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Swiss Man Killed When Pickup Collides head-On With Phuket Water Tanker
By Sert Tongdee Monday, May 18, 2015
PHUKET: A Swiss man was killed early today when his pickup collided head-on with a water tanker coming over the Kata-Karon Hill on Phuket.
The 39-year-old man was heading from Patong towards Chalong Circle, says an investigator from Karon Police Station.
It is believed the man died while being taken in an ambulance to Vachira Phuket Hospital in Phuket City after the 1.40am smash.
Phuketwan has been supplied with the man's name but will not publish it until relatives have been notified.
It's the third fatality or serious injury involving an expat or a tourist within days following the death of Finn Jonas Notti as he walked across Patak Road and the serious injury to Australian expat teacher Louise Warren on Thursday.
A substantial proportion of expats and tourists are killed or injured in crashes on Phuket's roads, especially those involving motorcycles.
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Ring entertainment districts like Patong with police check points. Implement proper vehicle inspections. Enforce traffic laws, without exception. Fit all commercial vehicles with monitoring devices. Build new prisons to accommodate offenders. How hard can it be?
Posted by
gee
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May 18, 2015 13:21
But which vehicle was on a wrong lane, the water tank or the car of the deceased?
Posted by
Sue
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May 18, 2015 13:40
Two unrelated deaths in the same road in two days but that is a tricky road for sure, bad number even by Phuket's general lack of safety standards. There has been extensive red markings and cross lines in some sections placed along certain portions recently and it looks like they are replacing the barrier where the fatal bus crash went through barrier recently. I was on my motorbike when I was clipped by a car which lost control on the "S" bend and then went into a tree in the middle of the day. I was lucky to not come off but it bent all my back foot pedal.
Posted by
Fiesty Farang
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May 18, 2015 14:01
At first report it is hard to say who was wrong in driving. We wait until we hear about alcohol and drugs tests. But what is a water tanker driving there at 01:40 AM ? In overtime--> fatigue?
Posted by
Kurt
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May 18, 2015 14:54
Maybe it's like looking into a mirror but in the photos is it the left front of the pickup truck and the right front of the water truck? If so it would seam someone turned into the other vise head on
Posted by
mike
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May 18, 2015 19:28
Sue and Kurt are indeed right in that there can be reasons other than drink or drugs which can claim lives. However the moment drinks or drugs are identified we automatically know whom to blame. Despite all the publicity recently, last night I nearly hit a bicyclist who had pathetic red and blue small flashing lights on the rear of his bike that got lost in all the other lights on the road. I was slowing down to turn left and saw him in time in my lights. However later I passed 4 workers walking down the side of the road all with florescent tape on their trousers and I could see them clearly from a distance. That's a lesson bikers could learn from. Making oneself clearly visible at night would seem an obvious precaution.
Posted by
Chill
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May 18, 2015 19:49
To answer Gee's question, 66% of Thailand's prison population are drug offender's Most of those are small time user's or seller's. If you are not a drug user or seller you certainly will be before you get out. Yet if building more prisons to accomodate Thailand's bad drivers is the answer, there would be more people in prison that outside prison. I am sorry I could not resist such a answer to Gee's comment.
Posted by
capealava
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May 18, 2015 21:20
"Ring entertainment districts like Patong with police check points. Implement proper vehicle inspections. Enforce traffic laws, without exception."
To whom are you talking to, gee? Could you boldly go up to the governor and present him with your new ideas or are you simply another keyboard warrior?
Good God: you and the whole bunch of ThaiVisa rejects make my stomach churl... How dare declare rules in a country in which you have no clue about.
Tell me about it when that you've even taken the time to even to learn spoken Thai, let alone written Thai. Then I'll start to respect your knee-jerk reactions.
No offense intended. But jeez...
You intend good but display cultural ignorance.
Sam
Posted by
Sam Wilko
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May 18, 2015 21:28
no air bag deployed or seat belt used.
the damage to the truck does not look that serious.
Posted by
mike
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May 18, 2015 21:49
Sam Wilko
after being so long time in Thailand, you may know that RTP is not in the province Governor hierarchy, and G. has no influence on budget apportion of local RTP units as well.
To talk about RTP issues one need to to RTP, or to "local member of parliament" when such will be reincarnated.
To mentor someone with bold advises on how to approach authorities in Thailand, it would be wise to learn about decentralization reform 1999-2009 beforehand, to have at least competence nit noi on the subject.
Posted by
Sue
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May 18, 2015 22:09
@ Sam- Gee and his cohorts fled Phuket about 5 years ago but continue to comment their jaded views based on way back when- sat in their armchairs they are completely out of touch.
@ Kurt the water trucks are active 24hrs a day and blast through Kamala throughout the night. Big money looking at the nice new trucks in use this year. Not sure if it happens elsewhere on the island (as the Ed doesn't like assumptions) but the mains water here in Kamala is regularly turned off to the profit of some local individuals taking advantage of the 'situation'.
Posted by
Mister Ree
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May 18, 2015 22:33
Editor Comment:
Phuketwan recognises Phuket has a water supply problem, even if the authorities don't, and has suggested addressing both that issue and the unwanted over-property boom by obliging all new developments to provide their own water trhough ponds, lagoons and tanks - not wells.
"A substantial proportion of expats and tourists are killed or injured in crashes on Phuket's roads, especially those involving motorcycles."
We know this only too well - but in this age of greed, entitlement and me-first, this message either falls on deaf ears - or isn't relayed at all - to millions of tourists that visit Thailand.
It boggles the mind..
On another note, if you take away the Mag wheels, the running boards, the roll bar, interior leather and a few other goodies - it's identical to my Plain Jane Toyota 4 door Hilux.
Waaaaay too many of these fatalities happen between 1 and 5 am, not to infer he was hammered or anything.
But then I'm in bed by 10 pm - just when the party starts kicking into high gear..
Posted by
farang888
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May 19, 2015 03:49
Laughable isn't laissez faire yet spout off like you're entitled. Oh the irony. Hot and sunny here in Phuket Town. Howz it up there in issan?
Posted by
gee
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May 19, 2015 10:18
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Ring entertainment districts like Patong with police check points. Implement proper vehicle inspections. Enforce traffic laws, without exception. Fit all commercial vehicles with monitoring devices. Build new prisons to accommodate offenders. How hard can it be?
Posted by gee on May 18, 2015 13:21