Russians injured in backhoe smash on dark road

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Russians injured in backhoe smash on dark road

Phuket Gazette 

 

          

The victims collided into a backhoe parked at a road construction site. Photo: Winai Sarot

 

PHUKET: -- Three Russian were injured when the car they were in smashed into a backhoe parked on the Manik-Cherng Talay Road in Srisoonrthon early this morning.

“The foreigners, named Vitaliy Savenko, 49, Natalia Eremikhina, 23 and Pavel Martynov, 23, were heading toward the Heroines’ Monument about 5:30am. They came across a road construction site where the backhoe was parked, and could not brake in time to avoid a collision,” Lt Sunan Petnhu of the Thalang Police told the Phuket Gazette. 

 

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-- © Copyright Phuket Gazette 2016-10-31

[Pimay1]

Par for the course. Leave construction equipment in the road with no warning. Not even a twig.

[colinneil]

Hoe hoe hoe, and not even christmas .

[Old Croc]

6 minutes ago, Pimay1 said:

Par for the course. Leave construction equipment in the road with no warning. Not even a twig.

Might be an idea to check the link to see if there were any warning signs.

[Old Croc]

Interestingly, two women on a bike were injured there in the same way a few hours earlier. Not as newsworthy as Russians?

Warning signs displayed, but not lit up on a dark road, and possibly the vehicles were going too fast for the conditions.

[Pimay1]

13 minutes ago, Old Croc said:

Might be an idea to check the link to see if there were any warning signs.

There were speeding signs warning them to slow down but there was no indication of a backhoe sitting in the dark road.

Edited October 31, 2016 by Pimay1

[Old Croc]

10 minutes ago, Pimay1 said:

There were speeding signs warning them to slow down but there was no indication of a backhoe sitting in the dark road.

Perhaps they were fresh out of the very specific "Komatsu Backhoe in Road" warning signs, so they thought a slow down sign should be sufficient even for pedants.

For me the problem was the lack of lighting.

[waldroj]

8 minutes ago, Old Croc said:

Perhaps they were fresh out of the very specific "Komatsu Backhoe in Road" warning signs, so they thought a slow down sign should be sufficient even for pedants.

For me the problem was the lack of lighting.

 

Trouble is, the Russians probably don't understand what "ลด ความเร็ว" means !!!

 

Pity they didn't have one of the hi-tech signs:

 

[Soupdragon]

The small unlit sign is right at the point the road changes from tarmac to dirt with no prior warning. No cones, no nothing further back up the road to warn people the lane they are in is about to end abruptly.

[Old Croc]

I wouldn't understand the wording either, but would slow down and take care if I spotted this on the road. It's somewhat more visible than Pimay's twig. The positioning of the vehicles in this photo raises some questions also.

This is the sign in question

[retell]

there was no warning-sign for a parked backhoe cos this thing is clearly an excavator

[retell]

by the looks of the photos it seems that the excavator is not standing on the road but on the dirt ,,

[monkey4u]

1 hour ago, retell said:

by the looks of the photos it seems that the excavator is not standing on the road but on the dirt ,,

Maybe the Ruskies wanted to go 4 wheel driving after they left the bar

[Lokie]

Backhoe, Excavator, JCB, Digger etc - who cares, thing is the machine is not even on the road but in the dirt at the side of road, from the picture question is how does a car end up perfectly straight rammed up the machines backside? Think more than speed may have played a part in this incident, hopefully no major injuries to anyone

[gandalf12]

Situations like dark roads is why you have headlights on motorised vehicles. All they have to do now is learn how to drive safely and use the headlights.

[gandalf12]

3 hours ago, Old Croc said:

I wouldn't understand the wording either, but would slow down and take care if I spotted this on the road. It's somewhat more visible than Pimay's twig. The positioning of the vehicles in this photo raises some questions also.

This is the sign in question

It says "slow down"

[stevenl]

1 hour ago, Lokie said:

Backhoe, Excavator, JCB, Digger etc - who cares, thing is the machine is not even on the road but in the dirt at the side of road, from the picture question is how does a car end up perfectly straight rammed up the machines backside? Think more than speed may have played a part in this incident, hopefully no major injuries to anyone

A motorbike hitting the same backhoe a bit earlier could indicate it is not as straight forward as it looks.

[jackofbkk]

russians like to drink all night

[PETERTHEEATER]

The drive on the right in Russia so probably saw the backhoe, reasoned that it was in the slow lane so pulled out to overtake..........

[ujayujay]

7 hours ago, Old Croc said:

Perhaps they were fresh out of the very specific "Komatsu Backhoe in Road" warning signs, so they thought a slow down sign should be sufficient even for pedants.

For me the problem was the lack of lighting.

No, it was inattention and too fast on an unlit street.

[jvs]

Well the Russians made sure people would see them!

[Soupdragon]

15 hours ago, Lokie said:

Backhoe, Excavator, JCB, Digger etc - who cares, thing is the machine is not even on the road but in the dirt at the side of road, from the picture question is how does a car end up perfectly straight rammed up the machines backside? Think more than speed may have played a part in this incident, hopefully no major injuries to anyone

 

No the digger is in the left lane of a dual carriageway. If the picture had been taken a few metres back you can see that that lane goes from tarmac to dirt right at the point that sign is placed with nothing further back down the road to warn drivers.