2 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

So far its only been a 2 day holiday has it not?

yes but some highly educated official  (uneducated (deleted)) thinks those two days are longer than any other two days 

go figure

 

24 + 24 = 48 + 20 = 2 longer days 

Why celebrate the Thai New Year of Songkran over a period of 10 days or so ???? --- me thinks commercialism and greed are the answer to that question.

 

Its easy to stop a lot of the carnage on the roads by just celebrating the New Year ON ONE DAY ONLY as the rest of the World does on January 1st for their New Year.

 

For sure this would prevent the Thais racing all over the Country to kill each other every day on the roads

1 hour ago, Lemonltr said:

Whilst it's clear that a lot of car drivers drive whilst drunk the main culprits are motorcyclists, therefore the 75% death rate.

not sure I would class them all as culprits - they are definitely victims

Can also blame the current "return to Thainess" mentality as much as anything. The dinosaur caveman campaign equates to more me-first invincible poorly-educated mai pen rai thoughtlessness. Then add to that widespread phone addiction, reduced attention span and spacial awareness. Most deadly roads on earth? Add more holidays to spread it around. 

The juvenile and childish excuses which are sometimes thrown out there by those in positions of power are sometimes truly astonishing, while at the same time highly enlightening as they do little more than highlight the true mentality of those in power making these announcements.... 

Surprised they haven't blamed the wet roads due to Songkran activity OR the old chestnut ..." Brake failure " .

There is only one reason and that is bad driving 

Saw this coming when it was announced. They are really struggling lately to keep the truth coming out in the press. We will see a massive increase in strategies to change accounting techniques of these and other statistics of interest for all categories of official numbers. Let's see what comes next...Thainess! Conmen of the southeast Asian territories!!

Edited April 14, 20188 yr by jonstarjon
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Saw this coming when it was announced. They are really struggling lately to keep the truth coming out in the press. We will see a massive increase in strategies to change accounting techniques of these and other statistics of interest for all categories of official numbers. Let's see what comes next...Thainess! Conmen of the southeast Asian territories!!

The government will announce a reduction in the number hours in the day, in order to reduce the number of deaths reported.


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7 hours ago, HiSoLowSoNoSo said:

Maybe they should increase the speed on the highways as was suggested last week, than all the Thais reach their provinces faster and less accidents happens.......

No there would be more dead and less investigation required, would also help to kill the gene pool of stupid drivers ,which seems as if it is getting bigger...sadly 

 

9 hours ago, rooster59 said:

EXTENDED celebrations for the Songkran Festival have been blamed for an increase in road accidents involving drunk driving, however the Interior Ministry has assured that the country’s roads will be safer this year due to more traffic checkpoints and strict law enforcement.

Why don't they just stop spouting this shit and do something about it!  It's like a ****in long-playing record!

Edited April 14, 20188 yr by Moti24

1 hour ago, Khun Paul said:

No there would be more dead and less investigation required, would also help to kill the gene pool of stupid drivers ,which seems as if it is getting bigger...sadly 

 

Hope that you understod the sarcasm in my post, not sure if you could kill the gene pole of stupid Thai drivers fast enough. 

I am not even going to bother. 

25 minutes ago, Blackheart1916 said:

I am not even going to bother. 

 

erm.... but you did.... 

Extended? Two of the songkran days fall on a weekend this years which makes it shorter than usual

When it's 3 days + connecting weekend then many people bridge the remaining 2 days to make a total of 9 days off.

15 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Longer holidays blamed for more road accidents

Oh, me silly bugger, me and I thought accidents are caused rather by stoned or unskilled drivers and lack of moral

Oh it doesn't take an Academic professor to come to the conclusion that the longer you party and consume alcohol the more chance there is of an incident happening.
But thats no the point in the big Scheme of things.
Look at prevention first and heavy consequences and penalties. Gee they will never wake only walk around with blinkers on, or off. You dead set could never make this stuff up, You wanna hope that a Major occurrence never happens, god help us then.

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9 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

erm.... but you did.... 

I beg to differ. 

I didn't think we had had those extra days yet!

 

I agree that the extra days may produce a greater Songkran total but we ain't done yet.... the heavily hungover-still driunk drive back home is yet to come.