He's distracted thinking. It's been ten years since he's been in Viangpha Mork, and he has a lot of hopes that it will be better than Bangkok. Probably irrational hopes, but hopes nonetheless.
He's seen what happens to distracted drivers often enough. He should be focusing on the road, but he isn't.
--At least the accident he has is different.
The road just... ceases to exist. And then, just as suddenly, so does the car. It's a jumble, to fast to process, and he only picks up on what happens as he picks himself up off the ground and realises that there should be a road, and a car, and vaguely familiar scenery, and there just... isn't.