News Forum - American injured in Pattaya car crash

[Thaiger]

An American man was injured in a Pattaya car crash this week. The man, 68 year old David Andrew Rogers, rear-ended an 18-wheeler rig with his pickup truck, Pattaya Mail reported. The collision caused Rogers’s Nissan Navara to flip. The incident happened on March 7 on Sukhumvit Road in front of Srisuvit School, located north …

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[gazmo16]

I know it will never happen but if they want to cut road deaths at a single stroke they need ban people riding in the cargo area of pick ups. In any accident these people are have nothing to shield them from any impact.

If they want to go further then it's the usual route of, seatbelts, driver education, enforcing drink/drug laws and actual legal driving laws around passing a driving test, to name just a few things that would make the roads much safer while reducing road deaths for vehicle users. 

[Grumpish]

42 minutes ago, gazmo16 said:

I know it will never happen but if they want to cut road deaths at a single stroke they need ban people riding in the cargo area of pick ups. In any accident these people are have nothing to shield them from any impact.

If they want to go further then it's the usual route of, seatbelts, driver education, enforcing drink/drug laws and actual legal driving laws around passing a driving test, to name just a few things that would make the roads much safer while reducing road deaths for vehicle users. 

They tried that - it wasn't popular and got dropped very quickly. Banning people from riding in the cargo area of pickups would help, but it wouldn't make that much of a dent in the overall numbers.

The only things that would help would be the things that you suggest,  but unfortunately will never happen in todays Thailand - driver education,  enforcement of licences and vehicle insurance, and actual enforcement (as opposed to "negotiable off the book fines") of the existing traffic laws.