Dead Man's Curve

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Re: Dead Man's Curve

Post by Giggle » December 3, 2019, 11:38 am

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Re: Dead Man's Curve

Post by RLTrader » December 3, 2019, 11:56 am

samuel wrote:
December 3, 2019, 11:25 am
i have absolutely no idea how to miss that curve.
avoid drugs and alcohol and drive slowly (normal) then you'll miss that wall for sure.
use your brain if you have one.
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Thanks for the picture. With that I can now picture how at night, the wall just might look like the road.

Painting it might work, but why not remove it?

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Re: Dead Man's Curve

Post by Drunk Monkey » December 3, 2019, 12:42 pm

This morning guys working and more new painted lines and yellow boards with black arrows on the side going into town from the airport .

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Re: Dead Man's Curve

Post by pal52 » December 3, 2019, 1:10 pm

RLTrader wrote:
December 3, 2019, 11:56 am
samuel wrote:
December 3, 2019, 11:25 am
i have absolutely no idea how to miss that curve.
avoid drugs and alcohol and drive slowly (normal) then you'll miss that wall for sure.
use your brain if you have one.
wall.jpg
Thanks for the picture. With that I can now picture how at night, the wall just might look like the road.

Painting it might work, but why not remove it?
To hit that wall you would have to be driving on the wrong side of the road.
To be on the wrong side of the road on that slight curve you would also have to be driving at a hell of a speed.
Street lights would solve the problem.

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Re: Dead Man's Curve

Post by samuel » December 3, 2019, 1:25 pm

pal52 wrote:
December 3, 2019, 1:10 pm
To hit that wall you would have to be driving on the wrong side of the road.
To be on the wrong side of the road on that slight curve you would also have to be driving at a hell of a speed.
exactly !

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Re: Dead Man's Curve

Post by parrot » December 3, 2019, 1:56 pm

Calling Father Damien Karras.
Given the large spirit house there along with the long vacant piece of property just behind that wall, I'd be willing to bet the locals know what's behind all those accidents.

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Re: Dead Man's Curve

Post by stattointhailand » December 3, 2019, 2:08 pm

parrot wrote:
December 3, 2019, 1:56 pm
Calling Father Damien Karras.
Given the large spirit house there along with the long vacant piece of property just behind that wall, I'd be willing to bet the locals know what's behind all those accidents.
So Do I .......... crazed imaginations :roll:

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Re: Dead Man's Curve

Post by RLTrader » December 3, 2019, 3:46 pm

Hmm, maybe a fluorescent yellow line is needed, instead of the washed out white line, along with some street lights. :D
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Re: Dead Man's Curve

Post by GT93 » December 4, 2019, 3:47 pm

I hear the deceased, the 20 year old female, was the younger sister of one of my step-daughter's friends. She was apparently a good kid.
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Re: Dead Man's Curve

Post by tamada » December 4, 2019, 4:28 pm

GT93 wrote:
December 4, 2019, 3:47 pm
I hear the deceased, the 20 year old female, was the younger sister of one of my step-daughter's friends. She was apparently a good kid.
Goes to show that even good girls can get it all horribly wrong while racing along on their crotch rocket at 2:48 AM.

Speculation on overtaking on an obviously bad camber, talking on cellphone, DUI/DWI and the ubiquitous pii-lohk withheld out of respect for the deceased.

RIP.

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Re: Dead Man's Curve

Post by tamada » December 4, 2019, 4:42 pm

pal52 wrote:
December 3, 2019, 1:10 pm
RLTrader wrote:
December 3, 2019, 11:56 am
samuel wrote:
December 3, 2019, 11:25 am
i have absolutely no idea how to miss that curve.
avoid drugs and alcohol and drive slowly (normal) then you'll miss that wall for sure.
use your brain if you have one.
wall.jpg
Thanks for the picture. With that I can now picture how at night, the wall just might look like the road.

Painting it might work, but why not remove it?
To hit that wall you would have to be driving on the wrong side of the road.
To be on the wrong side of the road on that slight curve you would also have to be driving at a hell of a speed.
Street lights would solve the problem.
Lack of due care an attention and the possibility of committing to overtaking on the nominally blind side of the left-hander whereupon on finding something coming the other way, they steer right, across the storm drain covering, up the cement slope and into the wall?

Street view indicates street lamps with one right on the apex of the curve and the next right opposite the 'killer wall', maybe about 40 m apart? Of course there's no saying if they are working at night.

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Re: Dead Man's Curve

Post by tamada » December 4, 2019, 4:46 pm

maaka wrote:
December 3, 2019, 6:22 am
you would think with those numbers they would tear the wall down..not sure what purpose that part of the wall has. is it a protection barrier for some house on the otherside, or just a wall
Nothing behind it but some raised earth, bushes and shrubs. Must belong to the gated big house on the right that maybe owns the large spirit house, no?
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Re: Dead Man's Curve

Post by Khun Paul » December 4, 2019, 4:48 pm

This like all roads in Thailand needs the driver to concentrate 100% , I too have driven up that road at some considerable speed, but read the orad correctly and noticed that to ignore the adversity of the camber plus the rise and the inability to see much in front of you clearly means that caution should always be used going both ways .
RIP to the young lady but as so often here lack of good driver training eventually shows .

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Re: Dead Man's Curve

Post by noosard » December 4, 2019, 6:58 pm

During school rush hours it is a crazy soi from start to finish
but a blind rider could make that turn or stop before the wall at the speed limit (60kmh ?)

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Re: Dead Man's Curve

Post by Drunk Monkey » December 4, 2019, 7:01 pm

noosard wrote:
December 4, 2019, 6:58 pm
During school rush hours it is a crazy soi from start to finish
but a blind rider could make that turn or stop before the wall at the speed limit (60kmh ?)
agree been down that road so many times n without the interjection of alcohol drugs , stray dogs etc just cant see why so many accidents .. its not a dangerous curve .
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Re: Dead Man's Curve

Post by tamada » December 5, 2019, 12:39 am

Drunk Monkey wrote:
December 4, 2019, 7:01 pm
noosard wrote:
December 4, 2019, 6:58 pm
During school rush hours it is a crazy soi from start to finish
but a blind rider could make that turn or stop before the wall at the speed limit (60kmh ?)
agree been down that road so many times n without the interjection of alcohol drugs , stray dogs etc just cant see why so many accidents .. its not a dangerous curve .
Must be the pii-lohk then.

I think KP has it with the road camber though. There's got to be something that catches the unwary on two wheels. A bit like the famous corner of Spa-Francorchamps, the Raidillon, often called Eau Rouge. Drivers can navigate it safely hundreds of times and then, on the next pass...

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Re: Dead Man's Curve

Post by noosard » December 5, 2019, 8:21 am

tamada wrote:
December 5, 2019, 12:39 am
Drunk Monkey wrote:
December 4, 2019, 7:01 pm
noosard wrote:
December 4, 2019, 6:58 pm
During school rush hours it is a crazy soi from start to finish
but a blind rider could make that turn or stop before the wall at the speed limit (60kmh ?)
agree been down that road so many times n without the interjection of alcohol drugs , stray dogs etc just cant see why so many accidents .. its not a dangerous curve .
Must be the pii-lohk then.

I think KP has it with the road camber though. There's got to be something that catches the unwary on two wheels. A bit like the famous corner of Spa-Francorchamps, the Raidillon, often called Eau Rouge. Drivers can navigate it safely hundreds of times and then, on the next pass...
Got be careful of jumping walls that are not near the road

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