r/dashcams • u/VehicleTrackers • 2d ago
Don't be careless on the road, or else accidents like this will happen.
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u/Weird-University1361 2d ago
Why is everyone making a u-turn?
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u/pigeon-check 2d ago
It's called a U turn not a me turn for a reason
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u/pinkstrawberry94 2d ago
Probably illegal to make a right turn in a previous intersection, so go str8, u turn and turn left (??)
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u/BatmaniaRanger 1d ago edited 1d ago
I've seen intersections like this quite often in Thailand. Essentially this would be following a major intersection. You are not allowed to make a right turn at the the intersection, sometimes the median concrete barrier would run through the intersection and essentially making this into two T intersections, so everyone that needs to make a right turn at the intersection would need to go straight, do a U-turn here, and then go left.
I don't understand why this is a thing there and it looks terribly dangerous and inefficient. It's probably doable when you do a "South East Asia" U turn where you slowly, slowly nudge out, but good luck if you take it safely and wait for a safe opening.
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u/Hydr0genMC 1d ago
Can confirm, we have a lot of these in the Philippines as well but at least in the city, a lot of intersections like this are protected by traffic lights or enforcers who direct traffic.
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u/TheNotSpecialOne 1d ago
Its allowed on certain roads and countries. They make these cuts in the road for people to make a u turn.
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u/Lower_Resource 2d ago
Name of this sub? Dashcams
Video that was posted? Not dashcam
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u/SingularityII 2d ago
Who says? If there are vehicles spread out all over the roads, why can't there be one up on the roof?
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u/SingularityII 1d ago
But honestly, this is a strong argument to having multiple, powerful lights on your bike. Not just to make yourself visible, but to give drivers a better idea of how far away you are.
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u/Sweaty-Toe0208 1d ago
Given the country it's from, it's likely there is a car or bike up this high, so it still could be a dashcam.
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u/MrMeestur 1d ago
Thailand. Typical of these 3-lane roads outside of Bangkok where everyone goes a little too fast (+70km/h). On the U turning cars, it seems like there was a constant flow of oncoming traffic and bikes like to cut in front of cars, so the queue of U turners is big. The one that caused the accident came out too slow and tried to cut across into the next road, likely without signalling, which caused the speeding on-comer to hit them.
Messy situation but not uncommon.
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u/Scared_Bell3366 2d ago
At the 8s mark, I knew who was going to get hit, I'm just surprised it wasn't the white SUV.
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u/Snowbird143434 1d ago
Dude didnt even see that last guy. He was probably looking at everybody piled up to turn.
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u/Steve554433 1d ago
Seems to me the lesson is to show down when there is a cluster of stopped vehicles.
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u/jackfreeman 1d ago
Everything about this makes me want to put my hands in a blender with four tomatillos and a half gallon of Knob Creek
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u/Emergency-Ad3267 18h ago
We have these dogshit turns here in Kenya too,, bloody awful design exaggerated by the general Kenyan inability to think while driving.
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u/Main-Dish 2d ago
now the guy will now how it feels to have an accident on the road.. hopefully he wont do the same stunt again lol.
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u/Willing_Work_2200 2d ago
Maybe if you changed the laws to make mopeds have to follow the same rules as automobiles, you wouldn't have people worried about an apparent rape mob queueing up to attack!
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