News Forum - VIDEO: Foreign driver causes horror crash in southern Thailand, 2 killed, 1 injured

[Thaiger]

A “foreign man” has been arrested after he pulled out onto oncoming traffic and collided with a motorbike Songkhla province, southern Thailand, yesterday afternoon. Two teenage girls died from their injuries and another teenage girl is seriously injured. Yesterday at 2.34pm, a “foreign man” driving a Mitsubishi Pajero pulled out of a car park on Chalatat Road in Mueang district causing a serious crash. Rescue workers rushed to the scene but all three high school students were not breathing. All three teenagers, students at Maha Vajiravudh School, were transported to Mueang Songkhla Hospital. Two of the students, 16 year old […]

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[DoUKnowWhoIAm]

Dangerous move by the driver. And 3 girls on a motorbike... Bad combo

[Ramanathan.P]

The Pajero driver never stop to look both sides for on-coming traffic. He is on the wrong side when taking the diversion. Looks like he is not used to the right hand driving....

[Cabra]

Looks like Thais aren't the only bad drivers out there. 

[DoUKnowWhoIAm]

16 minutes ago, Cabra said:

Looks like Thais aren't the only bad drivers out there. 

Definitely not. I believe many foreigners adapt pretty quickly to the Thai style, in particular motorbike riders. When in Thailand, do as the Thais do.

[cockneyboy]

RIP and a speedy recovery for the injured passenger, 100% the SUV driver fault, it looks like the driver was not used to driving on the left of the road, but 3 students on a bike, no mention of crash helmets, when will the abuse of drivers/riders in Thailand be sorted together with good quality enforcement

[Marble-eye]

Just been on the Thai news, my wife said the driver is Australian and therefore would be used to driving on the left.

[palooka]

It takes a little getting into the habit but take the extra time to enter traffic in Thailand,  You have the ones doing it right and the ones doing it wrong (ie coming down one way the wrong way etc.)  

You are on holiday, or retired, there is no hurry to be any where. Shrug and triple check and you still may get caught out, but hopefully only a near miss. TIT.

This poor bugga is going to be in a nightmare, and the girls, just starting life, cut short far too early.

[DiJoDavO]

Not to say the motorbike was wrong, but sometimes with uturns (getting out of a driveway from this angle is similar) you take a good look and still out of nowhere a motorbike pops up. 

Knowing this in Thailand, you always should take an extra extra look before you go. 

Whenever the traffic from the right is gone you can just drive on the road until from the left is gone too. He seems to want to do it all at once. It works many times.... But only takes once and you really f up badly. 

[Guest1]

22 minutes ago, DiJoDavO said:

Whenever the traffic from the right is gone you can just drive on the road until from the left is gone too

yeah, I love these buggers, blocking one direction in total because they can't even estimate, when there would be no one coming from the left. 

If you CAN't drive in one move, you simple wait where you are. Or turn left and go for the next u-turn. They are dangerous enough! 

This driver killed 2 of the 3. but even with only the maximum allowed 2 on the bike, he would have killed all 2. 

Lets hope, he has a good insurance or enough money. And that the families get all of it!

[DiJoDavO]

1 hour ago, Guest1 said:

yeah, I love these buggers, blocking one direction in total because they can't even estimate, when there would be no one coming from the left. 

If you CAN't drive in one move, you simple wait where you are. Or turn left and go for the next u-turn. They are dangerous enough! 

This driver killed 2 of the 3. but even with only the maximum allowed 2 on the bike, he would have killed all 2. 

Lets hope, he has a good insurance or enough money. And that the families get all of it!

If no traffic is coming, it's certainly possible. He didn't look well enough tho, so it's his fault. 

Btw on a road like this, there's no uturn. 

[Janneman]

7 hours ago, DoUKnowWhoIAm said:

Definitely not. I believe many foreigners adapt pretty quickly to the Thai style, in particular motorbike riders. When in Thailand, do as the Thais do.

You mean, I should drive like an idiot too?

[Skip]

I'm not sure that wearing a helmet would have saved these girls, but it could have... also as mentioned 3 on a scooter is 2 too many.

[KaptainRob]

Whether Australian or Austria (often confused by Thais), he was 100% wrong and it looked as if he actually drove over bodies or MB after the impact.  Impaired in some way?

[Noble_Design]

This is exactly the reason why driving motor vehicle is among the list of jobs prohibited to foreigners. The people who drafted that law had the foresight of something like this happening!

[DoUKnowWhoIAm]

10 hours ago, Janneman said:

You mean, I should drive like an idiot too?

I believe you'll need to prove that you're a maniac when applying for citizenship.