Video: Thai driver takes the biscuit for mad driving - but gets his just desserts!

[webfact]

Video: Thai driver takes the biscuit for mad driving - but gets his just desserts!

 

Picture: Thairath

 

BANGKOK: -- Our video this morning shows why many people think it is just not worth venturing onto the Thai roads - if you want to live a long and happy life that is!

 

The footage was captured by driver Suphawat Songklin from a dash cam. He was heading north on Pahonyothin Road in the Future Park, Rangsit area when an old car whizzed past him and started weaving in and out.

 

The car careens left then right but it is not long before the driver meets his match - the central barrier He then spins and hits the side on the road on the left.

 

Suphawat told Thairath that he recorded the incident when he was travelling in his car with his wife and child on Sunday. He said he believed the driver was a Thai male teenager.

 

It was very lucky that he didn't cause a serious accident, added Suphawat.

 

Nearly a million people have viewed the footage shared to Youlike with netizens condemning the loony driver in a swathe of comments.

 

Source: Thairath

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2017-02-21

 

[Thaiwrath]

Nothing unusual here, just a normal day on the Bangkok roads.

[Pungdo]

Tossa

 

[onemorechang]

500 baht fine.

And don't do it again,   till next time.

[AlexRich]

He thinks he's in a computer game! What an idiot.

[CelticBhoy]

I like how everyone slows down, has a wee look and then drives on.

I would too. Zero sympathy for clowns like that.

[trogers]

Some think that being able to start the engine and putting the car in forward gear means they are qualified to drive...

[fruitman]

Thank you police, you keep thailand vely safe.

[SABloke]

I wonder how many of the million "netizens" that viewed the video are currently...driving on the hard shoulder, pushing in at the front of a u-turn, running a red light light (no space to cross though because cars are backed up halfway through the intersection), riding their motorbike to 7/11 on the sidewalk etc etc etc etc... -_-

[Sphere]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Thai driver takes the biscuit for mad driving

I'm guessing he'd calm down and settle for a banana. 

Edited February 21, 2017 by Sphere

[KCPhuket]

What we have observed is that when the idiots get in a 4 wheeled vehicle they drive just as they do on the little motorbikes. Brilliant!

[leeneeds]

Young and bullet proof the world over,

[SABloke]

Young and bullet proof the world over,

Except here it's : Young/middle-aged/retired/(insert any age here) and bulletproof.

[ejpool44]

I'd say the accelerator was stuck on! No Thai driver would drive like that surely?

[onemorechang]

3 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

Nothing unusual here, just a normal day on the Bangkok roads.

Yes you are correct.

 

I think maybe  he was on his way back,   from one more example of normal behaviour.

Amazing Thailand.

 

Got to laugh.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EftV-p0nQGM

 

 

[cardinalblue]

Too bad he didn't flip it....

[Alan Deer]

Sadly this video does nothing to improve road safety in Thailand.

What it is a  racist attack designed to reinforce prejudices about Thai people.

there are no more stupid drivers in Thailand than any other country.

What WOULD help road safety is an intelligent analysis of WHY and HOW this incident took place.

[giddyup]

Just now, Alan Deer said:

Sadly this video does nothing to improve road safety in Thailand.

What it is a  racist attack designed to reinforce prejudices about Thai people.

there are no more stupid drivers in Thailand than any other country.

What WOULD help road safety is an intelligent analysis of WHY and HOW this incident took place.

No more stupid drivers in Thailand than any other country? What an ignorant, uninformed remark. Why is it that Thailand is #2 in the world for road deaths? Just bad luck i suppose.

[pumpjack]

nothing new here

[manarak]

4 minutes ago, Alan Deer said:

there are no more stupid drivers in Thailand than any other country.

 

this bit of your post suggests that you either haven't driven a lot in Thailand or haven't in other countries.

 

the driver in the video deserves that everyone from the other cars gets out, points fingers, starts laughing and record the whole thing on video and posts it on youtube alng with his name for the world to see.

would deserve a darwin award hands down but unfortunately didn't try hard enough

[Alan Deer]

4 minutes ago, giddyup said:

No more stupid drivers in Thailand than any other country? What an ignorant, uninformed remark. Why is it that Thailand is #2 in the world for road deaths? Just bad luck i suppose.

Sadly this is an example of how even the expat public are themselves incrediby ill-informed of the issues faccing road safety in Thailand.

[jonw8uk]

9 minutes ago, Alan Deer said:

Sadly this video does nothing to improve road safety in Thailand.

What it is a  racist attack designed to reinforce prejudices about Thai people.

there are no more stupid drivers in Thailand than any other country.

What WOULD help road safety is an intelligent analysis of WHY and HOW this incident took place.

Oh deer

 

do you drive here?

[giddyup]

4 minutes ago, Alan Deer said:

Sadly this is an example of how even the expat public are themselves incrediby ill-informed of the issues faccing road safety in Thailand.

You are a prime example of someone who refuses to see the wood for the trees.

[taff33]

Yes you are correct.
 
I think maybe  he was on his way back,   from one more example of normal behaviour.
Amazing Thailand.
 
Got to laugh.
 

 
 

Glue sniffers Thai style.

[mikebell]

Dear Mr Deer,

your comment is hopelessly wide of the mark.  One day you will be sitting patiently waiting to turn right at a a U-turn when two 17 year olds crash into you doing 90.  Despite having no licence and only one helmet between them, they will sue you and your insurance company for NINE million.  Racist cops will insist it is your fault and bring charges against you.  You will then  start looking beyond Thailand's borders.  I know.

[wow64]

Why didn't the driver stop to help?

 

I would have stopped to take a piss on him. Could have been a fire in the cabin. 

[SABloke]

Sadly this video does nothing to improve road safety in Thailand.
What it is a  racist attack designed to reinforce prejudices about Thai people.
there are no more stupid drivers in Thailand than any other country.
What WOULD help road safety is an intelligent analysis of WHY and HOW this incident took place.

I'd better tell my Thai friends that Alan Deer says they're racist for complaining about the shocking standard of driving in Thailand.

"Racist" the most overused word in recent times that has totally lost meaning.

[daveAustin]

46 minutes ago, Alan Deer said:

Sadly this video does nothing to improve road safety in Thailand.

What it is a  racist attack designed to reinforce prejudices about Thai people.

there are no more stupid drivers in Thailand than any other country.

What WOULD help road safety is an intelligent analysis of WHY and HOW this incident took place.

This video was posted by a Thai national. Please troll elsewhere, newbie.

[FunkyDunky58]

Alan Deer do you sit at home all day with the curtains closed? Yours are the only uninformed comments here. Anybody that has driven on Thailand roads KNOWS how bad the drivers are. Have you SEEN the driving test? All completed in 5 minutes in a small compound with no other drivers and the 'examiner' sitting at a table watching about 50% of the time. Or are you just yanking everybody's chain? When I bought my first car here, my girlfriend, who has a licence asked me (referring to the pedals) "which one is go and which one is stop?".

[dingdongrb]

1 hour ago, Sphere said:

I'm guessing he'd calm down and settle for a banana. 

" but gets his just desserts! "

 

I was thinking he was going to get a banana cream pie or perhaps a pineapple upside-down cake....

Edited February 21, 2017 by dingdongrb