rooster59 18,799 Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 Unreliable GPS and faulty brakes blamed after scores injured in bus crash in Nan Fifteen people were injured, one seriously, when a tour bus carrying forty cyclists crashed in Nan province in northern Thailand on Saturday morning. According to Thai media, the bus had travelled from Samut Prakan to complete a cycling trip in Nan’s Pua district. However, the GPS system incorrectly directed the bus to Ban Luang district. Realising the error, the driver turned the bus around in a bid to reach Pua district. As the bus was travelling down a steep slope on the way to the correct destination, the driver said the bus suddenly developed brake failure. The only way to stop the bus plummeting down the mountainside was to swerve right, the driver said, which forced the bus to skid off the road and into an irrigation ditch. Most of the injured received treatment for minor injuries at the scene. The driver was taken to Nan hospital, where his condition was described as serious. The GPS system revealed the bus had been travelling at 38 km/h at the time of the accident. Source: Chiang Mai News -- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2020-01-19 Follow Thaivisa on LINE for breaking Thailand news and visa info Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post Don Mega 9,626 Posted January 19, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 19, 2020 How was the GPS unreliable ? Sound more like user error to me. 12 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post unamazedloso 5,080 Posted January 19, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 19, 2020 Police test the brakes yet? These excuses are not good enough. Start charging these idiot drivers with negligence or murder in cases that call for it and then and only then will things start to get better. 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites
RotBenz8888 18,527 Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 28 minutes ago, rooster59 said: Unreliable GPS and faulty brakes Never was a human error in these cases 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post Vacuum 14,704 Posted January 19, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 19, 2020 27 minutes ago, rooster59 said: The GPS system revealed the bus had been travelling at 38 km/h at the time of the accident. Yes but the GPS was faulty (according to the article) so the speed could have been much higher. 4 3 Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post MJKT2014 1,260 Posted January 19, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 19, 2020 27 minutes ago, Don Mega said: How was the GPS unreliable ? Made by foreigners innit? I wonder how reliable the amulets on the front dash were, not mentioned by the Thai media who were all over this story. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post Assurancetourix 17,725 Posted January 19, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 19, 2020 21 minutes ago, rooster59 said: the driver said the bus suddenly developed brake failure. Let's say brain failure .. When you are a smart bus (or truck) driver, you don't need the brake pedal on a descent, even if it is long ... Even if you have an automatic gearbox because it can still be used manually. The driver still needs to know how the mechanics he has under his ass work. and then how did we do when the GPS did not exist? We were staying at home? This is surely what this imbecile driver should have done. I wrote it in another article on this forum; in the 1970s and 1980s, Italian trucks known as millipedes all ran over 100 tonnes with engines rarely exceeding 250 horsepower; they climbed the mountain passes first small and descended in the same way; gearboxes with mechanical or electrical relays something that seems unknown to me in Thailand like the Telma electromagnetic retarder always first small and retarder on the exhaust; you never saw their brake lights come on ... because they weren't using their brakes. Driving a coach at the beginning of the 70' I had already that technology on my coach ; a Chausson 110 horse power .. Not this one but the same with which I made the Rennes - Fougeres line in France from this site : https://www.lineoz.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=17532&start=350 https://www.army-technology.com/contractors/armoured/ateco-equipment/pressreleases/telma-retarders/ 6 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post worgeordie 44,930 Posted January 19, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 19, 2020 46 minutes ago, rooster59 said: said the bus suddenly developed brake failure. A.K.A. brake fade ,going down hill, high gear,foot on brake, instead of low gear ,no need to put foot on brake,use your engine to slow down, BUT he was in a hurry. regards Worgeordie 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites
sammieuk1 20,753 Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 How to loose your way in a one road to anywhere country and park your bus in the default position Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post Oztruckie 406 Posted January 19, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 19, 2020 Just another braindead idiot who shouldn't be behind the steering wheel of a bus,brake failure my ass,brain failure more like it,obviously doesn't know what gearboxes are for or how to use them properly,and if TAT are wondering why there's less tourists coming here,well with all these tourist buses suffering brake failure,they make want to start looking at this problem along with all the other scams. 5 Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post RichardColeman 28,042 Posted January 19, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 19, 2020 I see the coach has Lamborghini written on the side - wonder if the driver was driving it like one ? 3 Link to post Share on other sites
Matzzon 13,666 Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 Of course! Staying awake and looking at the road is totally overrated. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post bino 1,369 Posted January 19, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 19, 2020 (edited) I am amazed by how quickly Thai people have become dependent upon GPS to the same extent that they are dependent upon calculators. Edited January 19, 2020 by bino 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Chazar 8,650 Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 Pah you'd really think with all their Thai boffins constantly inventing things before the rest of the world in a shed in nahkonnowhere they could come up with an anti brake failsafe invention............maybe a lobotomy is easier? Link to post Share on other sites
edwinchester 8,552 Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 Why use the word 'score' in a headline when you have zero idea of what it actually means? 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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