Seven-day road safety campaign kicks off

By The Nation

 

Three female presenters promote road safety yesterday. The so-called seven dangerous days associated with the New Year period runs from yesterday to January.

 

THE INTERIOR Ministry yesterday kicked off its seven-day road-safety campaign for the New Year in an effort to lower the number of injuries, deaths and accidents on roads by trying to control factors causing road accidents.

Despite the intense campaign against risky driving behaviour such as drunk and reckless driving, reports of road accidents and fatalities continued to pour in from across the country, especially on the main highways, as people embarked on their holiday travels yesterday.

 

 

Interior Minister General Anupong Paojinda, who also heads the Road Safety Operation Centre, announced the official opening of the Road Accident Prevention Command Centre, marking the first day yesterday of the seven-day road safety promotion period until January 3.

 

 

Anupong said the slogan for the campaign was “Driving with thoughtfulness, respecting the traffic rules”. He said that during the period, the Road Safety Operation Centre, under the control of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department, would work in collaboration with all related agencies and local authorities to promote road safety in order to achieve the goal of decreasing the number of accidents, injuries and fatalities.

 

 

“We are focusing on controlling every risk factor causing road accidents – vehicles, drivers, road condition and environment – by strictly enforcing the traffic laws, monitoring dangerous driving behaviour, setting up more traffic checkpoints and managing the traffic to provide both convenience and safety to all road users,” he said.

 

He said during the early and late stages of the campaign, officers would prioritise inter-city highways because most people would be travelling out of Bangkok to their destinations across the country and then returning to the capital, while officers would focus on enforcing road safety on local roads during the interim period.

 

“We would like to urge drivers not to drive too fast, not to drink and to avoid using mobile phones.” 

 

He said drivers should avoid driving when they were feeling sleepy and use safety equipment to save their own lives and those of other road users from fatal road accidents.

 

 

Meanwhile, the Road Safety Operation Centre also had duties to ensure the safety of public transport, as public vehicles and drivers would be examined before departing terminals, while officials would provide water transport safety and assist emergency medical services in case of accidents, he said.

 

Despite the road safety measures, road accidents were reported from every part of the country on the first day yesterday, with some fatalities.

 

One death was reported from a road accident on Highway No 37 to the South. The road was slippery due to the rains, creating dangerous conditions for driving.

 

 

Commuters ride in the back of a pickup after authorities permitted the transport mode despite acknowledged risks.

 

Six accidents were reported yesterday on the highway in Prachuap Khiri Khan’s Hua Hin district because of slippery road conditions.

 

High traffic volumes were reported on highways to the Northeast in Nakhon Ratchasima’s Pak Chong district and Prachin Buri, while traffic was still light on highways to the North.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30334997

 

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3 minutes ago, webfact said:

officials would provide water transport safety

 

Good ideas/article, but they lost me on the water transport safety???

7 minutes ago, webfact said:

Despite the intense campaign against risky driving behaviour such as drunk and reckless driving, reports of road accidents and fatalities continued to pour in from across the country, especially on the main highways, as people embarked on their holiday travels yesterday.

 

"...despite the intense campaign..."

 

Perhaps this is the root of the problem?

 

Perhaps there needs to be some other form of action to deal with this problem?

 

Perhaps there needs to be... effective law enforcement and policing?

Make it 364 days road safety campaign and you just might make a dent

in the number of dead and injured on Thailand's roads....

 

Says it all. Don't drink and drive, simple message.

 

Chicken essence? I hope that Brands will take responsibility when someone has a accident and claims the essence given by police backed by Brands as a way to keep awake, didn't work.

Obviously it starts with education and they are doing that in the Thai way. I hope this makes a difference.

I passed a police check-point yesterday.  I counted nine 'officers' on duty. None took the slightest interest in the traffic going past; chatting/phones appeared to be their duty-for-the-day.

I am convinced that the majority of time spent in the road safety committee meetings is on coming up with the slogan.

1 minute ago, DoctorG said:

I am convinced that the majority of time spent in the road safety committee meetings is on coming up with the slogan.

They do seem good at that don't they?

 

All this one is missing is the chicken extract. 

4 minutes ago, jaywalker said:

They do seem good at that don't they?

 

All this one is missing is the chicken extract. 

No chicken, but there appears to be a lot of bovine by-product.

Just now, BigBadGeordie said:

No chicken, but there appears to be a lot of bovine by-product.

Yes, both gaseous and solids.

i see nothing wrong in the picture, nobody is sitting on the edges in the back 

of the pickup. Finally they understood the rule ! 

"Commuters ride in the back of a pickup after authorities permitted the transport mode despite acknowledged risks."

 

Authorities are either not serious about road safety, or they are just plain stupid and badly need to employ people with knowledge and experience in this area, or both?

Still glad to be in a country where this is allowed.

Still glad to be in a country where this is allowed.

You've been in Thailand too long?


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This, and most all campaigns in Thailand look like a kindergarten TV show. SMH

Huh. How come those girls can wear those distracting short dresses for government purposes, but get into trouble if they do it at the Car Show?

Not that. Complaining...

Are the three female presenters road side to promote road safety? as they could  easily cause a trouser accident.

Trang is to be congratulated for the decrease shown over the last few years.  Hopefully it continues this year.

26 minutes ago, BuaBS said:

Still glad to be in a country where this is allowed.

But those inside MUST wear seatbelts ... RIGHT ?

 

3 minutes ago, krobert6 said:

But those inside MUST wear seatbelts ... RIGHT ?

 

Not if they have 80 % tinted windows .

7 days... and then the madness resumes.

The factors that cause road accidents, it's very simple, Thai people do not think they have to obey the law, there we go that's it done. Sort this out and you're nearly cured.

1 hour ago, krobert6 said:

But those inside MUST wear seatbelts ... RIGHT ?

 

And that guy in the yellow top is falling asleep ----- give him a bottle of chicken shit 

... and all Porn Sites from all over the world blocked since yesterday. Maybe the "government" doesn't want that Thais get horny while watching porn on the 7 dangerous days. No kidding!!

Good idea!
Let's kick off another road safety campaign!

Im sure the cute girls, dancing around, will improve traffic safty! Maybe the gov is just concentrating on the 10 year olds that drive.

so which missing day of the year would it be ?

I swear I've seen the those girls in a Tiger Beer dress at Central World ????????

If only the police would do their job .........

In a week a few hundred Thais, in good health and spirit, will be dead which will keep the crematoriums going, families will have lost a father, daughter, auntie, sister or husband while companies will be missing an employee, a class will grieve over a student - the entire exercise will affect tens of thousands of people. 

The nasty bit is, that all this could be easily avoided by 1) education at the DLT and 2) very, very steep fines. 

But yeah, as long as the system is the way the system is ............ how sad!