Aggressive Expat Drivers

[centermid7]

^ he is just making up a goof-ball generalization in order to sound authoritative. After all he is "100% sure"! 555

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[europtimiste]

Cyclists are really annoying, but there must be a difference between a fast driver with a good driving skill and an aggressive one. Of course anybody can become aggressive if somebody in front of him is driving at a snail speed.

[GroveHillWanderer]

If they’re driving at 100kph+ I’m surprised you can make out anything relating to whether they are Thai or Farangs? Based on a typical straw-poll observation of speeders on other roads, I’d say that the majority are Thai so it’s surprising why this particular stretch of road should attract so many speeding expats?

He explained how he knows they're expats - he's on those roads often enough to be able to recognize the vehicles and why there's so many expats (picking their kids up from the International School).

[Dannie Boy]

If they’re driving at 100kph+ I’m surprised you can make out anything relating to whether they are Thai or Farangs? Based on a typical straw-poll observation of speeders on other roads, I’d say that the majority are Thai so it’s surprising why this particular stretch of road should attract so many speeding expats?

He explained how he knows they're expats - he's on those roads often enough to be able to recognize the vehicles and why there's so many expats (picking their kids up from the International School).

I’m not familiar with this road so it’s quite likely that the international school increases the % of expat drivers, some of whom appears to be driving very fast and dangerously. However if we take Thailand as a whole then the likelihood of “meeting” a fast/badly driven car driven by a Thai is significantly greater - Im sure I have witnessed some expats driving fast/dangerously, but I can honestly say that where the driver can be identified (maybe no more than 50%) the majority have been Thai.


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[Big Boy]

As I've said, I drive that road 1 day every week at school chucking out time. I've noticed nothing untoward. The road has so many craters, that you couldn't realistically build up huge speeds, and not need your suspension regularly looked at. Even without the craters, at that time of the day, there are so many other drivers including school buses on the road, I find it improbable there are numerous Expat or Thai Drivers going around those roads at 120KPH.

My day on those roads is a Tuesday. Maybe it doesn't happen on a Tuesday, but anybody passing at 120KPH on those roads would stand out like a sore thumb.

[T.O.M.]

^^
You haven't got a clue.....!!
I have been going that road EVERY DAY for more than 15 years....Before the golf course and long before the school was even thought of.
Yes there are more traffic, when the school finishes....But it is not exactly heavy traffic......and there are NO school buses whatsoever ( a couple of minivans) so it is indeed possible to go 120 km/h on those (bad) roads in a SUV. Notice I mentioned Fortuner''s and Explorer's in my OP.
Conclusion: You are happy with your fellow drivers on that piece of road. I am not. End of story.

[Big Boy]

At that time of day, there is other traffic, so driving at 120Km would not be for very long. Most of the traffic is slowing down regularly to manoeuvre the potholes. At other times of the day, yes, I could believe drivers are trying to achieve those speeds. However, in your post you state.

I go in the Black Mountain area and normally around the time, when school is out at Hua Hin International School and the parents ( not retirees) are picking up their kids....and many of them drive like there is no tomorrow...And since I go the same route every day....I recognize the cars and the drivers...tinted windows or not.

It doesn't add up for me, but I'm sure if you say it's happening, then it is happening. Please be careful.

[T.O.M.]

^^
We must be coming from different directions...
All the way from Khao Noi Village past Summerland ( they have fixed the potholes before and after) the road is perfectly good until just before you reach y-junction near Big Boom (the cock fighting arena). That is a stretch of about 5 kilometers of perfectly good road, and even drivers of Ford pick-ups would easily manage to reach 120 km/h...
If you on the other hand is coming from the wake board/ water park direction, it is a completely different story...the road there is extremely bad (understatement)

[Big Boy]

Possibly (don't know Khao Noi Village past Summerland). I pick somebody up at the school, come out of the (self imposed) one way system and turn left towards Big Boom. I encounter the biggest of the pothole within a few yards. It's pretty rough as I turn right at Big Boom (beautiful road just laid if you turn left there ). There are quite a few nasty bits then until I turn right (actually straight on), where the road bears sharply left.

Unfortunately, most of the repairs seemed to involve stuffing what looked like a blue carrier bag into the hole first (no idea if this is common practice) before covering it with tarmac. A lot of these repairs are quickly returning to the way they were. I've no idea why they ignored that really big hole as you turn out of the school - have you?

There is no way on that stretch of road, going in the direction I travel that even Lewis Hamilton could achieve 120KPH for very long - too many other vehicles in the way, often slowing down for potholes.

[STEVE G]

The "blue carrier bag" that you saw there were plastic sacks of cold cure tarmac that they just chucked in the holes without opening them, letting the traffic do the rolling! I'm not sure that it was even done by the authorities because I saw a guy in a pickup doing it at the weekend a few months ago so it might have just been locals trying to make their road a bit better.

[Big Boy]

Really? I didn't think I'd seen the blue carrier bag approach before. Thank you for the enlightenment.

[T.O.M.]

The "blue carrier bag" that you saw there were plastic sacks of cold cure tarmac that they just chucked in the holes without opening them, letting the traffic do the rolling! I'm not sure that it was even done by the authorities because I saw a guy in a pickup doing it at the weekend a few months ago so it might have just been locals trying to make their road a bit better.

It is indeed the "authorities'....The guy in the old pickup doing the "repairs" is the village headman.

[buksida]

I've found 99% of the aggression on Thai roads is from Thai drivers. But such an anti-Thai statement is likely to offend the old codgers bumbling along on their bicycles getting in everyone's way while complaining about all of the other farangs in the tourist town they've chosen to live in.

[T.O.M.]

I've found 99% of the aggression on Thai roads is from Thai drivers. But such an anti-Thai statement is likely to offend the old codgers bumbling along on their bicycles getting in everyone's way while complaining about all of the other farangs in the tourist town they've chosen to live in.

On the bright side.....at least you are not living here....in Hua Hin that is.

The denial here of the existence of aggressive expat drivers.....wonder if that has anything to do with the connection:
Aggressive driving equals small-d***-syndrome......Just wondering

[Dannie Boy]

The reality is that western expats make up no more than 1% of the population so statistically the ratio of aggressive Thai drivers to western expats is bound to be much higher - it’s nothing to do with the size of the d***!!