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Phuket taxi driver charged after cab flips in home-bound drive

Eakkapop Thongtub

 

 

PHUKET:-- A Phuket taxi driver was charged with reckless driving causing damage to government property today (Mar 13) after his vehicle struck a pole and flipped onto its roof after dropping passengers off at Phuket International Airport.

 

The driver, Piyapat Saeong, 47, told police that he was driving home to Naiharn at about 3:30pm when a Honda Jazz pulled out in front of him while he was passing the U-turn near the Khun Mae Ju store on Thepkrasattri Rd north of Thalang Town.

 

“The car just drove off,” he told police, who arrived at the scene with rescue workers to find the “green plate” (commercial passenger vehicle) on its roof in the inside southbound lane.

 

Nearby was a utility pole bowled over by the force of the impact.

 

Lt Suphon Muangkhai of the Thalang Police confirmed that Mr Piyapat suffered only a sore chest in the dramatic crash as he was wearing a seatbelt at the time of the accident.

 

Full Story: http://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-taxi-driver-charged-after-cab-flips-in-home-bound-drive-61376.php#4ovYHTSsHoiJe1rt.97

 

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[xylophone]

Well there was no rain to blame!!

[Bangkok Barry]

Ah, yet another accident due to 1 - careless driving 2 - one of those dangerous u-turns. Nothing new.

[sanukjim]

39 minutes ago, xylophone said:

Well there was no rain to blame!!

Because the rain to blame is falling mainly on the plain.Here it is the need for speed that weeds out the quick and the dead.

[Psimbo]

If you access the video you will see that a vehicle pulled out from the right side of the road, directly in front of a parked vehicle. he was planning to cross directly in front of the taxi .Taxi swerved, probably as he was picking nose, playing with phone, etc.  

 

Excessive speed looks like the root cause but the car driver clearly was pulling out when it wasn't safe. https://www.facebook.com/VolunteerRescuePhuket/videos/1849283242005643/

 

[xylophone]

9 minutes ago, Psimbo said:

If you access the video you will see that a vehicle pulled out from the right side of the road, directly in front of a parked vehicle. he was planning to cross directly in front of the taxi .Taxi swerved, probably as he was picking nose, playing with phone, etc.  

 

Excessive speed looks like the root cause but the car driver clearly was pulling out when it wasn't safe. https://www.facebook.com/VolunteerRescuePhuket/videos/1849283242005643/

 

Looking at the video, IMO the guy probably has a point because he was going the same speed as the rest of the traffic when the small car nosed its way out, when it shouldn't have done.

 

Who's to say what would have happened if he had been "reading the road" as we were taught to all those years ago, but which seems to be non-existent here in Thailand.