Video: Irate netizens slam car driver for blocking ambulance - but bad behavior goes on and on

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Video: Irate netizens slam car driver for blocking ambulance - but bad behavior goes on and on

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Thai social media was frothing with fury after a white car was shown on video blocking an ambulance with its siren blaring. 

 

Despite a woman getting out of the ambulance to plead with the driver to move out of the way it is reluctant to move an inch. 

 

Eventually it moves slightly to allow the ambulance the chance of getting through. 

 

The poster of the video - Suphanut Sirirattana - included a few hashtags criticizing the driver - and furious netizens responded with their own angry comments directed against the driver. 

 

There were 7,000 comments and 25,000 shares. 

 

But a representative of Burapha University Hospital was resigned to the problem continuing. 

 

They told Daily News that ambulance crews were often faced with selfish motorists like this. 

 

It was good that they hit the news and when they did behavior improves for a while.

 

But it doesn't last long.  After the furor dies down the bad behavior continues as before. 

 

The spokesman refused to comment on this particular case saying that the rights of the patient concerned would be infringed.

 

Source: Daily News

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2018-12-05

 

[khwaibah]

Acute case of lead poison will cure this attitude.????

[Wallander4]

License plate is clearly visible - could police maybe take a pause with candy crush and go arrest this psycho ?

[z42]

If you're talking of punishing e-cig users and (apparently) fake news sharers with 10 years inside, then you really have to wonder why slapping imbeciles like this with double the punishment is such a bad move.

 

Lowest of the low, human garbage in all its pitiful glory ????

[shady86]

People's life costs only a wai and 500B fine here.

[marko kok prong]

Those netizens seem to be in a permanent irate froth.

[ZeVonderBearz]

Shaming people on social media is a good start when trying to get people to change their behaviour

[tifino]

the only one expected to cop a punishment, will be the netizen, for embarrassing the idiot online...

 

 

the Ambo man? should have also got out, and made the unrefuseable offer to have the idiot unducted as a 2nd passenger into the ambo

 - a bit of biff back alley discipline is in order here

 

the DN article said the idiot moved enough to get out of the way!

 - no it didn't... the Songteow and finally the little black Hyandai were the only yielders

[wow64]

I don’t know weather it’s stupidity or selfishness constantly displayed on the roads here.

[Psimbo]

1 hour ago, marko kok prong said:

Those netizens seem to be in a permanent irate froth.

Its almost like there's a similar online forum ????.

[Psimbo]

23 minutes ago, wow64 said:

I don’t know weather it’s stupidity or selfishness constantly displayed on the roads here.

Wot's the weather got to do with it? ????

[DGS1244]

Trouble is some ambulances abuse their privilege. I have seen ambulances using lights and siren stopping at a restaurant for food and then continuing their journey on lights and sirens with no patient on board.

[Enzian]

We all know that in the States that driver would get a stunning fine from the police, and that's why people don't do it there.

[connda]

2 hours ago, Wallander4 said:

License plate is clearly visible - could police maybe take a pause with candy crush and go arrest this psycho ?

Perhaps that are no laws on the books that address motorists impeding emergency vehicles.  
The only thing that is really important is that motorist get out of the way of police escorted motorcades of VIPs.

[from the home of CC]

2 hours ago, ZeVonderBearz said:

Shaming people on social media is a good start when trying to get people to change their behaviour

Getting slammed on the book of face is only going to go so far, there also has to be the pain of losing money as in a substantial fine.

[Vacuum]

20 minutes ago, Enzian said:

We all know that in the States that driver would get a stunning fine from the police, and that's why people don't do it there.

There should not be a need for threatening with a fine, it should be normal behaviour to let an ambulance in emergency to pass.

[1337markus]

1 hour ago, wow64 said:

I don’t know weather it’s stupidity or selfishness constantly displayed on the roads here.

Both  are the cause, saw it time after time this morning. It seems traffic coming out onto a main road cannot wait so they just block the road with their vehicle until they get in a lane. No amount of flashing lights or a horn makes any differences to these buffaloes. I said to my partner, next vehicle will be an old jeep fitted with a solid kangaroo bar across the front for bulldozing these idiots off the road.

[overherebc]

Harsh as it may seem I really want to see the headline.

Driver who blocked ambulance finds out his mother died in the ambulance.

[colinneil]

Look closely at the rear window of the car blocking the ambulance, it appears somebody is giving the ambulance staff the middle finger.

[mduras01]

So long as a short time costs more than a infraction ticket, the behavior will not change. 

[mok199]

Defiant thais...ego gone wild

[kkerry]

I live near a highway where there is a medium sized hospital. This sort of stuff happens all the time. I can stand on a pedestrian bridge and see how an ambulance going to the hospital 500 metres away can take up to five minutes as so many cars simply will not move to one side out of the way. Believe it or not, it has actually improved compared to a few years ago but none of these idiots ever seem to consider that one day it could be themselves in the ambulance.

[fruitman]

2 hours ago, DGS1244 said:

Trouble is some ambulances abuse their privilege. I have seen ambulances using lights and siren stopping at a restaurant for food and then continuing their journey on lights and sirens with no patient on board.

Maybe they were helping a diabetes person who needed sugar asap?

[Redline]

Like everything else, no or selective enforcement.  The police are nearly worthless.  Maybe they should give prizes, if you move out of the way to save someone’s life ???? 

[samsensam]

 

Thai social media was frothing with fury after a white car was shown on video blocking an ambulance with its siren blaring. 

 

why dont these frothing netizens do something in the real world to bring about change?

[moe666]

Watching the video no one was moving even when the car pulled up there really was no place to go until it appears the light changed and them everyone went

[Bangkok Barry]

4 hours ago, wow64 said:

I don’t know weather it’s stupidity or selfishness constantly displayed on the roads here.

 

One leads to the other.

[Retfed50]

3 hours ago, connda said:

Perhaps that are no laws on the books that address motorists impeding emergency vehicles.  
The only thing that is really important is that motorist get out of the way of police escorted motorcades of VIPs.

 To paraphraseThe Land Traffic Act: when encountering an emergency vehicle with lights flashing and or siren operating, the driver must pull to the far left edge of the road and stop to allow the emergency vehicle to pass. Maximum fine....a whopping 500 baht!

[DrTuner]

See, all that outrage has caused them to go irate now. Next up they'll go ballistic. I can almost hear the wallowing snowflakes cry somewhere in a parallel universe. Tear.

[akampa]

3 hours ago, 1337markus said:

next vehicle will be an old jeep fitted with a solid kangaroo bar across the front for bulldozing these idiots off the road.

In my dreams also.