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.

When I see you've quoted me, I sometimes wonder why I bother even looking....what are you on about?

Interestingly, when a farang did this in Pattaya, he got away with it and the story was covered up by the press.

soon to be introduced.... The new bio-metric system. The Entry/Exit System (EES) will be an automated system that will be used to register travellers from third countries each time they cross an EU external border, SchengenVisaInfo.comreports. Once it starts being functional in September, the system will protect the Schengen zone. In full respect of fundamental rights and data protection, the system will register the person’s name, type of travel document, biometric data (fingerprints and captures facial images), as well as the date and place of entry and exit. In addition, the system will also record entry refusals. The data will be gathered at land crossings, seaports, and air and then will be shared with the relevant government agencies. In reports I have seen so far, Brexiters havent realised the Etias scheme is Not a visitor permit being forced on us by Eu. As others have commented, our Government suggested it as a security/vetting document, valid for 3 years, to be used by non Eu member visitors to visit Eu member countries.

the arguments are above - it would appear you are incapable of grasping them - but I suppose you have a counter argument?

you're sealioning, baboon. get over it!

QED!!

Totally wrong - any increase are BELOW normal -they re trying to scrape back to the levels they were BEFORE Brexit - which BTW - is still going on. UK and Russia are the only 2 countries in the G7 facing recession.

No - you see they weren't there before - WE LEFT!!!! I used to cross the cannel every 2 weeks for nearly 25 years both as a tourist for business and in a truck - I can tell you categorically that Brexit has totally frecked this. It'ds thing to do with "the French" - the UK elected to leave the EU and are now a third country subject to all the restrictions any 3rd country faces when entering the EU. I don't know if Brexiteers have a problem with this - we are OUTSIDE the EU and therefore subject to all the usual customs and migration regulations the NON-MEMBERs face. It doesn't matter if you enter by France, Belgium. Netherlands Spain or even Germany you face th same restrictions. France even has tried to help by putting immigration and customs on ENGLISH soil at Dover........ We KNEW this was going to happen and we told it was "project fear" - I can't believe how obtuse some Brexiteers are...... the brexiteers lied before and now they are facing the truth - this ain't going away..... https://fb.watch/eumk_2s-hm/

incorrect on every aspect. The Irish protocol is a polar of the withdrawal agreemenrt which still has effects and regs to com in - some this month. for instance, there has been a period of grace on paperwork for VAT etc - they keep putting it n=back but one Dae was this July. Because ofCovid, people were unaware of t effects of Brexit and the full force has yet to be felt. We've already lost 10s 0f thoud=sands of workers and imports and exports are grinding to a halt. Dover is the single biggest route in the UK for imports and exports and it's being strangled - only now te =general public on their firs rips to the EU for 2 years or more are beginning to recognise what Brexiteers have done. watch this video - everything they say is the opposite of what has happened..... https://fb.watch/eumk_2s-hm/

This was called project fear.... and was accompanied by barefaced lies! https://fb.watch/eumk_2s-hm/

He's doing a Boris Johnson....

Hardly a surprise - this is a man who originally came to power on the authority of the barrel of a gun. If he thinks that's acceptable to get into power, what is acceptable to stay in power?

Just shows that there is BNO SYSTEM in place to do enforce road safety in Thailand. Who will they chase? the owner? the Driver? the keeper? Looks like any enforcement is going to be inconsistent to the point of fiasco.

Do you actually know what an oligarchy is?

Wil penalties be applied to the driver the owner, the keeper or the vehicle? ..... how will the law be applied when someone claims not to be the driver? first they need a photo from the front - do they have the stuff for that in every case? If they can't establish the driver, who do they go after. In UK law you have to say who te driver was or face a more severe penalty. It is the OWNER who has to do this, it is the REGULAR USER of te vehicle who is deemed responsible. so how will the Thai courts and legal system deal with this .... or does the accused just say they weren't driving and the matter fizzles out?

Looks like those with the idea ave had to hog-tie themselves with bureaucracy to keep the old school conservative happy