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    Irish student, 20, killed in road crash in Thailand

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    2. Dull_Consequence7192 on

      That’s tragic. RIP.

      I was in Thailand many years ago and I rented a scooter and got into an accident myself. Luckily I had no serious injuries, just a few scrapes. A local stopped to help me up and they told me that tourists have accidents on scooters all the time, with a high numbers of fatalities in tourist spots like the islands.

    3. blithelyunawareguy on

      Poor fella, RIP. Does anyone know the details of the crash, or even whereabouts in Thailand it happened? Can’t find anything about it.

      Pure speculation but it’s rainy season over there atm so I wonder if that was a factor, scooters are lethal in the wet with their small wheels if you don’t have experience.

    5. PurpleDinosaurr2 on

      I travelled Thailand and other south East Asian countries and the amount of tourists I’ve seen wrapped in bandages. Just days before going to one of the islands, I read a story of a crash where the tourist got thrown so hard, hit their head, brains splattered. Absolutely gruesome. Plenty of them without helmets, going way too fast for certain road conditions.

      My heart goes out to his family and his girlfriend.

    6. Hopeful-Vanilla-2800 on

      Very sad news. Young guy with his life ahead of him. Ar dheis dé go raibh a anam díllis!

    7. CarelessEquivalent3 on

      I worked in Thailand for a few years at a resort that also rented scooters for as cheap as €3 euro per day. We’d get people wanting to rent them all the time that had no previous experience, I’d always advise against it but they knew better, they were also way too cool to wear a helmet. I’d usually see them again that evening hobbling through the resort, all bandaged up and on crutches, crying down the phone because their travel insurance wouldn’t cover them as they didn’t have a motorcycle license. A couple of them died. Late one night I came across an accident myself on an unlit jungle road on the island I lived on, a young local girl dead on the side of the road, half her head missing. An image I won’t ever forget. People think that scooters are safer than motorbikes but the road doesnt know what you fell from when your head hits it at 100 km/ph. Thailand has some of the highest road fatalities in the world, it’s absolutely no place for an inexperienced rider. I lived in Bangkok and down south but I’m familiar with the road the accident happened on. It’s treacherous even on four wheels, I’m an experienced motorcyclist myself and even I’d be nervous doing that journey on a bike but I also understand that at that age you feel invincible. Many of us make poor choices at that age, I sure as fuck did but he looks a decent lad, I hope his family are ok.

    8. MakingBigBank on

      Ah god, that’s terrible sad news. A young guy with it all ahead of him. RIP. Thoughts are with his poor family in this dreadful time.

    12. roxykelly on

      My cousin passed away in a scooter accident in Spain. It was a horrific time for our family and I can’t imagine what this family is feeling at this time. So tragic.

    14. strokejammer on

      One of the maddest things I’ve ever done is ride a scooter in Thailand, metal stuff altogether. RIP!

    17. Paddystock on

      So tragic, a horrible price to pay for having some fun on a scooter on holidays. RIP to Max and his girlfriend.