Every time I report on a tragedy, I can't help but wonder, what would happen if this happened to me?
Am I okay with that? How much time will it take me to come out?
When I see my daughter's charred, tiny body, can I hold myself from breaking down?
Back home, look at her empty bed, unfinished homework on the desk.
Reminiscing about the bits and pieces of her existence in the world.
How many nights do I have to be drowned in tears in the nightmare of the fire in the middle of the night before I can have the courage to face the next morning, to face this world without her?
I don't dare to think about it.
Just thinking about it brought tears to my eyes.
What about those who are actually in hell?
It was summer vacation in Thailand, and various schools were organizing school trips.
My daughter's school also has a summer camp.
It is also a double-decker bus to send more than 100 middle school students to camp in Khao Yai.
When the tragedy happened in Bangkok, parents were suddenly panicked and clamored to cancel their trips.
The school tried its best to comfort everyone, and also "intimately" posted photos of the bus to the group.
It's okay if you don't send it, but at a glance, the bus from my daughter's school is the same as the bus that caught fire in the accident - it can't be said to be extremely similar, it can only be said to be exactly the same.
As a result, the parents made even more trouble.
After the accident, people from all walks of life came forward to brush up on their presence.
Some wept, some scolded the street, some donated, and some came out to show the lower limit of IQ - "It is strongly recommended that Thailand completely cancel off-campus study activities".
I really admire that the Thailand Internet celebrities and parliamentarians who proposed to "cancel the trip" don't know how to assemble them in their heads.
Is this a problem with school spring and autumn outings?
The gymnasium collapsed, and you didn't check the gymnasium, but banned badminton from now on?
If students don't go out, there will be no Thailand on the street?
It stands to reason that when a disaster occurs, it is not very generous to criticize the entire country's social system and say how Thailand is.
However, this time, it really can't stop at the "isolated accident".
Thailand, indeed, has a big problem.
Accidents like this happen only sooner or later.
Thailand is recognized as a "country with a high incidence of traffic accidents".
According to the accident rate, that is, the number of car accident deaths in the fixed population base, Thailand ranks among the top in the world all year round, and the level is comparable to some war-torn African countries.
Every year, tens of thousands of people die in car accidents, with an average of 100 killed and injured every day.
Considering the size of Thailand's population, which is only equivalent to one province in China, you can appreciate how terrible this figure is.
In a country, the high rate of traffic accidents is nothing more than several reasons:
The car is not good.
People are not good.
The road is not good.
Thailand, how many are there?
The car is not good, which is a major problem in Thailand.
Moreover, to a large extent, it is not Thailand's poor problem, but the legal loopholes.
There is no mandatory scrapping system for cars in Thailand.
As long as you can pass the annual review, you can go on for a long time.
The private car is better, and the bus is even more rotten.
A few years ago, when I was working in the old town of downtown Bangkok, I had to dump several buses every day, and every day I sat on those Japan tin buses made in 1980, and I felt like I was going to fall apart at any moment.
Moreover, often walking, the car breaks down.
So the driver knocked everyone out of the car, called another old bus that was also dilapidated, and picked them up.
A car can be sewn and mended for forty years without falling apart, and the workmanship of the Japanese ghost back then is indeed two hits.
This time, there was a fire on the bus in Bangkok, and it was obvious that there was a problem with the car.
The car was not seriously impacted, and the basic structure of the body was basically intact, but it still immediately deflagrated and quickly engulfed the body.
Later, the car was first on the road in 1970!
Knowing Thailand cars, ridiculously old.
But I really didn't expect it to be so outrageous!
A 54-year-old car should lie in a museum and not run on the road.
In particular, it should not be used to send children.
Moreover, this car has also been transformed from a diesel engine to liquefied natural gas, and eleven atmospheric tanks are installed in front and back, which can be called a walking car bomb.
Only six gas tanks were allowed to be installed.
When the police went to check on the company, the owner and employees of the company were hurriedly unloading illegally installed gas canisters from other buses and were arrested.
How many more such cars are there in Thailand?
Who has taken a long-distance bus in Thailand and traveled to Thailand without riding this thing?
It seems that God should be thanked for being able to get out of the car alive.
But when a country's highways are full of 50-year-old gas-stuffed stitching monsters, the country's regulators are to blame.
Another reason for the frequent occurrence of traffic accidents is people.
The car doesn't work, it doesn't matter, people just drive slowly.
But Thailand is also problematic in this regard.
Chinese and Thai drivers, who is more outrageous?
Ten years ago, Chinese drivers might have been more ferocious; Now, Thailand drivers have "come from behind".
To be honest, under the exact same road environment and supervision conditions, in fact, Thailand people drive more gently than Chinese.
However, human nature cannot be relied upon.
Traffic safety, relying on consciousness, will never work.
It is necessary to rely on the deterrence of strict punishment and strict laws, on overwhelming monitoring, and on the thunderous means of revoking people's driver's licenses or even expelling them from public office in one step beyond the thunder pool, so that a country's driving habits can be "trained".
And Thailand's traffic laws are quite lax, violation fines can often be private with the traffic police on the spot, and every household has saved up a bunch of old tickets that have not been paid, and everyone has no intention of paying.
Thailand people drive, many drivers can take the initiative to give way to pedestrians, but there are also a considerable number of people, completely ignoring the sidewalk as nothing, whistling past, crashing and pulling down.
The humility and kindness of the national character are far from countering the lax abolition of rules, and lax law enforcement has led to unscrupulousness.
In China, although everyone is known as "deeply angry", it is said that the traffic rules of killing and decisiveness have taught life to be a living person.
Not long ago, the old man returned to China and found that no matter how good the road in the country, no one dared to speed, so that I was used to the "Thailand speed" and I always felt very unaccustomed.
Online car-hailing is even more rule-making, no matter what you say, people will never overload, even if it is a baby under the age of a month.
The ride-hailing app keeps asking you: Is the driver speeding? Is the air conditioner on? Do you play with your mobile phone while driving - if so, please don't be polite, one-click complaint, report your driver, and teach him to behave!
From the driver's point of view, this is the alienation of human nature by national regulations and business logic, which makes people take the blame at every turn.
But from the perspective of social security, only such a system can really work.
Thousands of fewer deaths a year and tens of thousands of shattered families are worth it, even if you put a camera on every driver's head.
But the Thailand people, obviously, can't, too lax regulations and backward management technology, blind the good temper of the Thailand people, and turn the Thailand into a group of opportunistic drag racing parties.
Thailand's ultra-high traffic accident rate, the biggest responsibility, is the Thailand people themselves.
The driver who escapes deserves death.
But even if he dies, what can change?
Compared with cars and people, Thailand's investment in transportation is quite passable.
Driving in the city, traveling across provinces, the same road leads to the sky, there is basically no difficulty, although the level of infrastructure is not as good as China, but it is already good in the world.
Therefore, Thailand wants to crash a few fewer cars and kill a few fewer people, and there is no other way but to upgrade Thailand's traffic laws, strictly enforce the law, and implement a mandatory vehicle scrapping system.
The classic cars on the streets, illegal private cars, and things that should have entered the museum, don't let them out to be scary.
I have also witnessed death.
More than 10 years ago, my college classmates and his girlfriend boarded a bus from northeast Thailand to Bangkok.
At four o'clock in the morning, a drowsy truck driver hit him head-on from the opposite road, and after the violent impact, the bus caught fire, killing dozens of people.
I still remember that on the day I confirmed the news, I sat on the side of the road at the bus stop, my internal organs seemed to be filled with cement, and my legs could not move half a step.
And I, just his classmates, the pain that his parents have endured, how many times is it here?
Today, the whole of Thailand is grieving and angry about the tragedy.
Perhaps the family of my deceased classmate also saw the news and was instantly pulled back to that night ten years ago, captured by those memories that can only be sealed, but can never be walked out.
The fire burns the heart, the sorrow is gloomy, and the night is sleepless.
This morning, I woke up early to drop my daughter off at school for her long-awaited summer camp.
At the moment of parting, I suddenly felt very scared.
It was hard to refrain from trying to stop her from entering the school gate, to prevent her from getting on a similar bus and driving far away.
I wanted to say to her, "Stay." ”
However, after all, it is impossible to say.
Of course, I know that tragedy cannot befall everyone's head so often, people are always like this, cautious after tragedy, in the face of shock.
But after a long time, it was gone, and everything was business as usual.
The so-called general investigation of the Thailand government, the so-called "solution to the problem within 60 days", is tantamount to a fool's dream.
The excited Thailand people will soon forget the news and continue to sit on the old antiques with gas canisters and speed on the highways of Thailand.
Until, the next tragedy struck.
On television, Thailand sent more than 20 ambulances to bring the bodies of the dead children and teachers home.
At night, sirens blaze through the silent streets of Thailand.
People stopped by the roadside to see them return.
I suddenly felt terrified of my recklessness in sending my children to summer camp to "gamble with the sky".
I don't want my kids to come home this way one day.
If Thailand does not change and cure the stubborn diseases that have been accustomed for many years, such tragedies will happen again sooner or later.
It's not our children, it's someone else's children.
Thailand, let's change it.
All destiny is man-made.
Let those 54-year-old antiques with gas canisters run on the roads of Thailand - this in itself is already a joke that must be ended.
Text: Thailand Net Old Man