A Close Look At Thai Driving Rules
The following is an extract from
Farang Affairs , The Nation;
- Ensure your vehicle comes to a full halt before paying a bribe.
- To facilitate traffic flow, please have correct bribe amount ready.
- Drivers of luxury European cars are not required to stop at police checkpoints.
- If involved in a minor traffic accident, try to ensure that at least two lanes of traffic are blocked, and do not move vehicles until police arrive 3 hours later.
- Sounding horn to wake up officer manning police traffic booth to get him
switch traffic light signal to green is prohibited.
- Give way to bus drivers fleeing the scene of an accident.
- Motorcyclists must wear crash helmets sometimes.
- Be considerate and allow short people and old ladies to the front of the crowd at horrific accident scenes.
- Excercise care while driving under the influence of alcohol, especially if talking on mobile phone.
- It is mandatory for motorcylists to switch on headlights during the daylight hours. Switching on headlights at night is optional.
- A series of white, evenly spaced rectangular markings occassionally found painted across roads are known as "pedestrian crossings". Ignore them.