Road accidents Archives - Matt Owens Rees

02.10.2025

Do Monks Tell The Truth?

What do readers think of today’s episode of Behind the Bamboo Curtain. We’d all like to know your views in the comment box below. Today, Sunantaa told me that Kitaloo, her one year old puppy, had been killed in a road accident. He had escaped from their fenced garden. Unusually for a Thai, she was…

Today’s Latest Thai news

Drunk BMW driver drives against traffic and causes 10 car pile-up Suspect dismisses collision as a minor incident despite the injuries of the pickup driver A drunk Thai BMW driver drove against the traffic flow, causing a pile-up involving 10 vehicles on Ratchaphruek Road in the Nonthaburi province near Bangkok. Officers from Ratchaphruek Police Station arrived to find five…

Driving in Thailand – 1

How dangerous is driving in Thailand? Over the next couple of days I’m going to post some short pieces of examples of bad driving in the country with the highest civilian death rate in the world. Many bloggers comment about it. Few explain WHY it occurs. it’s largely cultural! The largest death toll is with…