Video: Car hits express train - but you may not see a crazier accident all Songkran week

 

Image: Thai News Agency

 

BANGKOK: -- Car collisions with trains at crossings usually involve drivers ignoring barriers and flashing lights before the train actually arrives.

 

But in today's video the Bangkok to Hat Yai express No 31 is going at full speed through the crossing when a car approaches.

 

The Honda car with Songkhla plates goes through the barrier and smashes into the train. The car is flung along and the driver is thrown from the vehicle suffering injury, reported Thai News Agency.

 

The poster of the CCTV footage said the barrier was working normally.

 

No one else was hurt though the car was a write-off and there was serious damage to carriage number 10 on the express. It was part of new rolling stock introduced recently to the line.

 

The accident happened by the station of Khuan Niang at 6.10 am on Monday.

 

The CCTV footage was posted on Facebook by "Trainlism". The poster gave no explanation for why the driver might have decided to run the crossing.

 

Source: Thai News Agency

 

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I guess the brakes failed.

I suppose he will seek a refund on the amulets he brought to protect from such inconvenience as having to wait for a train.

3 minutes ago, jaywalker said:

I guess the brakes failed.

Something failed as well as the brakes

54 minutes ago, jaywalker said:

I guess the brakes failed.

A clear case of brain failure, THE  most common cause of accidents.

He thought he could cross before the train arrived, looking in the opposite direction

If it was a farang driving it would simple be put down to attempted suicide I guess.

..well it is the same driving behavior and procedure for turning into lane of the flow of traffic....

clunk click every trip ! 

Probably checking to see if his selfie on Facebook got a lot of likes.

 

Another blind Thai driver,in this case blind drunk i think,

regards worgeordie

2 hours ago, jaywalker said:

I guess the brakes failed.

more like the brain

cant teach stupid 

no brain no brake la la la la

Standard Thai driving, keep pushing the nose in to force others to yield. Didn't occur to the brainiac a train won't care.

6 minutes ago, DrTuner said:

Standard Thai driving, keep pushing the nose in to force others to yield. Didn't occur to the brainiac a train won't care.

You are all completely wrong.

It's obvious the train was too long.

Time to tighten up on the eyesight test at the Driving license office. What a <deleted>.

3 hours ago, jaywalker said:

I guess the brakes failed.

Did you mean to say:

"I guess the brain failed."

?

 

3 hours ago, Reigntax said:

Something failed as well as the brakes

Brain??

 

Very different outcome if the car had gone between the bogeys and under the carriage.

obviously not wearing a seat belt as well as not wearing a brain.

 

i'v seen the locals trying to cross just before the train arrives, but trying to cross as the train is passing is a certainly a new category of thainess.

1 hour ago, patekatek said:

Probably checking to see if his selfie on Facebook got a lot of likes.

 

 

And / or very consumed with talking to someone on his/her smartphone.

Might be a diabetic who missed their insulin shot.

That woke him up !

I didn't see anybody in the car , maybe there is a slight downward slope and the hand brake hadn't been applied .

Is he still texting, lying down beside the control box?

The accident happened by the station of Khuan Niang at 6.10 am on Monday.

 

Time to stop calling events like this an 'accident.'  It was a collision or crash.

Bizarrely inaccurate news article that tries to make fun of a pretty ugly accident.

The car didn't 'smash' into the train, but drifted. It didn't try to 'run the crossing'. Driver was probably looking at his/her phone and didn't notice the car drifting.

It was the back-seat passenger (apparently) not the driver that was thrown out - and it certainly doesn't look like 'no one was hurt'.

There was no barrier - only lights.

12 minutes ago, Toscano said:

I didn't see anybody in the car , maybe there is a slight downward slope and the hand brake hadn't been applied .

You're right, does look like nobody in the drivers seat. But maybe the impact of being thrown around by the train threw him into the back seat, then the impact with the pole threw him out the back door ?

 

Got to thank that guy for the physics lesson. Force = Mass x Acceleration. Inertia did the rest and slung his ass out that car when it hit the pole. He didn't "clunk, click, every trip" otherwise he might be in his seat. Amazing energy transfer. He won't be doing that again ...... nah never say never.