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Car driver has a close shave - after taking her husband for a haircut!

 

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BANGKOK: -- A woman who had brought her husband for a haircut watched in horror as their car was dragged 100 meters down the road by a 22 wheel truck.

 

The truck ended up demolishing a shop house and damaging two other motorbikes. a woman was taken to hospital but there were no deaths in the incident, reports Thairath.

 

Meanwhile the driver admitted to having "just one drink" and was sent to have his alcohol limit tested. He has already been charged with negligence.

 

The accident happened Tuesday on Pahonyothin Road in front of the temple of Wat Mae Ka Huay Khian in  Payao province in the north of Thailand.

 

Kanyalak Intherng, 55, told Mae Ka police that she had driven her Honda car to the area to take her husband for a haircut. 

 

The container lorry came round a corner at speed and hit her car dragging it almost 100 meters down the road. She said the driver looked drunk.

 

Jiraporn Munla was taken to hospital before police arrived.

 

Truck driver Phanom Sommuang, 47, a Mukdahan native, told police that he was driving from Bangkok to the Chinese border via Chiang Khong to pick up a consignment of fruit.

 

He said he had stopped for a spot of lunch. With his "laab” he had had just one bottle of alcohol and some red bull.

 

He said the front right tire burst and what with the rain it caused him to lose control of his vehicle and collide with the car and shop house.

 

He was detained and charged with negligence. He was sent to hospital to check his alcohol level. If over the limit there will be further charges to face, said police.

 

Source: Thairath

 
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Time to rebuild the tin shacks.  

https://www.google.com/maps/@19.0461542,99.9352117,3a,75y,285.88h,78.37t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sDkFv3yOAcQ4oRMrwi77f_g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

 

Not much evidence of 'corners' at that location. Pretty straight, he must have been struggling to open his Red Bull bottle. Right front tyre bursts, slightly drunk and of course the damned rain. Recipe for disaster.

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5 hours ago, ratcatcher said:

Another troubling thing is just how easily that container detached itself from the chassis, assuming the four  twist-locks were secured  in place.

 

Why on earth would you assume that?

 

If you check next time you are out and about you will find that almost all containers are never secured here and many lorries / trailers actually have the twist locks removed.

 

My wife tells me this is because the drivers think they will be safer in the event of an accident, the container falling off instead of helping to overturn the lorry. I am not convinced this is logical, but have actually seen and often seen reported many cases of containers falling off and crushing cars/bikes/pedestrians.

 

There does not seem to be any law requiring containers to be secured, or if there is, it is universally ignored.

 

This is one reason I never linger overtaking a container lorry and try to keep away from them as much as possible when driving.

 

 

 

 

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11 hours ago, ratcatcher said:

Time to rebuild the tin shacks.  

https://www.google.com/maps/@19.0461542,99.9352117,3a,75y,285.88h,78.37t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sDkFv3yOAcQ4oRMrwi77f_g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

 

Not much evidence of 'corners' at that location. Pretty straight, he must have been struggling to open his Red Bull bottle. Right front tyre bursts, slightly drunk and of course the damned rain. Recipe for disaster.

 

Yes indeed. I looked at in the map view and unless the driver took a wild turn at speed to go down that single track road in your link there are no corners around there. But it was the woman who said he came around the corner at speed.

 

Maybe they were both pissed.

 

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