One dead as sign on Chiang Mai - Lampang Super Highway comes crashing down

 

Image: Daily News

 

A man was killed this morning when a Toyota crashed into a large sign on the Chiang Mai - Lampang Super Highway.

 

The accident happened at kilometer marker 472 in the Hang Chat district of Lampang on the road going towards Chiang Mai.

 

No other details were available at this time.

 

Source: Daily News

 

 

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So did the car hit the vertical support which resulted in the sign crashing down? 

 

The car does not appear to be struck from above?

 

Of all the sections of road to veer off he smacks the one spot that is not forgiving.

You can see damage to the structure where it's presumably landed on top of the car.

1 hour ago, ClutchClark said:

So did the car hit the vertical support which resulted in the sign crashing down? 

 

The car does not appear to be struck from above?

 

Of all the sections of road to veer off he smacks the one spot that is not forgiving.

this is what is called an ACCIDENT. pity the poor guy who died was in the wrong place.

19 minutes ago, taotoo said:

You can see damage to the structure where it's presumably landed on top of the car.

the structure integrity might already have been compromised before the accident and this was the final blow to bring the stage down.

The sign looks new,probably one of the supporting poles hadn't settled into the earth yet, like the wonky electricity posts.

Probable what happened, or might have, is that ,well,on second thoughts maby something else caused the accident, or, was it actually an accident. Then again, how do we know it actually happened at all. The only way we will really know is what is written on TV.Maby.

It seems he drove into the pole supporting the sign and it crashed down on him. It looks like a straight road, so why? But then, I have a long straight road outside my house and nine cars or lorries have managed to veer off within 200 metres in just 18 months. I'm glad I don't live on a bend, If they can't navigate a straight road......

Why do you call this an accident? My civil engineering friend (head of a local citty public works dept) made me stop the car as he got out and inspected at how signs' and billboards' structures would not meet city code requirements b/c this and this are missing, no proper welding,  blah blah...

 

Maybe it was a so-called accident waiting to happen? 

More quality thai engineering where do these people get their degrees

12 minutes ago, Thechook said:

More quality thai engineering where do these people get their degrees

 

The is a possibility that they are ordered from a catalog     Tears n Paybuk

12 minutes ago, Thechook said:

More quality thai engineering where do these people get their degrees

 

Chook,

 

I wonder how much of it is poor design and how much is poor construction practice absent any QC/QA Inspectors? 

If only the sign had been "blessed"properly beforehand this never would have happened 

I m hearing that the person who died was "one of us" an expat living here. Dont have more than that at this time but will report if I hear more.

That happens with vague wording:

 

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a Toyota crashed into a large sign

 

I looked at the Thai text and there it seem to say that this speeding Toyota crashed into the PILLAR of the sign and "ruined" it.

So not "bad Thai engineering" but bad driving from whoever.

 

And that explains that the photo of the sign still being above street level and the horrible damage does not match at all.

Now wait whether is was an expat at the wheel.

 

Cynical but true: this pillar must have been quite solid to damage a car like this.

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So again:

The accident happened in the night.

Speeding and probably fell asleep.

The driver was a 26 yr old local Thai man.

A bus was damaged slightly by the fallen sign.

And clearly: the sign was brought down by crashing of the car into the pillar.

 

Good to know it was the driver who brought down the sign and that it did not just fell down on the road killing people....

 

 

very sad event for some any which way

13 hours ago, oldlakey said:

very sad event for some any which way

The link to the report with the picture of the crying family was deleted.