Have you ever felt nervous driving alongside or behind a truck carrying industrial machinery or (even worse) lumber that seems to be hanging on precipitously by little more than hope?
Truck driver Mr. Thanasit Songanjan isn’t doing much to alleviate your fears. On Sunday afternoon he loaded a backhoe onto his 10-wheel truck and – “driving only a short distance” – decided against using ropes or chains to hold it down.
In a predictable demonstration of basic physics, the backhoe slid off the bed of the truck and crashed on its side on Vibhavadi Rangsit Road in Pathum Thani when Mr. Thanasit took a right turn at Poonsaub T-junction.
The Bangkok Post reports that the accident backed up traffic for several kilometers. Whether or not traffic would have been backed up anyway is open to debate.
Workers spent about an hour lifting the backhoe back onto the truck using a crane. It is not clear whether or not Mr. Thanasit then tied the load down before completing his journey since the destination was even closer by that point.
