Motorcyclist’s death prompts action to fix airport road

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Motorcyclist’s death prompts action to fix airport road

Phuket Gazette 

 

      

Locals put up a sign on one of the barriers, asking authorities how many people they want to see dead before they decide to fix the road. Photo: Winai Sarot

 

PHUKET: -- Following the death of a 22-year-old motorcyclist who broke his neck Thursday night ramming into a concrete blockade on the lane alongside the Phuket Airport runway, authorities have requested a 72 million baht budget to fix and widen the road.

The lane had once been a through road but was blocked off with four heavy-duty blocks in August after heavy rains caused a landslide.

Following the fatal accident on November 24, locals put a sign on the barrier that read: ‘How many more deaths do you want before you fix it?' and posted photos of the road block on social media.

Facebook user Sulaimarn Kaewngamdee on Monday posted 14 pictures and 12 videos highlighting the dangerous conditions and demanding answers from the authorities.

 

Full story: http://www.phuketgazette.net/phuket-news/Motorcyclists-death-prompts-action-fix-airport-road/65933?desktopversion

 

-- © Copyright Phuket Gazette 2016-12-01

[LivinginKata]

From the photo it looks like m/bikes are still using this blocked off road.

[arithai12]

 

2 hours ago, LivinginKata said:

From the photo it looks like m/bikes are still using this blocked off road.

And, at least in the case of the deceased, at full speed.

 

 

[sandgroper2]

49 minutes ago, arithai12 said:

 

And, at least in the case of the deceased, at full speed.

 

 

From the photos it does look like the deceased was going full speed, I estimate 107 kph

[licka]

42 minutes ago, sandgroper2 said:

From the photos it does look like the deceased was going full speed, I estimate 107 kph

How do you estimate the speed, it would be interesting to know

[hobobo]

39 minutes ago, licka said:

How do you estimate the speed, it would be interesting to know

No worries, he was just trying to be a clever Dick

[elgordo38]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Facebook user Sulaimarn Kaewngamdee on Monday posted 14 pictures and 12 videos highlighting the dangerous conditions and demanding answers from the authorities.

Nice gesture but Facebook hmm could turn against him. The words prompts requested is where the true problem lies. Funding these things always seem to hit a roadblock as well.

[lvr181]

Just do not use at night or in low visibility conditions.

[TEFLKrabi]

43 minutes ago, hobobo said:

No worries, he was just trying to be a clever Dick

Half right.

[Psimbo]

Looking at the mud to the left of the picture it looks like bikes have just been going around the side of the blocks.

 

One would hope that the road should be widened anyway for use in emergency situations. Common sense dictates............................oh hand on- just remembered where we are. Cancel my last.

[Jonmarleesco]

And the rest, of which there are numerous examples - plus pavements?

[Wazza1]

Most motorcycles are equipped with devices to prevent them from ramming into concrete blocks, I believe they are called brakes.

[sandgroper2]

18 hours ago, licka said:

How do you estimate the speed, it would be interesting to know

The same way people know he was speeding.

[sandgroper2]

22 hours ago, LivinginKata said:

From the photo it looks like m/bikes are still using this blocked off road.

Looks to me as if the road block is turning people back.

[d123]

12 hours ago, Wazza1 said:

Most motorcycles are equipped with devices to prevent them from ramming into concrete blocks, I believe they are called brakes.

 

 

Motorcycles are also fitted with cunning devices that assist in driving at night, I believe they're called lights. Sometimes however it appears the clowns that ride some of these motorcycles don't seem to know how to turn this particular device on.

[Stargeezr]

It takes a death or several to get changes done, especially in some parts

of Thailand  where corruption is a big problem, and Phuket does have

this problem in spades

Geezer

[licka]

On ‎02‎/‎12‎/‎2016 at 11:27 AM, sandgroper2 said:

 The same way people know he was speeding.

Yes , but to claim he was doing 170 KPH is just a wild guess

Can he pick lottery numbers as well 

[sandgroper2]

On 12/3/2016 at 6:39 PM, licka said:

Yes , but to claim he was doing 170 KPH is just a wild guess

Can he pick lottery numbers as well 

your being ridiculous, i did not say he was going 170

[Fookhaht]

From the photos it does look like the deceased was going full speed, I estimate 107 kph

Way off. My calculations put it at 106.


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[sandgroper2]

52 minutes ago, Fookhaht said:

Way off. My calculations put it at 106.


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52 minutes ago, Fookhaht said:

Way off. My calculations put it at 106.


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I would need to see the full workings out but the kid is in the way. You may be right, it was 55 years since i went to school.

[licka]

On ‎03‎/‎12‎/‎2016 at 6:39 PM, licka said:

Yes , but to claim he was doing 170 KPH is just a wild guess

Can he pick lottery numbers as well 

Sorry 107  I hit the wrong buttons, it happens in old age