Cambodia News, Sihanoukville: On the afternoon of May 2, 2020, there was a traffic accident on the train tracks in Ou Trach village, Samrong commune, Prey Nup district, Preah Sihanouk province. Authorities confirmed that a train heading for Sihanoukville from Phnom Penh hit a vehicle, which was parked on the tracks, a white HYUNDAI truck with plates Phnom Penh 3E-3529. The driver of the vehicle fled the accident scene.


In addition to the wreckage of the locomotive and the vehicle, there were no casualties, and police have been dispatched from the Sihanoukville district police headquarters for further investigation.

CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Sat May 02, 2020 9:14 pm hit a vehicle, which was PARKED on the tracks

Parked? Really?

I find this very hard to believe, but I suppose in the Kingdom of Wonder with totally competent truck drivers nothing surprises me anymore.

(Maybe it should have been 'stuck'? But..., still...)

frizzie77 wrote: ↑Sat May 02, 2020 10:19 pm

CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Sat May 02, 2020 9:14 pm hit a vehicle, which was PARKED on the tracks

Parked? Really?

I find this very hard to believe, but I suppose in the Kingdom of Wonder with totally competent truck drivers nothing surprises me anymore.

(Maybe it should have been 'stuck'? But..., still...)

Good point. Could be parked because stuck ?

jaynewcastle wrote: ↑Sat May 02, 2020 11:07 pm Doesn't matter how stupid it seems, if it happened in Cambodia, its probably true.

When the railway line to Snooky re-opened a couple of years or so ago, there were many people killed & vehicles hit by the train.

I remember one case, when a drunk man decided to have a sleep on the railway tracks , yes, he was killed by the train when it arrived

Yes, there were (and will be, I'm afraid) quite a number of incidents on the Cambodian railway tracks with sleeping drunk men overrun by trains.
There must be something really alluring of railway tracks to put your head down on them while drunk.
Unfortunately, we cannot ask the guys anymore what exactly it is...

Old school wild west train attack !

Kayve wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2020 2:51 pm Old school wild west train attack !

The 70's to the 90s, and I don't mean 1870s

This is where i go back to my pet little theory.
That the "stupidity" we so often note in Cambodia is not that, in essence.

Buddhism is supposed to teach cause and effect. Karma.
But that principle has been twisted here over the millennia into fatalism. This has actually removed logical, cause and effect, thinking from the Khmer mindset.
It is not only that they believe if a truck hits them when they pull out onto a street without looking, that their destiny is already set. It has actually removed logical, cause and effect, thinking from the Khmer mindset.

You have to practice logic for centuries for it to truly take hold amongst a population - it is not innate.
Thank God (oops) for The Enlightenment, or we would be as "stupid" about many things as we were just 3/400 years go.
Or less.
The Buddha's teaching, from my understanding, is very scientific, logical and rational - but that has been lost in most countries where it has been practiced for so long.