas cylinders that are unprotected,any one of these gas tanks if ruptured can blow the truck and all around it to bits.surveyed,until the government admits that they do not have the tecnology and experience to revamp the complete driving system in Thailand,this will continue to get worse and take more lives every day.The same goes for the buses,all should have the system that i describe here fitted by the manufacturer.Another thing they need to adopt the new taco system,where at any given time of day or night any large vehicle can be stopped and immediately it will tell the police or whoever has stopped it,how fast it has been going at any time of that day,how long it has been driven without a break,plus the digi card that fits to the taco box has the drivers name and all his details inside,just like a credit card.The driver cannot move the vehicle until he or she enters his drivers digi card,then it will display how long he is allowed to drive that day,also when he must have a break and how long he must take as a break.When they do this then more people will have a chance to live longer.

[Assurancetourix]

I drove semis interstate in Aus during the seventies, and one of the basic rules of driving was that you go down a hill in the same gear that you would be in if you were going up. Trucks are still equipped for the most part with drum brakes, and if you over-use them, then you will suffer from brake-fade as the linings glaze with the heat generated.

When I was driving, a lot of trucks were equipped with Jake Brakes, which was a system that used the engine for braking very efficiently on hill descents. You barely needed to touch the brakes at all.

In a fully loaded truck, going down a hill using only your brakes to slow you is a recipe for disaster.

As u, but not in Aus; in Europe;

we had on our trailor , not the truck, the trailor ! a Telma ; it's a electromagnetic retarder; working with " Eddy currents (also called Foucault currents) are loops of electrical current induced within conductors by a changing magnetic field in the conductor, due to Faraday's law of induction..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_current

http://www.telma.com/

Was on the last rear axle of our Fruehauf trailors ; can use when raining much or in the snow ( there is no snow in Thailand but sometimes much rain ) ;

+ retarder on exhaust pipe .

Two solutons for downwhill ; use the same gear as for climbing it or ......... ( unwise if you aren't a kamikaze ) use the neutral point , " la roulette " ( russian roulette sometimes ) as we did sometimes ; yes it was bad, very bad ..

Forty five years ago, we had Volvo F89 - 330 HP - with overdrive on all gears ( 16 forward gears + 4 reverse gear )

On the neutral point the gear is number "17 "

and truck wheels 1200 x 22,5 ;

now the wheels are 1000 in Europe; I saw 1100 in Thailand ..

[sandgroper2]

It's getting to the stage where it's not worth commenting on.

So many posters over so many years and most with all true and valid opinions and in agreement .

Pardon the pun but to the Thai authorities it's a dead issue.

Totally agree. Everytime there is a prang, same ol same ol posts about it. Did they write to the papers back home everytime there was a traffic accident?

[NoshowJones]

most trained/experienced drivers know to put the trucks into low gear on steep hills so it cannot pick up too much speed and they dont have to stand on the brakes constantly, problem is no truck drivers in Thailand are trained plus there should be signs stating to put trucks into low gear. The driver of the truck should be charged with manslaughter for this, this was all caused by his stupidity.

."... problem is no truck drivers in Thailand are trained..."

I disagree, simply because the major oil & chemical companies operating tanker trucks transporting hazardous fluids and large trucking companies do train their drivers.

I agree that MANY drivers out there are untrained and it's often the untrained drivers that end up in a pile up either due to grades or weather conditions.

Most of the steep hills in Thailand are well posted with "Low Gear" warnings in Thai & English. Many drivers do not drive according to weather conditions at the time.

Personally, I would bet, if I were allowed to, that all the vehicles were tailgating as they so often do and were unable to swerve or avoid hitting the vehicle in front.

Driving a truck requires lots of common sense, much more than driving a car or motorbike, and that

is not compatible with the majority of Thai drivers, ie any driver, trained or not, should see that a big truck or bus fully

loaded needs to change down gears when traveling down a hill.

Edited July 6, 2016 by possum1931

[Usual Suspect]

I sat at Pranburi driving Test Centre years ago & whatched a young lad pass his test for a 'wagon+drag'..he did almost the same test as the car-drivers were doing..then after about 20mins he was blasting the air-horn in triumph & blasting also out of the driving area..& I thought then..

..No wonder there's accidents when the roads have young idiots like this one.

Most trucks have mirrored.black glass, if not you'd see the age of some of these drivers...& at a young age bravado comes before common sense,

& it shows when we witness their driving..!

[SOTIRIOS]

...terrible...

[Redline]

Nobody in the government cares about road deaths. They don't view vehicles as a deadly weapon that needs to be maintained properly, and the laws of the road strictly enforced with proper penalties. Zero progress

[ramrod711]

Physics 101, mass x velocity in Thailand equals crash, especially when drivers don't know the basics of brake adjustments.