Thread: British Publisher Killed in Chonburi Car Accident

Doesn't look like a seatbelt was in use.

74.


Too old to drive.

Fortunately he didn't take anyone else out.

Originally Posted by cyrille

Is it a junction and he was trying to turn left?

If so that makes the speed he must have been doing even more ridiculous.

Yeah hard to tell without a larger field of view, but agree. If that was a junction he must have been flying. Interesting that his car didn't flatten that wall and fly right on through. Its your typical cheap cinder block wall with virtually no rebar but it does appear part of the car hit that 5" round support. Wall held up well, car not so much.

Anyway, life as it is.

The newspaper article ( thai rath) suggests that he fell unconscious whilst driving, resulting in the crash the.

he may have had a heart attack or a stroke and may well have been dead before the impact.

I think most of we more intelligent and perspicacious folk had assumed a medical event of some sort caused the incident.

Quite amusing though that some here professing automotive knowledge seemed to think the damage sustained in the collision was as a consequence of a high speed impact.

Modern vehicles are designed to crumple on impact and a collision with some unmoveable object at a speed between 20-30 mph will almost certainly result in destruction of the front end with serious deformation of the bonnet as the force is absorbed and routed away from the passenger compartment. The near side end of the windscreen is starred, not the driver’s side, and so it may well be the case the man slumped over sideways in that direction as he lost consciousness and his head hit the screen on impact.

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I think most of we more intelligent and perspicacious folk had assumed a medical event of some sort caused the incident.

Quite amusing though that some here professing automotive knowledge seemed to think the damage sustained in the collision was as a consequence of a high speed impact.

indeed.

the americans amongst us, unable to separate reality from their delta force, chuck norris, rambo, itchy and scratchy fantasies will always allow their fevered imaginations to run riot and picture armageddon, blood soaked carnage with sirens, flashing blue lights guns drawn, when in fact it was just an elderly retired gentleman suffering a heart attack or similar before his little toyota, with little fuss, rolled at a not excessive speed into the nearest wall as his life departed him.

Originally Posted by britanicus123

Happily my little world does not include tourist places or foreigner hang outs like crappy bars with tarts in them, where this Chilli rag is probably to be found. What's so great about it? Never saw it in a hotel, never in any Thai places or in a shop. I tend to avoid anything to do with foreigners here anyway, mostly a group cheats, loud mouths and know it alls.

'Open your eyes beyond your little world ' --says the forum bully!

..and yet here you are. On a Thai based board for foreigners.

You 2 armchair asshats (Tax and SA) are quite amusing. But we will defer to all your extensive knowledge. I mean for Christ sake. SA is washed up office monger and Tax apparently a dental surgeon.

Carry on you 2.

Tax seems to know his motors.

sa could probably fix a revolving stage by now.

Originally Posted by Stumpy

You 2 armchair asshats (Tax and SA) are quite amusing. But we will defer to all your extensive knowledge. I mean for Christ sake. SA is washed up office monger and Tax apparently a dental surgeon.

Carry on you 2.

I rather think the dull witted septic has just conceded he was wrong, Tax.