Traffic Police, Are They Fair?
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
You often hear this ‘If it comes down to a legal hassle between you and a Thai who do you think is going to win?’, as if everything here is thoroughly rigged against the farang. I couldn’t disagree more. Maybe it is true in some areas, but as I’ve seen and heard in traffic accidents the police are effective and fair. This opinion applies to my experiences in Pattaya, and also similar discussions with friends living up country.
I was recently involved in an accident. Here is what happened. I was driving a pickup truck with my wife and some workers in the rear on a curvy country road on the way back to Pattaya when a motorcycle going about 120 km per hour came around a rather sharp corner and laid the bike down. The rider came off the motorbike (prior to hit impacting the auto) and the bike became like a weapon speeding onward towards my truck, which hit like a thump! (more…)