Only some impressions I had driving to Mae Sot on a normal week-day without bad weather and without lots of traffic; it's a shame how the Thai people are driving!

With so many lost in the bus tragedy near Mae Sot, relatives are struggling to comprehend how safety standards were left to slip to such dangerous lows.

Mae Sot is a tough town. It has to be. Located on a remote part of the Thai-Myanmar border it has seen its share of armed conflict, battered refugees, natural disasters and other hurts. Last week the town
was thrown into a maelstrom of grief after a bus carrying 53 of its villagers plunged over a cliff killing 30 and seriously injuring another 23.

Nearly half the buses fail stability tests


Bus plunges into ravine in Tak, killing 29, injuring 23

and so on and so on and so on.........................