News Forum - Tragic twilight collision: Man defies wife’s warning, loses life in motorcycle accident

[Thaiger]

A fatal accident occurred when a man defied his wife’s warning and drove his motorcycle during twilight hours, resulting in a collision with a pickup truck. The incident took place on the Nato Hming-Kok Yang road in Trang Province, Thailand. The crash left the motorcycle rider, a 44 year old rubberwood processing factory security officer … …

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[Ramanathan.P]

From the picture it looks like the truck is in the wrong side of the road. Further a slow moving truck will not drag a vehicle which is stuck underneath it for 30 meters. It is very difficult to believe the truck driver's statement as the deceased is not there to defend himself. 

[bb54]

Combined reaction time and braking distance at 65kmph/40mph is around 36 meters.

[Ramanathan.P]

26 minutes ago, bb54 said:

Combined reaction time and braking distance at 65kmph/40mph is around 36 meters.

Agreed if free flow breaking then it could be possible. In this situation there is a heavy object which is being dragged along. Any alert driver would have immediately apply the brakes. at the most it would be 10 meters the most drag or 15 meters the max. Cannot be 30 meters unless the driver press the accelerator instead of the brakes

[Skip]

Hopefully the police are competent enough to determine the point of contact of the two vehicles which according to the story was on the truck driver's side of the road.  Thus the motorcycle driver made an error that killed him.