not only motorcycle riders sadly, lorry drivers who watch a television whilst driving on the road, car drivers who have music so loud they cannot hear emergency vehicles,cyclists who wobble all over the place when going up a hill instead of walking with their bike. If you remember that you are in charge of a vehicle which is capable of causing death, drive with respect for all other road users, smile and say thanks, give way in traffic etc etc

robin, don\'t you dare talk about cyclists. Riding up a hill is a tough job and walking, well.. it beats the purpose. It\'s up to the law makers to make roads technically safe and bear in mind that there are all kinds of transportation vehicles (that INCLUDES bicycles), which have to be accounted when designing the transportation system. Not to mention the positive aspects of cycling and the negative of motorized vehicles.

It gets even worse. I live in Thailand. The new government set by Taksin\'s sister, has just announced that the mass public transportation infrastructure will be delayed and eventually canceled in order to finance their new policy: \"every students in the country as well as police officer gets a free tablet computer.\"
This is outrages. Not only will the people that were planning the travel by the public transport buy new cars and motorcycles, therefore increasing traffic resulting in more accidents, but the cops currently control traffic lights. During peak time, you often see the red light on for 1 hour. This is because the cops are watching their favorite Thai soap opera on TV. Now that they will get the tablets, they will have another reason to forget doing their jobs.
Occasionally, I work on movies. I once did a movie role as a cop (full uniform) in the infamous city Pataya. After shooting, I sat down next to the real Thai cop and asked him why he doesn\'t stop those motorcyclists passing by. They dont wear helmets, talk on phones, carry dogs or babies, driver wears helmet but his 3 sons dont, etc. He said he is off duty. I asked him that if he stopped all of those people, then he could get rich off fines and stop this atrocity in one day! I asked: Aren\'t you scared the kids might die if there is an accident? He said not to worry, the kids NEVER die...So I stood up, told him to watch how its done, went to the side of the road and halted the first motorcycle that was wrong. They stopped, ready for a ticket. The cop got pissed off and sat on his motorcycle, without a helmet drove away.
It all comes from example. If cops were to do the right driving manners, wouldn\'t the people follow suit? In addition, he tried to convince me that if he stopped all the motorcycles (and did his job properly) in a week, he could get loads of bribes, but for the rest of the year, no more bribes so no more money. They plan their jobs 1 day per week.
What corruption. I am disgusted. And don\'t get me going about the vehicle drivers here in Thailand, especially the \"hi-so\" rich with their USD 400,000 (imported tax) AMG e-class mercedes and BMW\'s and so on....

Bikes wobble. When pedaling uphill, when biking in windy conditions, when avoiding potholes and other road debris. It\'s a natural condition of biking.
The same applies to equestrians, skaters, kids and old people. They wobble. Please adapt your driving style. Cars don\'t own the roads.

Although I agree with most of what is written in this article, and some of those pictures, I am conditioned to be shocked by.
However, please remember that we are designed by nature with a basic need to take risk, especially young males. Without this need, the human race could not have survived. Right now, we have never lived in such risk free times, but I\'m sure we have lived in happier times.
Humans can be so arrogant in that we believe the laws of nature that apply to animals in general, don\'t apply to us.
It\'s a shame.

Note that ALL the adults shown in the photos are wearing helmets....none of the children are.......are kids cheap over there? Ian Colley.

Sorry to see so few posts, and some of those off the subject, on this important article.
As long as we have had cell phones, all the studies have demonstrated that their use while driving is as dangerous as DUI, i.e., driving drunk, and their use while driving has caused as many deaths as driving drunk.
And those results were prior to the arrival of texting.
Just those killed in the US from using cell phones while driving exceed the aggregate number of people killed by actual terrorism world-wide annually. But protecting people from the self-focused idiots who use cell phones while driving would not reap the political benefits that scaring people about terrorism does. Were any government interested in protecting the lives of its citizens, it would prioritize by risk to life. The US certainly does not, and I expect that none do.

Regardless of what idiot adults do, there is NO excuse for risking the lives of innocent children, commonplace amongst the photos posted. Stacked up like sardines and without even a hint of the protection afforded by a helmet, this is a disgrace. I feel sorry for these helpless little kids. Why would YOU wear a helmet but not have one for your child?

I often wonder why is it that most folks are unable to take things as they are? Those motorcycle/scooters in Asia are the family cars. They are proud of them, proud to take the whole family on them. It is their own lives they are risking, too. And helmets are simply beyond them financially. Yes, \"innocent\" children die every day, all over the world. So do innocent adults. Are the latter somehow less valuable than the former? Would you prefer that they all live to 120 so as to truly overfill the world?
So mind your own damned business instead of calling for new laws, complaining about conditions in a country where you do not live and generally making a nuisance of yourself. Get a life of your own and try to live it without poking your nose into everyone else\'s!

Right on TheRogue1000! Apparently if you eat just right, exercise all the time and never do ONE SINGLE dangerous thing EVER you will NEVER DIE! Now I\'m not suggesting for a moment that people shouldn\'t be careful where ever possible BUT we have become such nanny state safety-crats the world over that it\'s amazing to me that anybody has the ability to stay alive on there own anymore? For one thing I\'d say people don\'t really, but haven\'t we always as been a species of risk takers through out our human history? And besides if you believe in evolution why are you all trying to stop this whole \"survival of the fittest\" thing from taking place? That\'s just the way we\'re wired isn\'t it? Yes it\'s dump what people do in defiance of absolute common since but REALLY stop trying to outlaw everything? There are TON\'S of laws the world over to deal with people who mess up and believe me I\'ve had to deal with a few! You\'ll never stop stupid human antics with piles of intrusive laws, and don\'t tell me that you hope I get hurt or killed by one of these people because of what I think, you\'ll more then likely be injured or killed just the same even if there are draconian laws in place to protect you and then what good was the law to you? I\'ll figure out how to survive on my own thank you!