PHUKET: Motorists in Phuket who suppose site visitors is bad right here ought to prepare themselves if they are planning a visit to Pattaya, where a person final week caused an enormous tailback on a serious highway after falling asleep on the wheel of his Jeep.
It took other residents and law enforcement officials an hour to awaken the dozing driver, who clung to his unconscious state for so lengthy that officers started to suspect he was dead.
A caller alerted Pattaya City Police to the issue at the tender hour of 5:30am on July 19.
Blacklisted , the report said, was parked at the visitors lights initially of Central Pattaya Road with its engine and lights on. The handbrake was set, and the car wouldn’t transfer when pushed.
Inside the car was a Thai man, aged 30-35, fast asleep in the driver’s seat.
The jeep was parked in a harmful place on a busy highway. As site visitors piled up behind it, drivers had to brake suddenly to keep away from crashing into different vehicles.
When officers arrived on the scene, they shouted at the driver to try to wake him up, but he didn’t budge. They additionally tried banging on the automobile and shaking it, however to no avail.
Then they tried blowing whistles and honking horns, but the man continued to sleep.
After an hour, the police decided to break into the vehicle, prising open one of the windows and waking the person up.
They gave him a cold towel and some water and he drove straight off before officers even had the chance to question him as to why he had fallen asleep there..