Thread: Foreigner Pensioner Run Over by Pickup Truck in Sattahip, ChonBuri

Those u turns on major roads are ridiculously scary and contribute massively to Thailands road deaths toll record.
Witnessed multiple fatalities a couple of nights ago on the northern artery.

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

Why did the pick up have the number plate holders on the motor if the number plates hadn't been issued. The putting of the number plate holders is done at the same time as the number plates are fitted. Why just fit the holders?

all my new rides have come with the holder fitted, prior to the correct plates months later.

Originally Posted by mykthemin

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

Why did the pick up have the number plate holders on the motor if the number plates hadn't been issued. The putting of the number plate holders is done at the same time as the number plates are fitted. Why just fit the holders?

all my new rides have come with the holder fitted, prior to the correct plates months later.

Exactly.

Originally Posted by Chittychangchang

Those u turns on major roads are ridiculously scary and contribute massively to Thailands road deaths toll record.
Witnessed multiple fatalities a couple of nights ago on the northern artery.

And all because the Thai are congenitally incapable of negotiating roundabouts.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

Ummmm, I think not.

Now, if you had said preferable to an existence spent in a nondescript, shabby, faux executive housing estate in a suburban dystopia hanging like a malignant tumour to a dying Northern British town populated by bags for food no better than the walking dead, in a society of dreary inevitability rotting away in a chilled, drizzled greyness fleetingly illuminated in all its horror by a glimmering sun without heat, without hope, without purpose, save to eat, defecate and occasionally rut some bloated bag of suppurating cellulite, until an inevitable end in an over-crowded cancer ward or faeces-ridden care home echoing the whimpers of the bumbling, stumbling, dribbling Bumbumboy clones, then I think I may have agreed with you.

Britain's a lovely place.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

And all because the Thai are congenitally incapable of negotiating roundabouts.

I believe the Dolphin Roundabout is going to be taken out and lights or some other alternative put in instead. The one on Jomtien 2nd road was replaced with lights a few months back, for the reason you mention above and the continuous stream of ambulances required at that location. They simply cannot give-way...

Indeed, it is a telling example of their mental deficiency in that they are pathologically incapable of exercising their own judgement, initiative and common sense not least because they exist in a society in which thinking for oneself is actively discouraged.

No wonder it has no culture of its own and has contributed nothing to the world's development.

The Dolphin roundabout has in fact been partially blocked for years in that traffic from the Naklua direction could only access it in order to turn left up Pattaya Nua for 200 meters whereupon it had to negotiate a U-turn and approach the roundabout from that direction. Even limited to three access points it was gridlocked at peak times because the Thai are simply too stupid to adhere to the Highway Code. Accidents of course proliferated because the usual suspects, large tour buses, Mercedes and large trucks, ignored any rule and simply barged their way through.

When i need to explain to visitors Thai society and its psyche I use the Dolphin roundabout as a simple metaphor illuminating why everything here is so fucked up. But for me the sugar on top is the antics of the traffic cops stopping farang motorcyclists at the end of Second Road for imaginary infringements whilst all the moving traffic violations entering the roundabout threatening life and limb are committed in front of them with impunity.

The problem is, the traffic jams that will be created by the proposed replacement traffic lights will paralyse that end of the city for miles in every direction.

They simply are the world's worst at urban planning.

The roundabout on Jomtien 2nd Road didn't work too well, or the lights before that, or the approach at your own risk before that, but the current light system seems to be keeping the peace; might have something to do with the police box, still unsure if it's manned or a prop.