One dead, 26 injured in bus crash at notorious Phuket hill

Concernd | 30 June 2017 - 12:11:59

For a Tunnel 
The assumable best secure way to Patong 
How many more ancients have to happen over the hill to Patong which most likely would not happen if there would be a tunnel?
A tunnel will help most likely to assure unfit vehicles and inexperienced steep hill drivers will arrive save in Patong 
Block and don’t allow unfit truck busses and vehicles over the hill
Finance the Tunnel with ...

Pauly44 | 30 June 2017 - 10:32:32

Well of course they say it's due to brake failure, but what they fail to understand or acknowledge is it's excessive load on the brakes from going too fast that caused it, do they even know what low gear is?? Thai transport nutters at it again!

Kurt | 30 June 2017 - 08:41:50

I guess there are no sales/export of thai busses, seen the quality of the brakes? 
A simple Patong Hill already is to much, as many tourists experience.
Has Phuket trauma professionals to help the tourists emotional to overcome such a experience during their holiday?

peter rawai | 30 June 2017 - 07:58:52

its about time they did proper annual safety check on all these buses, not just talking about doing it and claiming they are done

Doneit | 29 June 2017 - 23:45:04

Well it's finally happened!!! Someone has been killed by a bus that was probably not road worthy or by an inexperienced driver. Another case of the so called authorities just don't care. 

Andy | 29 June 2017 - 22:56:32

Brake failure my rs, Bus driver brain failure as ever.

simon01 | 29 June 2017 - 21:52:03

And the carnage goes on and still year after year nothing is done to stop it and the deaths keep on mounting. However there has been a huge amount of helmet fines in patong over the last two weeks with dozens of officers haning round street corners at night jumping out on tourists. Shame they were not at Patong Hill to stop all the badly maintained buses, trucks, cars from being on the roads. Oh w...