As a former high school teacher in Thailand who every day witnessed students being driven to school along main roads in ridiculously over-crowded song teaows, it was with great sadness I read today of an accident yesterday in rural Thailand.
Sadnessed by the inevitability of such an accident as well as the tragic waste of young lives.
5 students killed and 15 seriously injured when a 10 wheeled truck ran up the arse of an obviously overloaded song teaow as it was u-turning to drop the students at the school on the other side of the road.
The driver of the truck fled the scene. Of course.
If this accident occured in Australia, or likely any western nation, it would be front page headlines sparking community outrage.
I doubt it will be mentioned again here.
A fucking disgrace.
As Thaksin keeps telling us, Thailand is NOT a third world country.
So when will they stop killing their children and take some responsibility for what happens on their roads?
Without a doubt this is, to me, the most disappointing aspect of this country...