When driving in Thailand always expect the unexpected

[Jonathan Fairfield]

 

[Borzandy]

Common in Thailand, but sometimes the wheel avoid the following car....

[Tchooptip]

Good luck it was not a motorbike instead of the car that received the wheel in the face. 

[JungleBiker]

A more common event is a motorcyclist dropping a crash helmet on the road. 

[loong]

I'm getting a number of topics that have an empty OP. Obviously others can see something as there are replies. Why can't I see anything??

[colinneil]

1 minute ago, loong said:

I'm getting a number of topics that have an empty OP. Obviously others can see something as there are replies. Why can't I see anything??

Try opening your eyes.

 

 

 

[whaleboneman]

1 hour ago, loong said:

I'm getting a number of topics that have an empty OP. Obviously others can see something as there are replies. Why can't I see anything??

Are you an Elite member?

[NoshowJones]

1 hour ago, JungleBiker said:

A more common event is a motorcyclist dropping a crash helmet on the road. 

I saw a guy on the highway with his crash helmet in his basket only last week, yes, on a three lane highway.

 

Three days later a guy pulled up along side me and his crash helmet was not strapped on, this was on a two lane carriageway.

Edited June 23, 2017 by possum1931

[yardrunner]

2 minutes ago, possum1931 said:

I saw a guy on the highway with his crash helmet in his basket only last week, yes, on a three lane highway.

 and i saw a girl driving a motorbike with her helmet on, she got past a police checkpoint and took her helmet off while still driving

[terminatorchiangmai]

1 hour ago, loong said:

I'm getting a number of topics that have an empty OP. Obviously others can see something as there are replies. Why can't I see anything??

reload your page , maybe you have more pages open at the same time. 

[marquis22]

2 hours ago, Borzandy said:

Common in Thailand, but sometimes the wheel avoid the following car....

A similar thing happened in Melbourne Australia a few years ago on a freeway. A wheel came out of a passing ute and hit a man standing on the side of the road as he was helping a friend whose car had stalled. Seeing it's illegal for a pedestrian to be on a freeway the fatality was a 'one in a million".

[ChesneyHawkes]

Be glad it was a spare wheel and not the gas canister that fell off!

[White Tiger]

The Miracle Channel on Thai tv shows a lot of this sort of stuff. There was a food vendor at the side of the road who was killed the other week when a wheel came off a lorry and rolled or crashed into her food stall knocking it and her over.

[tandor]

22 minutes ago, White Tiger said:

The Miracle Channel on Thai tv shows a lot of this sort of stuff. There was a food vendor at the side of the road who was killed the other week when a wheel came off a lorry and rolled or crashed into her food stall knocking it and her over.

...wheels-in-meals...RIP.

[MaiChai]

Had a big stone thrown up from some roadworks in Thailand once that smashed the windscreen. Luckily it was back in the days when getting a windscreen replaced was relatively cheap, and we just looked for a shop to replace it.

 

Current pickup has a webcam just incase something like this happens...

Edited June 23, 2017 by MaiChai

[Ulic]

I cant believe how high that wheel bounced.

 

[wcoast]

Happening to me as well, can't see any of the OP content. Something's amiss, using Tapatalk here.

 

Sent from my SM-A910F using Tapatalk

 

 

 

 

[balo]

A bike rider could have ended up dead. That tire is heavy! 

[katana]

5 hours ago, wcoast said:

Happening to me as well, can't see any of the OP content. Something's amiss, using Tapatalk here.

 

Sent from my SM-A910F using Tapatalk

 

 

 

 

 

11 hours ago, loong said:

I'm getting a number of topics that have an empty OP. Obviously others can see something as there are replies. Why can't I see anything??

The OP is just an embedded Facebook video, no text. For me the video loads, but slowly, so initially it appears blank for a few seconds.

For some reason it's not loading at all with you.

 

Here's a direct link to the video

https://www.facebook.com/ThaiVisaNews/videos/10156307565598012/

 

 

[loong]

50 minutes ago, katana said:

 

The OP is just an embedded Facebook video, no text. For me the video loads, but slowly, so initially it appears blank for a few seconds.

For some reason it's not loading at all with you.

 

Here's a direct link to the video

https://www.facebook.com/ThaiVisaNews/videos/10156307565598012/

 

 

Thanks for the info. I had the page open for quite some time, but nothing loaded. This time it loaded ok.

[Enoon]

8 hours ago, Ulic said:

I cant believe how high that wheel bounced.

 

 

Possibly as a result of it being inflated to double the recommended pressure?

 

 

Edited June 23, 2017 by Enoon

[williet98248]

Wondering if the pickup ever stopped.  Or maybe he just wonders what happened to his tire after he got to his destination.

[shady86]

You can't ride with 3 wheels. With that speed I think the pickup will crash unless the driver can brake on time.

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[Jonmarleesco]

Nothing in Thailand should be unexpected - especially on the road.

[johng]

I'm getting a number of topics that have an empty OP. Obviously others can see something as there are replies. Why can't I see anything??

The first post on this thread is blank for me too.
Maybe you are using the old version
Android app ? I am and often see blank where there should be a video or oustide linked picture.

[Maestro]

Removed a troll post.