Thunglom

Choose your area with care - you need to speak to the locals and find out heir attitudes. Don't settle anywhere near a temple - they are sanctuaries for dogs and people will love animals there in the hope the ones will feed them. Any dog population must have food. check their food sources - this is usually domestic garbage. BUT there is also the problem that local people think they make merit by feeding these dogs. So long as their is food there, you will NEVER get rid of dogs- The population depends on the availability of resources (food, water, shelter), and human acceptance. If you can restrict this, you can restrict the population.

Stats are not facts, what is important is how you interpret them. If you look at the wiki stats, there are some important points often overlooked by those making conclusions in error about road safety in Thailand. firstly check out the sources then look at the various stats offered for Thailand , then check the Thai position on the various tats and Baer in mind the this is jut one secondary source out of many. Firstly these relate to road DEATHS – they do not include injuries either serious or minor spo large part of the picture is missing. What they include Deaths per.. 100k inhabitants – Thailand 4th from top 100k motor vehicles – 102nd from the top - (the favourite figure used in USA stat gathering) 1 billion vehicle km – Not available in Thailand! And Total deaths (estimated) for each country. They count 22,000 in 2016 which is 10,000 less than the current estimate over 2 years used by Zuboti

It would seem you haven't really thought about how road design affects road safety. In fact long wide straight roads invite various dangerous driving situations.

Thailand deaths per 100k in 4- wheeled (private, buses and commercial vehicles etc) = 8.829 USA – deaths per 100k in 4 wheeled (private only) = 10.6 - [Insurance Institute for Highway Safety]

Thai 4-wheeled vehicles have a lower death rate than the USA.

You underline the misconception quite clearly. At "home" people feel comfortable when driving - in a different environment, they feel more stressed and often put this down to other drivers rather tan themselves. The statistics show that you are MORE likely to die in a 4-wheeled private vehicle in the USA than you are in Thailand.

Comment after comment based on personal anecdote prejudice and perception People just don't realise that because they are stressed by the different driving conditions in Thailand, they decide the it's everyone else but themselves so they assess driving as "dangerous". they then chip in with personal prejudices and anecdotes about "fortuner drivers" "pickups" etc as if this is evidence when in reality you are LESS likely to die in a 4-wheeled vehicle in Thailand than in the USA. But they fell "comfortable" driving in the USA. Then there is the false perception that the "denser" the traffic there "dangerous" it is..... Remember the plural of "anecdote" is "anecdotes" not data

BTW - It eases me that people complain about being "tailgated" - get out of the way!

This is nonsense! I just wonder what Zutobi think they are doing. All they use is the same old stats used by everyone else and make some illogical conclusions. There are several ways of looking at statistics and Zutobi don't seem to even start. At the end of the day, they use the one single cliches stat that everyone falls back on - i.e. deaths per 100k of population... these are not the only star used in coming to conclusions about road safety. Most people choose to ignore things like serious and minor injuries and the actual number of collisions you can also look at.... Serious Injuries per 1 million inhabitants Minor injuries per 1 million inhabitants Deaths per 10 billion vehicle-KM Deaths per 100,000 registered vehicles Registered vehicles per 1000 inhabitants It also is not clear from the article which govern spokesman is speaking - South Africa or Thailand. In the end their conclusion appears to be 32,000 deaths means Thai roads are second most "dangerous" - this is a purely subjective term. It ignores the 80% plus of of vulnerable road user deaths and ignores precisely what they mean by "dangerous" and to whom. It also over looks the possibility that in the most "dangerous" part might actually the emergency services. i.e. Thailand has marginally more collisions than th UK but the results are more deadly.