Thread: A woman died from head injuries having been thrown from a tuk tuk on the first night

Goldman Sachs worker dies after being thrown from a tuk-tuk while on first day of holiday in Thailand with her fiance


Niamh Corrigan and her fiance Paul Fortuna had arrived in Phuket, Thailand that day Credit: Facebook

A woman died from head injuries having been thrown from a tuk tuk on the first night of her holiday in Thailand, an inquest was told.

Niamh Corrigan, 29, of Bromley, south London, was flung from the back of a motorised rickshaw after a night out with her Scottish fiance Paul Fortuna.
While changing seats with her partner, the vehicle turned sharply on a bumpy mountain road.

Mr Fortuna tried unsuccessfully to grab her, and then battled to resuscitate Miss Corrigan at the roadside as they waited for an ambulance to arrive.
The tuk tuk had been travelling no more than 25 mph at the time of the incident, Southwark Coroner's Court heard.

Miss Corrigan - a personal assistant at City investment bank Goldman Sachs - had arrived in Phuket for a friend's Christmas wedding earlier that day, and planned to relax and explore the country.
Following a meal and drinks with the wedding party, they boarded the rickshaw for the 12.4 mile journey back to their hotel at around 2.30am.

The couple - who were planning to marry next year - sat opposite each other but, as Miss Corrigan began to suffer from with motion sickness, she moved to sit next to her fiance.
In a witness statement read out in court, Mr Fortuna said: "We promised each other we would get a tuk-tuk because it would be fun."

But he said after a while they reached mountain roads, with steep inclines and sharp turns, and they were violently jolted from side to side in the back of the vehicle.
"Near the end of the journey she felt motion sickness and she wanted to sit next to me," he added. "When she moved to sit beside me and she stood up. At that point the tuk-tuk ascended a steep hill and lunged suddenly as it manoeuvred a sharp turn."

As the vehicle turned, Miss Corrigan was thrown out of the back, an inquest heard.
Coroner Dr Julian Morris said: "[Mr Fortuna's] instinct was to reach out and grab her, but sadly his reaction time was too slow and Niamh landed in the road."

The court heard that Mr Fortuna shouted at the driver to stop the rickshaw and ran towards his partner lying in the road.
He said: "She must have landed on her head because there was no response. Blood from under her head was visible."

The driver called an ambulance while Mr Fortuna tried to resuscitate her with the help of an American medic who was passing on the road.
Mr Fortuna said he "was screaming to bring her back from her state of unconsciousness."

He added: "The frustration and anguish was unbearable waiting for the ambulance."

Goldman Sachs worker dies after being thrown from a tuk-tuk while on first day of holiday in Thailand with her fiance - Independent.ie

you think it might be an idea to have some kind of door on the back of those things ?

very, very unlucky. That's all it takes though, a split second of unexpected movement in a tuk and your outside of the thing. had many near misses in bkk, late at night, the drivers on God knows what. At the time it seemed to add to the "Thai Experience". RIP. Niambh.

RIP,

"Life is fragile" may be a cliche, but it's true.

RIP.. that's truly awful.

Why do the shittiest things seem to happen to the nicest people *especially in 'tard land. sad.

Very sad news RIP

It's not a tuk tuk and certainly not a rickshaw.

Originally Posted by KEVIN2008

The tuk tuk had been travelling no more than 25 mph at the time of the incident

Yeah right. Did it have a tachometer installed?

Originally Posted by KEVIN2008

they were violently jolted from side to side in the back of the vehicle

It doesn't have to be high speed. A few years back, some bloke climbed on the back of a baht bus on beach road in Pattaya, the driver didn't see and accelerated.

The bloke was drunk, didn't have a proper grip, didn't have the reactions to defend himself, went straight backwards onto the tarmac.

Died on the spot.

Just an unlikely and rare way to die.

Originally Posted by NZdick1983

Why do the shittiest things seem to happen to the nicest people

How do you know she was nice?

Originally Posted by crackerjack101

Originally Posted by NZdick1983

Why do the shittiest things seem to happen to the nicest people

How do you know she was nice?

Originally Posted by crackerjack101

Originally Posted by NZdick1983

Why do the shittiest things seem to happen to the nicest people

How do you know she was nice?

Dick assumes all folks nice.
He does need to get out a little more.

Originally Posted by thaimeme

Dick assumes all folks nice.

seem he have a good heart...

arrived in Phuket for a friend's Christmas wedding

So it happened 8 months ago (last December).

Originally Posted by Neverna

arrived in Phuket for a friend's Christmas wedding

So it happened 8 months ago (last December).

That's quite acceptable, Nev.
Always newsworthy to bring to the attention of another random Farang stranger's passing.

Originally Posted by Neverna

arrived in Phuket for a friend's Christmas wedding

So it happened 8 months ago (last December).

That is when it happened, but this a report of the inquest, which has only just happened

Originally Posted by Nicethaiza

Originally Posted by thaimeme

Dick assumes all folks nice.

seem he have a good heart...

Its a good position to start from

......just the narrative ...wonderful innocent pretty european dies through swarthy developing world incompetence. Truthfully, people switch their brains off when they go on holiday to places like Thailand, and make decisions they never would at home, decisions, strangely where the risk (hazard and impact) is usually much greater... I'm sure we've all done it...... I think we've all got to ask ourselves with anything we do in places like Thailand - would I do that back home? If not, why not? Step back, and slow down.

Originally Posted by Nicethaiza

Originally Posted by thaimeme

Dick assumes all folks nice.

seem he have a good heart...

^
...or is worried about his karma for some reason...

over the past 30 years or so westerners have been protected from just about every hazard and misfortune that can befall human beings thanks to the overprotective grip of a health and safety obsessed society.

children grow up without ever having experienced the trauma of a scraped knee, a bumped head, a near miss, an unkind comment or a withheld treat and the silly little snowflakes imagine the whole world to be like that.

dangers lurk everywhere in the eye of the drones that regulate our lives and we are well protected from them thanks to the annoying signage that never stops warning us of the omnipresent horrors out there, and with the doors, lights, buzzers, barriers, bollards, helmets and hi viz jackets that separate us from anything that may harm us we can merrily go on our way with nary a worry.... and should anything happen to us , well then we'll sue you because its your fucking fault not mine.

not so in the third world, and when those who have been wrapped in cotton wool for thirty years set foot in asia, the results are not likely to be pretty.

Originally Posted by taxexile

over the past 30 years or so westerners have been protected from just about every hazard and misfortune that can befall human beings thanks to the overprotective grip of a health and safety obsessed society.

children grow up without ever having experienced the trauma of a scraped knee, a bumped head, a near miss, an unkind comment or a withheld treat and the silly little snowflakes imagine the whole world to be like that.

dangers lurk everywhere in the eye of the drones that regulate our lives and we are well protected from them thanks to the annoying signage that never stops warning us of the omnipresent horrors out there, and with the doors, lights, buzzers, barriers, bollards, helmets and hi viz jackets that separate us from anything that may harm us we can merrily go on our way with nary a worry.... and should anything happen to us , well then we'll sue you because its your fucking fault not mine.

not so in the third world, and when those who have been wrapped in cotton wool for thirty years set foot in asia, the results are not likely to be pretty.

....and who are the "developed" connected populations?

So sorry guys.. tomorrow, I shall pull the wings off flies... just for you..

damn.. no flies, it's winter here... umm I'll push my nana down the stairs in your honor.

Originally Posted by NZdick1983

So sorry guys.. tomorrow, I shall pull the wings off flies... just for you..

damn.. no flies, it's winter here... umm I'll push my nana down the stairs in your honor.

Barbarous cvnt....

Originally Posted by thaimeme

....and who are the "developed" connected populations?

You know the answer to that question, dont you ?
OK, ask yourself that very question and post an honest answer here .

and who are the "developed" connected populations?

well, its certainly not thailand is it.