Drunk driving cases clog courts

 

 

New Year holiday period marred by high fatality rate on nation's roads.

 

MOST CONVICTS put on probation by courts between last Thursday and this Tuesday were punished for drunk driving. 

 

“Of all probation cases during those six days, 89.3 per cent, or 3,515 cases, were about drunk drivers,” Corrections Department director-general Prasarn Mahaleetrakul said yesterday. 

 

He said all these convicted drunk drivers would also have to do community services and improve their behaviour. 

 

“They must not repeat their offences,” Prasarn said. 

 

He was speaking on the last of the “Seven Dangerous Days” associated with the New Year 2018. 

 

As many as 3,456 road accidents occurred during the first six days of the holiday period, killing 375 people and injuring 3,612.

 

On Tuesday, which was the sixth day of the seven-day monitoring period, 400 road accidents occurred, killing 51 people and injuring 431.

 

Drunk-driving contributed to over 40 per cent of the accidents, while speeding accounted for a further 28.5 per cent.

 

 Almost 80 per cent of the vehicles involved in road accidents were motorcycles.

 

Several road accidents also occurred yesterday. In Mahasarakham, a van carrying New Year holidaymakers back to Bangkok drove into a ditch, injuring the driver and 12 passengers, police said.

 

Police said the accident happened at 2.30am on a main road in Tambon Huay Eng in Mahasarakham’s Muang district.

 

The driver and passengers suffered from chest pains and bruises, and were sent to the Mahasarakham Hospital.

 

Passengers said they had hired the van to take them from Kalasin to Bangkok and left Kalasin at 8pm. At the time of the accident, most passengers were asleep.

 

Police believe the driver dozed off and the vehicle plunged into the ditch.

 

In another accident, five people were injured when a van from Praram 9 Hospital carrying donated human organs crashed into the concrete base of a communication switching cabinet in Ayutthaya early yesterday.

 

Police said the accident happened at 4am in Tambon Sanab Tueb in Wang Noi district.

 

The van driver, Somboon Vattanakit, told police that a car cut in front of his van and he swerved to the left and crashed into the concrete base on the roadside.

 

Somboon and four staff members of a medical team were injured. They were identified as Thawatchai Klinsukhon, Haruethai Sathanbua, Pussadee Wannarat and Sudarat Paengkaew.

 

The five were rushed to Wang Noi Hospital.

 

The team was taking donated organs from Chaiyaphum to Praram 9 Hospital when the accident occurred.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30335325

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-01-04

9 minutes ago, webfact said:

In another accident, five people were injured when a van from Praram 9 Hospital carrying donated human organs crashed into the concrete base of a communication switching cabinet in Ayutthaya early yesterday.

They just can't win for losing can they?

 

"Quick Nurse Jiraporn, get me a donated spleen!"

 

"So solly Dr. Somchai. The van bringing us a fresh batch of spleens crashed on its way here".

Edited January 3, 20188 yr by jaywalker

Drunk driving cases clog courts

 

Fine them all 50,000 Baht each, impound their car/bikes for another 25,000 Baht and suspend their licences for a year.

 

No more clog.

 

 

 

Edited January 3, 20188 yr by Samui Bodoh
Lack of coffee

A giant problem that has been left festering for decades comes back to bite

the authorities on their ass, and judging by the number of fatalities, drivers

are largely ignore the new order or just think that they're not going to be

caught, and now that something is finally done about it, the courts

are clogged with the large numbers of drunk drivers, clearly, police

and the rest of the law enforcement bodies are not in tune....

 

1 hour ago, webfact said:

They must not repeat their offences,

Guess that´s going to work just perfect. 

Bangkok Post front page has Surin at 361 with Bangkok a distant 2nd at 288. 

2 hours ago, Samui Bodoh said:

Drunk driving cases clog courts

 

Fine them all 50,000 Baht each, impound their car/bikes for another 25,000 Baht and suspend their licences for a year.

 

No more clog.

 

 

 

Haaa.....they'll just borrow cousin Daengs motocy.....back in business! Who needs a licence?

2 hours ago, Samui Bodoh said:

Drunk driving cases clog courts

 

Fine them all 50,000 Baht each, impound their car/bikes for another 25,000 Baht and suspend their licences for a year.

 

No more clog.

 

 

 

 

Those punishments would be handed down from the court - so yes - still clogged.

1 hour ago, PatOngo said:

Haaa.....they'll just borrow cousin Daengs motocy.....back in business! Who needs a licence?

Licence? LOL Up here I bet a/b 99% don't have one. Hell kids big enough to reach the controls - usually - ride motorbikes. And ride them the way most adults do i.e. wrong side of the road etc.  These are examples of no real police force in Thailand - by Western standards. 

I have 4 kids, a 3 year old, an 8 year old and twin boys that are 13, non of them ride a motorbike, non of them will in Thailand as long as I am breathing, or they turn 18 and live away from their home.

 

Now that is coming from someone who has ridden many motorbikes from the age of 13 through to his late 50's.

 

Thailand is unsafe for any motorbike rider, why, because they don't know how to ride, there should be mandatory laws making anyone who wants to ride a motorcycle, to do a course, when and only when they pass the riding course, they can apply for a motorcycle license, guarantee you there will be less deaths on Thai roads then, that is if they also stay off the booze and drugs while riding 555

i think the death toll is down this year by about 20,due to the chicken essence ,was also said in hi so areas they were getting Duck essence,but only if you really needed it.