Songkran Death Toll Surges To 418

[kannot]

Speeding........nonsense, Inappropriate speed yes, swerving in and out driving to close and generally NOT GIVING A SHIT about anyone else caused this, coming soon  severe speed  limits enforced by camera......welcome to "The West" many roads now are so painfully  slow in their limits here anyway, take Phetkasem road near Hua  Hin 90kph max  ridiculously slow for a straight wide road.

Moronic drivers  hogging the outside lane and even the lorries now doing it along with those boom boom buses and locally the pineapple pick ups overloaded to delirium and they WILL not  move over even on an empty road.

To blame speed per se is just wrong.

[anon467848]

Only 26 deaths on the final day of the 7 deadly days. Hard to believe only 26, as there would be a lot of people travelling back home so the traffic volume would be very high. No doubt they were under pressure not to report the real number, as heads would roll...

 

So 4 provinces didn't have any fatalities during Songkran, utter b?llshit, did everybody in those 4 provinces go everywhere by foot, buffalo or horse n cart?

[essox essox]

5 hours ago, cyril sneer said:

Interested to know the causes of the other 50%, was it simply just Thai driving?

of course it was....what else can it be.....

[essox essox]

some days ago did not the big bosses want to INCREASE the speed limits??

 

[essox essox]

42 minutes ago, kannot said:

Speeding........nonsense, Inappropriate speed yes, swerving in and out driving to close and generally NOT GIVING A SHIT about anyone else caused this, coming soon  severe speed  limits enforced by camera......welcome to "The West" many roads now are so painfully  slow in their limits here anyway, take Phetkasem road near Hua  Hin 90kph max  ridiculously slow for a straight wide road.

Moronic drivers  hogging the outside lane and even the lorries now doing it along with those boom boom buses and locally the pineapple pick ups overloaded to delirium and they WILL not  move over even on an empty road.

To blame speed per se is just wrong.

bad driving is to blame and Thai drivers unable to adhere to rules of the road

[rtco]

5 hours ago, BigBadGeordie said:

"BANGKOK, 18th April 2018 (NNT) – The Prime Minister, Gen. Prayut Chan-o-cha, thanked all sides, including volunteers, for ensuring public safety during this year's Songkran festival."

 

Words fail me.

You beat me to it ... the guy is a dimwit and lives in cloud cuckoo land.

[janclaes47]

5 hours ago, darksidedog said:

Clearly the 7 day safety campaign has to be seen as an absolute failure.

 

How about extending that statement to about everything this government has ever claimed?

[Media1]

Have we ordered the ankle brackets. Please make sure there not copies charged at triple the value ok generals.

Edited April 18, 2018 by Media1

[Media1]

5 hours ago, doctormann said:

Unfortunately, the fat lady hasn't sung yet.

 

We still have today and tomorrow as Songkran days in Pattaya and Sattahip doesn't celebrate until Friday.  All those that have traveled here from other provinces still have to get home - and rest assured that most of them will not be in any fit state to drive.  Expect more deaths and injuries - that may not even be  added to the official figures because, of course, the 'seven dangerous days' are over!

 

yes plenty of boxes on back order

[Media1]

39 minutes ago, merlin2002 said:

Only 26 deaths on the final day of the 7 deadly days. Hard to believe only 26, as there would be a lot of people travelling back home so the traffic volume would be very high. No doubt they were under pressure not to report the real number, as heads would roll...

 

So 4 provinces didn't have any fatalities during Songkran, utter b?llshit, did everybody in those 4 provinces go everywhere by foot, buffalo or horse n cart?

obviously the report is fake it's probably double. 

[metisdead]

A posting containing a link to a site about Accident Statistics for Songkran 2016 has been removed as this is the year 2018.

 

Another post about road deaths in Sweden has been removed as well as the replies. 

[lvr181]

6 hours ago, BigBadGeordie said:

"BANGKOK, 18th April 2018 (NNT) – The Prime Minister, Gen. Prayut Chan-o-cha, thanked all sides, including volunteers, for ensuring public safety during this year's Songkran festival."

 

Words fail me.

Don't let words fail you  What was said was only a joke by the big cheese. I mean, what else could he say to cover up the incompetence of the authorities? Even if the daily rate had decreased slightly, a battle won is not a war won, anymore than 'One Swallow does not a Summer make' (Aristotle). 

 

[Moti24]

6 hours ago, cyril sneer said:

I like your dog

That's his Mia Noi, not his dog!

[mok199]

.forget the motorways, the shamless lawlessness is too ingrained in this society and will never change and a waste of resources trying to enforce,as the police don't care and thais certainly do not care either,concentrate on inner city speeding , one way wrong ways, and disrespect for perdestrians and keeping our beaches clean...

Edited April 18, 2018 by mok199
speliings

[Jonmarleesco]

'The interior minister added that the law alone cannot solve fatal road accidents and more effort needs to be put on raising public awareness about safe driving.'

 

Then get off your high horse and do it. Only aim to get every single driver up to an acceptable standard - not the Thai variant - get the wrecks (vehicles and drivers) off the road, test every vehicle at three-years old and yearly thereafter, introduce penalties that actually do discourage ignorance of safe driving. 

 

And compel the RTP to enforce the law.

 

The last will be the challenge.

 

[TheLobster]

There is no way there only 418 deaths. End of.....

[HHTel]

7 hours ago, peperobi said:

They still do it, the real amount will be never told to the public. Some people died even few weeks after the accident.

They note at the bottom of the stats that the previous day's figures may not be up to date as people dying following the accidents are not known at the time.  It is evidenced by the numbers from the 1st day and following are adjusted.

 

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* Please note, all deaths are recorded regardless of whether it happened at the scene of the accident or not. If someone died a few days later in hospital, they are added to the tally.

 It may be true for the rest of the year, but certainly not in this case.

[Bob1million]

Whats this a game show, same thing year after year
Ya just know that its going to be chaos again, so i just dont get it really . Fruitless effort all round . Nothing else to say.

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[Jip99]

31 minutes ago, Bob1million said:

Whats this a game show, same thing year after year
Ya just know that its going to be chaos again, so i just dont get it really . Fruitless effort all round . Nothing else to say.

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It is even more pointless when you consider that it is reported that Thailand ?? has 24,237 Road deaths a year.......66 a day on average..

[Jip99]

31 minutes ago, Bob1million said:

Whats this a game show, same thing year after year
Ya just know that its going to be chaos again, so i just dont get it really . Fruitless effort all round . Nothing else to say.

Sent from my SM-G900I using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app
 

 

 

It is even more pointless when you consider that it is reported that Thailand ?? has 24,237 Road deaths a year.......66 a day on average..

[lvr181]

7 hours ago, Jonmarleesco said:

The last will be the challenge.

No challenge! Just not going to happen. 

[peperobi]

7 hours ago, HHTel said:

They note at the bottom of the stats that the previous day's figures may not be up to date as people dying following the accidents are not known at the time.  It is evidenced by the numbers from the 1st day and following are adjusted.

 

 It may be true for the rest of the year, but certainly not in this case.

So probably we will get in few days/weeks a final report????

[HHTel]

The first few days have been updated on a daily basis.

[MaxYakov]

20 hours ago, cyril sneer said:

Interested to know the causes of the other 50%, was it simply just Thai driving?

And what percentage of "the other 50%" was "smartphone zombieism" as it is very common just everywhere else in Thailand? Or motor vehicles in need of psychotherapy "losing control? Or just straightforward, routine "bad karma".

Edited April 19, 2018 by MaxYakov