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MarcTwoSix

MarcTwoSix

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kaptainrob said:
No stats but Vietnam has more motorbikes than cars and road fatalities had been dropping over the past decade quite substantially. 2021/2 saw around 6,000 deaths pa. An uptick in 2022/3 may correlate with a huge increase in car ownership.

Vietnam has a population of almost 100million compared with Thailand's 70million yet road deaths are more than double here. My observations and discussion with Vn drivers would indicate a higher awareness of mb driving ability, including 99.9% helmet use, and substantially slower operating speeds.

Thai alcohol laws are draconian compared with Vietnam and I wonder how much this contributes to road accidents thru binge drinking.
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Yes of course alcohol would play a big part

I've driven around Hanoi and been on trips in/around Saigon

I didn't really notice many police

That's a major issue in Thailand
You basically have no road policing at all, with the exception of speed cameras
 
kaptainrob

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Chiang Mai Superhighway last night, airbags appeared to have deployed, likely at the same instant 2 heads impacted with windscreen upon instant stop from high speed! >

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Quarky

Quarky

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MarcTwoSix said:
The way the truck is on top of the barrier

Indicates it may have been airborne??
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Indeed... for the passenger... if the windscreen didn't kill you, the lump of concrete between your legs would... what a horrible death. Hopefully instant.
 
kaptainrob

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More carnage on CM roads >

From Facebook: "Five people were injured, three seriously, after a Bangkok-registered car full of tourists came off Mae Chaem - Pang Ung Road in Mae Suek, Mae Chaem, last night, Jan. 11.
According to the report, the accident was caused by the driver not being skilled at driving. Putting aside that describes half the drivers in Thailand, it's nice to see blame being attributed to the driver instead of the usual road conditions, brake failure or surprise light pole."


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This one a few days ago is particularly disturbing >

From Facebook: "On January 8, 2024, between approximately 6:30 PM and 7:00 PM, a father and his daughter were involved in a hit-and-run accident on the San Pa Tong-Hang Dong bypass road (in front of Thepsirin School) at Nam Bo Luang. Their vehicle was sideswiped and forced over a barrier, falling into a canal about 4 meters deep. They were seriously injured."

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Helmets could have saved them from serious injury >

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kaptainrob

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Another shocker last night >

From Facebook:-
Two people have died, including an ambulance driver and another person in the ambulance, after an ambulance ran into the back of a truck near the Mae Ho Phra Witthayakhom School on Chiang Mai - Phrao Road (1001), in Mae No Phra, Mae Taeng at around 6:50 p.m. last night, Jan. 16.
Officials needed cutting tools to remove the bodies. Phrao Police are investigating.

I can only surmise the truck was stopped or moving very slowly with it's illegal (my opinion) load which may have also obscured tail lights if they worked at all. It's the kind of thing I've seen many times in daylight and the very reason I avoid in-country night travel. The Ambo's (2) were possibly responding to a callout or simply hurrying home, either way, they were impaled by the steel and died instantly.





 
kaptainrob

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MarcTwoSix said:
My wife often wakes up at 3am to drive back to BKK from the village and I am always telling her not to....
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The very last time I drove at night, between Yasothon and Roi Et, we were doing 80 on a single lane unlit road when I came upon an unlit farmers pickup carrying a spirit house which over hung by approx 1m each side. He was taking up 70% of both lanes and I had to brake real hard to avoid rear ending him.

It's often motorbikes which run up the back of parked or slow trucks at night, even on Hang Dong road which is well lit. But rural roads are worse for the long distance car traveller.
 
MarcTwoSix

MarcTwoSix

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kaptainrob said:
The very last time I drove at night, between Yasothon and Roi Et, we were doing 80 on a single lane unlit road when I came upon an unlit farmers pickup carrying a spirit house which over hung by approx 1m each side. He was taking up 70% of both lanes and I had to brake real hard to avoid rear ending him.

It's often motorbikes which run up the back of parked or slow trucks at night, even on Hang Dong road which is well lit. But rural roads are worse for the long distance car traveller.
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I'm an early riser so I've often been on the road 4:30-5am
Well not often but a few times

And even then, and on main roads, I have to keep my wits about me
 
kaptainrob

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And then there's the almost empty passenger vans (in Pattaya this time) seemingly with Tesla-self-driving installed >



"The driver, Mr. Chaiyut Awampad, 53, stood at the scene with minor injuries. He informed authorities that he had just finished transporting Russian tourists to a hotel and that the van just “swerved unexpectedly” entirely on its own while exiting the alley, causing it to overturn. "
 
Faraday

Faraday

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kaptainrob said:
And then there's the almost empty passenger vans (in Pattaya this time) seemingly with Tesla-self-driving installed >



"The driver, Mr. Chaiyut Awampad, 53, stood at the scene with minor injuries. He informed authorities that he had just finished transporting Russian tourists to a hotel and that the van just “swerved unexpectedly” entirely on its own while exiting the alley, causing it to overturn. "
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Most likely a ghost or bad spirits- sometimes Hong Thong does taste a bit off.

"Swerved unexpectedly"
🤣🤣
 
MarcTwoSix

MarcTwoSix

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We will be on holiday in Thailand with our best friend couple here
TG and Canadian guy

Both not hugely experienced on the MB

So it is different having to factor that it in to our plans at times

Already had to rent a car in CM for 2 days
Probably need to for a day out in Ao Nang

Want to be aware not to push them over thier comfort level on the MB
 
kaptainrob

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A particularly nasty motorcycle fatality, text from CMNewsInEnglish Facebook pages >

A 23-year-old police lieutenant died following an accident on Mae Jo Road outside the San Sai Land Office at 1 a.m., Feb. 17.
It wasn't your usual traffic accident, though - first, Police Lieutenant Sasiwimon crashed on his way home from the city and was injured but still alive. An eyewitness, Mr. Amphon, a doctor from Mae Faek Mai, San Sai, went to give assistance, but before he could get there, the Police Lieutenant was then run over by a speeding pickup truck. And to top it off, the pickup truck fled the scene, making it a hit-and-run. The policeman died from his injuries later in hospital.
Mae Jo Police are investigating and are using CCTV to locate the pickup truck.



Original story from Chiang Mai News online has a few inconsistencies yet tells more of the torrid story > HERE <
 
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