Forty scouts and guides injured as bus flips returning from camp

 

Image: Thairath

 

Forty scouts and guides returning from a camp in Muak Lek, Saraburi, were injured when their bus overturned after hitting a pick-up.

 

The bus driver has been charged with negligent driving.

 

Two of the children - girl guides aged 12 and 13 - were seriously injured. Most of the rest were only slightly injured. All were initially treated at Wang Muang Hospital but twenty were later transferred to Phra Phutabaht Hospital.

 

The children and teachers - altogether there were 65 people on the bus - were returning to three schools in Ayuthaya province after a three day camp.

 

Bus driver Surachart Art-siri said that his vehicle was the last in a convoy of seven buses. His bus suffered brake failure, he said, and despite trying to use the gears to slow down he could not control the vehicle.

 

He hit a pick-up coming in the opposite direction before flipping and ending up in the trees. The driver of the pick-up was cut from his vehicle. He was hospitalized and named as Jakkrit Pattasingh, 26.

 

Surachart was arrested and charged with negligent driving causing injury. The accident happened on the Wang Muang - Muak Lek Road.

 

Source: Thairath

 

 

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Sixty five on a bus that seats only forty? No maintenance on the brakes? Sounds exactly like reckless negligence to me...

So much for ' adult leadership '.

A convoy of buses is one of the more terrifying things to encounter on Thai roads.

2 minutes ago, canuckamuck said:

A convoy of buses is one of the more terrifying things to encounter on Thai roads.

Especially when it's civil servants on their ' works outing ' and there's a Highway Police escort.

45 minutes ago, canuckamuck said:

A convoy of buses is one of the more terrifying things to encounter on Thai roads.

They should rename them "Trains" as thats what they do, sit  in the outside lane 2  inches from each other at 120kph............will they move over? nope

2 hours ago, rooster59 said:

His bus suffered brake failure, he said, and despite trying to use the gears to slow down he could not control the vehicle.

 

 

Glad the kids are all reasonably ok, they were very lucky

They need antiflipping devices that every other country has ,sorry the other countries antiflipping devices are competent drivers 

last in a convoy of 7buses so why did he have too brake ? tooooooooooo close to the in front of him? 

hiting a vehicle coming the other way,yet the 6 in front didnt, i can only asume BRAKES FAILED. 

that is how many in the past few weeks all with ?

hope the kids are all right.

59 minutes ago, Caps said:

Glad the kids are all reasonably ok, they were very lucky

"Two of the children - girl guides aged 12 and 13 - were seriously injured. "

Another flippin' bus. I blame the flippin' drivers.

His bus suffered brake failure, he said, and despite trying to use the gears to slow down he could not control the vehicle.   He hit a pick-up coming in the opposite direction before flipping and ending up in the trees.

If the person responsible for the buses maintenance is the bus driver then he is to blame. But if the maintenance is someone elses responsibility such as the school then the driver is not to blame.

A full investigation by the police should be carried out and charges brought after. Why is there always a rush to solve a tragic accident or incident or crime? Are there no detectives in Thailand? Investigate first then charge the suspect.

Or it could be the way the article is written and a thorough investigation has already taken place but the journalist didn't bother reporting it to the reader.

Just a thought!

4 hours ago, trogers said:

Sixty five on a bus that seats only forty? No maintenance on the brakes? Sounds exactly like reckless negligence to me...

sounds normal to me. The teachers also have responsibility.

36 minutes ago, Wilsonandson said:

If the person responsible for the buses maintenance is the bus driver then he is to blame. But if the maintenance is someone elses responsibility such as the school then the driver is not to blame.

A full investigation by the police should be carried out and charges brought after. Why is there always a rush to solve a tragic accident or incident or crime? Are there no detectives in Thailand? Investigate first then charge the suspect.

Or it could be the way the article is written and a thorough investigation has already taken place but the journalist didn't bother reporting it to the reader.

Just a thought!

 

As cheap as it is nowadays to install a monitor to record speed, G forces (braking and turning), throttle position, etc, they should be required on all commercial vehicles, starting with the vehicles that carry people for hire.  Every company I've worked for in the past 10 years has them on all company vehicles.  And people get fired when they show dangerous driving habits again and again- or lose their company car if their job doesn't require driving.

 

If it was up to me, I'd also require that they report variances (overspeed, jackrabbit starts, aggressive turns and braking) in real time for vehicles carrying passengers for hire- via cell technology.  Or at the very least, have them evaluated regularly to weed out the kamikaze drivers.

2 hours ago, poohy said:

 

 

This has got to be quote of the year ! so so true

Gibbons are not that stupid, they let Thai suicide jockeys drive these  P's O S 

28 minutes ago, Wilsonandson said:

The brakes failed! Could you stop a bus with no brakes, Superman?

 

If I ever have an accident.... I know what I'll be telling the BiB.

1 hour ago, Stupooey said:

Another flippin' bus. I blame the flippin' drivers.

No blame the incompetent owners of the buses which allow the overloading and the lack of properly trained drivers, plus of course the Government failing to ensure safety on the roads by proper enforcement, the driver is just a very small cog in a big wheel he has no say, no drive no money.  

"Brakes failed" the most overused excuse in this country! driver failed is the real translation. 

10 minutes ago, inzman said:

"Brakes failed" the most overused excuse in this country! driver failed is the real translation. 

Exactly. There are no brakes in the world that can prevent a bus from crashing when it's driven by a speeding, tailgating moron.

2 hours ago, edwinchester said:

"Two of the children - girl guides aged 12 and 13 - were seriously injured. "

yep, thanks for that I did read it 

1 hour ago, jerojero said:

Why will the PM not fix the bus driver problem in this country? Obvious problem, but ignored as lives are shattered by idiots allowed to drive these buses.

 

You could say that of every PM Thailand has had over the past 20 or more years.

I guess they weren't 'prepared'.....Amazing that none of them were killed...!

BreakS .... The first and last letters of this word are BS. That's what this over used excuse is for any accident, nothing but BS. 

3 hours ago, inzman said:

"Brakes failed" the most overused excuse in this country! driver failed is the real translation. 

 

Only on the roads.  Seems like "he/she made me real angry" would give it some competition off the roads.

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You know maybe if this had been a bus load of Chinese tourists the authorities might do something

On 12/17/2016 at 10:05 AM, soalbundy said:

sounds normal to me. The teachers also have responsibility.

BIG MISTAKE U MAKE........................."responsibility" no hab!