Video: Lopburi man's lucky day as motorbike whizzes past!

[farcanell]

31 minutes ago, Gassit said:

No - but better than a head high collision with the steel bucket on a small tractor/loader

Lucky for him, the bucket was at head height.... if in it's "proper" lowered position, the outcome may have been different.

 

[AlphaSoiDog]

The part that surprises me is that so far nobody is commenting on what the "lucky guy" did after the rider crashed and was possibly dead or dying. He walks away and doesn't even wander in the riders direction until other people run to the scene.

 

In shock? Probably, but I've been in a few accidents and still managed to think about life, death and very basic safety even through the pain (and usually more worried about others and my bike than about my own bleeding all over the road). I didn't experience what he did, but walking away until there are witnesses (or reminders of the other human?) seems a bit odd...

 

As for the arguments about whether the bucket was blocking the road. To me it appears not. However, there also appears no reason at all for it to be so close or for the bucket to be up. Even if not actually blocking the road, it's certainly crowding it and reducing options for others while providing a clear danger.

 

Humans react to the perception of danger. Many drivers will unconsciously hit the brakes on a good clear stretch of Australian highway just because there is a tree somewhere near the side of the road. This alone can contribute to accidents if the person following wasn't expecting it.

 

 

Edited March 27, 2017 by AlphaSoiDog
Makes more sense and a little more information.

[khwaibah]

16 minutes ago, thailand49 said:

Aside from driving on the other side of the road, you do know that vehicles were invented in the West and so were the rules of driving in Thailand which basically is completely the same as from the West. The only difference is Thai have taken those rules and turn them upside down to a point it can't be recognized. Those who justify the way they drive here as this being Thailand, even a Thai MP, year ago wrote in the Bangkok Post that those Thai who justify doing things wrong as this " is Thailand " like yourself are ignorant and blind to the truth, the more patriot the person the more stupid they are '. Stop while you are ahead and that isn't very far. I guess a person speeding being reckless driving being on the wrong side of the road and crashing is the bobcats fault. Did you even noticed anything aside from not wanting to be wrong and in doing so look even more silly in responding to continue to justify.

 

Guaranty the BIB's will wash their hands of this and tell all three parties to pay their own way.

[AGLV0121]

2 hours ago, rapom said:

I'm pretty sure, the bike that slides into view in the upper left, is a different color to the one that goes from right to left, moments before the accident

1/ Bobcat is stationed properly, No doubt.

2/ The bike passing from right to let is a scooter. Small wheels. The rider has no helmet, or dark, hard to tell.

3/ The bike that crashed (at high speed) is a motorbike. Big wheel (see rear wheel). Helmet appears to be white.

 

Hope he could swim back if not hurt and thanks to people rushing to help.

[Stargeezr]

I agree that the biker that clipped the guys flip flop, was already out of control as he came into the

video frame, looks like he slid on the dirt and was on his side sliding past the tractor. Likely seen it

too late and hit his brakes. If he survived at all he is lucky he did not slide into the tractor.

Wrong side of road, going too fast. Luck biker

Geezer

[jacko45k]

Knocked his shoe off... lucky guy!

[kcpattaya]

Lucky him...

[4MyEgo]

For what its worth, what I see is two bikes down, I doubt it very much that the 1st bike passing would have been involved, perhaps the other bike came out of no where and the bike that skidded past the petrol service station had clipped it, also noticing that there appears to be a street on the left of the service station as a car earlier in the clip turned into, now if a car came slightly outwards of that street to turn right or left and the bike that went down was speeding and the other bike was also pulling out, you have a bad combination and the above occured, that my hunch.

[sandemara]

I think someone should point out no motorbike in the v/clip is careening, despite what the accompanying report says.  I can't see any water, nor a dry-dockyard, let alone a boat .  I should think a motorbike would be among the last things a waterside worker  would reach for when he has to remove barnacles from a ship's keel.

[gdgbb]

 

On 27/03/2017 at 4:39 PM, khwaibah said:

Yes it is. Take it frame by frame and you will see what caused this and what happens. The gentleman that got his foot clipped is the number 1 cause as he parked the tractor to far out into the highway, the bike going against the traffic is the number 2 cause as he was forced further out which cause him to be clipped by the biker who was in the right and wearing a silver or gray  helmet. The biker that is seen clipping the gentleman is innocent.

There is no bike going against the traffic, there is a bike being ridden from right to left on his own side of the road.

[gdgbb]

On 27/03/2017 at 6:29 PM, khwaibah said:

 That bucket is over the so called  emergency lane which makes the biker going the wrong direction go further out into the on coming traffic. The rest is history.

Perspective doesn't allow you to see that from the CCTV video.

 

There is no biker going in the wrong direction.

 

[HaleySabai]

On 2017-03-27 at 3:55 PM, realenglish1 said:

Horseshoes were the sun doesn't shine Lucky Man

Both men are lucky...the biker was only inches from tagging the front-end of that loader ,square on. However, he certainly didn't have soft landing on the bank of the klong.

 

Im guessing there is a curve a short distance up the road that the biker miscalculated and threw him over into the other lane causing him to clip the scooter and laying down his bike - speed most certainly a factor.

There seems to be a lot of  'big-bike' crashes over the last several months.

 

Edited March 30, 2017 by HaleySabai

[whaleboneman]

On 3/28/2017 at 0:00 AM, sandemara said:

I think someone should point out no motorbike in the v/clip is careening, despite what the accompanying report says.  I can't see any water, nor a dry-dockyard, let alone a boat .  I should think a motorbike would be among the last things a waterside worker  would reach for when he has to remove barnacles from a ship's keel.

I must point out to you that many English words have more than one definition. Careening is one of them.