Road deaths, injuries up for first 2 days of Songkran

[samsensam]

2 hours ago, markaoffy said:

60,000 drunk drivers in 2 days, and that’s only the ones caught!! Ever need an example of how irresponsible and selfish people are !


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good point, if the shockingly inept, lazy and unprofessional RTP have managed to put their facebook feeds down long enough to catch 60,00, just imagine how many drunk drivers there are out there. terrifying.

[peperobi]

I really do not understand The Nation and Thai Visa, a few months ago you wrote about 26,000 death people by road accidents per year this is an average of 71 peoples a day now during the peak time Songkran is 99 in two days so less than the year average...can someone tell me what the true is.

[Lupatria]

2 hours ago, rooster59 said:

National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) deputy spokesperson Colonel Sirichan Ngathong said that road travel was still far from safe,

It's time for the Karaoke King to consider recording a Thai rendition of:

"Helplessly Hoping".

[RichardColeman]

2 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Officers have seized 835 motorcycles and total confiscated 356 motorcycle driving licences.

So, the other 500 odd had no licences then ? 

[kannot]

2 hours ago, Lungstib said:

The Thai population has spoken. They wholeheartedly believe in the right to drink and drive at any speed they wish, forego crash helmets and create water throwing hazards on the highway. Rules are not to be obeyed but broken. Its been going on for years and efforts to stop it are repeatedly ignored. All thats left is to decide if this a majority decision.

Just about sums up the reality of life here with everything, unfortunately the majority are usually pretty  dim but then having ha d a crap education and years of indoctrination its  no surprise

[maccastime]

Only 3 days and 99 killed? Same same every year. Best time of year to either walk about leave the car at home. Or do as I do stay home

[ratcatcher]

2 hours ago, YetAnother said:

beating us about the head with the obvious; the numbers are nutsly bad

"...nutsly bad".

That sounds very much like a Trumpism

 

[mr_lob]

Well i for one want to stick up for the boys in brown. I drove past a 'checkpoint' yesterday and there were 5 of the nation's finest doing a stellar job. 

One of them got to level 18 on angry birds and the other 4 were clearly chatting to their giks on fb / taking care of business

[datcook]

As I have said before and will say again it is about time that the authorities showed some guts and CRUSHED the seized vehicles. Until they do this the toll will continue to rise

[Somchai Logic]

2 hours ago, cornishcarlos said:

 

That's not a great deal of deterrent %% 

Should read 32,592 bikes and licences were confiscated !! Never mind, at least they will hang on to No.1 status for at least another year..

Yep, you beat me to it. Absolutely useless enforcement here. They will NEVER learn. Sorry, correction they are incapable of learning 

[Somchai Logic]

27 minutes ago, peperobi said:

I really do not understand The Nation and Thai Visa, a few months ago you wrote about 26,000 death people by road accidents per year this is an average of 71 peoples a day now during the peak time Songkran is 99 in two days so less than the year average...can someone tell me what the true is.

Simple... Numbers are creatively calculated to show the evident brilliance of the 7-days Safety campaign 

[stereolab]

27 minutes ago, peperobi said:

I really do not understand The Nation and Thai Visa, a few months ago you wrote about 26,000 death people by road accidents per year this is an average of 71 peoples a day now during the peak time Songkran is 99 in two days so less than the year average...can someone tell me what the true is.

There is no truth here in Thailand, merely more confusing statistics, each piece of dis-information adds to the pot.  

[MaiDong]

19 minutes ago, mr_lob said:

Well i for one want to stick up for the boys in brown. I drove past a 'checkpoint' yesterday and there were 5 of the nation's finest doing a stellar job. 

One of them got to level 18 on angry birds and the other 4 were clearly chatting to their giks on fb / taking care of business

Same here, along the road from Chiang Mai to Mae Rim, there were cones partitioning the road, but All of the 6 or 7 'officers' were sitting inside their camouflage hideout, backs bent into 90° angles, tapping away on their screens... 

[ChrisY1]

Most reasonable, half intelligent people, would question what they are doing wrong when fatalities and injuries on the roads keep increasing.....and why are so many drunk drivers still driving after all the media and the so called police "blitzes"?

Not here in Thailand will failure ever be mentioned or accepted!

It's never the authorities doing...it's always something else......latest excuse is that the extra day holiday has been a cause......

Sad that the authorities do not seek genuine expert outside assistance in their road safety initiatives.

[JOC]

3 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Sirichan said that 32,592 of those cases involved motorcyclists. Officers have seized 835 motorcycles and total confiscated 356 motorcycle driving licences.

Confiscated 356 driving licenses out 32.592 cases.....

Sounds about right....about 1 % actually have a drivers license....

 

32.592 cases and only 835 m-bikes seized...

Does that mean that 31.757 bribed their way out....?

Even at only 200 baht it will add up to 6.351.400 bath......

Not a bad day in the office...

[RichardColeman]

50 minutes ago, peperobi said:

I really do not understand The Nation and Thai Visa, a few months ago you wrote about 26,000 death people by road accidents per year this is an average of 71 peoples a day now during the peak time Songkran is 99 in two days so less than the year average...can someone tell me what the true is.

In other words you are saying if the police got off their bottoms or phones and did their job - like in songkran - then the roads would be better all year ? I think you fail to take into consideration the boredom threshold of the Thai policeman - 5 or 6 days OK, a year, no way.

[stereolab]

5 minutes ago, JOC said:

Confiscated 356 driving licenses out 32.592 cases.....

Sounds about right....about 1 % actually have a drivers license....

 

32.592 cases and only 835 m-bikes seized...

Does that mean that 31.757 bribed their way out....?

Even at only 200 baht it will add up to 6.351.400 bath......

Not a bad day in the office...

That is some picture. It rather sums up Thailand, bags of cash, lying open to the winds and thieves, surrounded by plastic bags. the obligatory smartphone and a portly BIB who has let his mask slip.

[manhood]

Nothing is safe in this country! whatever you are use you always have to be aware to die!

And as long you not brainwash thais in a good way there is no ending of death rates on the road in Thailand.

Thais always want to be number one !

[poohy]

2 hours ago, dotpoom said:

This is tragic...too much so for "smart ass" remarks....Each and every one of these tragedies leave devastated families in their wake. RIP..to all the deceased.

If they were drunk and killed innocents yes or course RIP victims

 

Just drunks and killed themselves who cares!

[Surasak]

Every year they spout off about how they are going to cut the number of accidents, deaths and injuries, and every year it gets worse. Perhaps if they kept their mouths shut, things could get better?

[hansnl]

3 hours ago, colinneil said:

This cannot be correct, before the holiday government lackies were spouting off about 7% reduction this year.

They said that there were measures in place to make songkran safer.

 

Maybe the idiots on the road also heard about these measures and thought they could drink some extra and drive a little faster because of them?

[jak2002003]

52 minutes ago, mr_lob said:

Well i for one want to stick up for the boys in brown. I drove past a 'checkpoint' yesterday and there were 5 of the nation's finest doing a stellar job. 

One of them got to level 18 on angry birds and the other 4 were clearly chatting to their giks on fb / taking care of business

I passed one checkpoint yesterday afternoon and they were all sitting about around the table drinking bottles of whiskey... totally true!  

[marko kok prong]

I have stayed at home since the 11th,as the madness seemed to start then everyone arriving, so i am now on my 4th day in the house,and today is the big day is it not,2 more days and i may venture out. I expect there will be a spike today as many will be driving drunk.

[AccidentalTourist]

After 24 years in this country is still the same or even worst. But what you expect from a country where school kids are thriving motorbikes under the age of 10; even to school under the watchful eyes of the so skilled and educated teachers. 

[Chongalulu]

2 hours ago, darksidedog said:

60,000 drunk drivers in two days and 59,000 cases of reckless driving? That overtakes by a long way many countries annual totals. Truly disgraceful.

Truly predictable.

[Henryford]

3 hours ago, markaoffy said:

60,000 drunk drivers in 2 days, and that’s only the ones caught!! Ever need an example of how irresponsible and selfish people are !


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I bet 95% of all drivers on the road in the evening are over the limit.

[Cake Monster]

I knew that drink driving and dangerous driving here in Thailand was a major issue, but 60,000 in just 2 days ! ---- That were caught ( maybe 10% of the actual offenders )

 

Its time to start believing in God and start praying every time you go to the Supermarket in your car.

[Black arab]

Astounding figures, we were out yesterday morninig north east chaiyaphum area and not one check point or copper to be seen anywhere.

[Miss Pickle]

The Annual culling has began .Thailand will never sort this problem the Thais just don't care about dying .Crazy numbers and that's only the ones you are hearing about.

[Khun Paul]

I read in the Bangkok Post that the increased holiday time was also the cause of higher injuries and fatalities. BUT it was the same Government who gave them the extra day  and now they are complaining. Everyone who is NOT THAI know and appreciates what Thais are like , holiday means drinking and partying. That is why many expats I know stay behind locked gates , watching the mayhem, death and in juries from a safe vantage point and laugh at the idiotic comments emanating from Govt spokespersons.