Road carnage: One in ten deaths in Chiang Mai are foreigners; injuries high too

[rooster59]

Road carnage: One in ten deaths in Chiang Mai are foreigners; injuries high too

 

Image: Chiang Mai News

 

Statistics for death and injury on the roads in Chiang Mai have revealed that more than one in ten deaths since the start of the year have been foreigners. 

 

And more than 1,000 foreigners have been injured in the province since January 1st.

 

The stats also show that the overwhelming majority of the dead and injured were on motorcycles. 

 

Chiang Mai News said the figures came from M.I.S. an organization concerned with road safety. 

 

In the 25 districts of Chiang Mai province from January 1st to 16th November 2018 there were 13,051 accidents resulting in 246 deaths and 14,465 injuries. 

 

Of these 25 deaths were foreigners and 1,100 of the injured were foreigners. 

 

Some 236 of the deaths were motorcyclists and injured bikers also made up a great majority of the victims - 14,211. 

 

The news media said that in the 21,107 sq km that make up Chiang Mai province there are almost 2 million vehicles registered. 

 

Muang district of Chiang Mai represented the worst for death and injury this year. In 5,401 accidents 50 had died and 6,057 have been injured. This is followed by Sansai with 1,310 accident, 29 dead and 1,418 injured.

 

Of the dead in Muang district 13 were women and 37 men. 

 

Nine deaths and 1,099 injuries were reported in Chang Pheuak and five deaths and 886 injuries in Suthep.

 

Most deaths were in the age range of 16-25 and occurred between 6 pm and 10 pm. 

 

Some 878,974 vehicles have been registered in the province in the last ten years representing an average of 7,325 per month and 241 per day. 

 

Chiang Mai News stated of particular worry was that most death and injury occurred in November and December in 2016 and 2017. 

 

Source: Chiang Mai News

 

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2018-11-17

[KiChakayan]

Don't ride a motorbike, get yourself a car.

Avoid driving a night.

Get an A1 insurance since you are going to hit a motorbike sooner or later.

Make sure your missus drives when you are drunk.

Edited November 17, 2018 by KiChakayan

[1337markus]

Chiang Mai News stated of particular worry was that most death and injury occurred in November and December in 2016 and 2017. 

 

No need to worry those dates have passed now. If they are using some statistics let us have a broad picture? If Chiang Mai is the second biggest city of Thailand, how many farang is there. Must allow for tourist versus resident. Now where does the 1000 fit into those 2 categories, now compare with say Pattaya are the stats equal?.

 

Most deaths were in the age range of 16-25 and occurred between 6 pm and 10 pm. 

 

So the headline should focus on the above age group and demographics of tourist versus resident. Then what regions/countries did the fatalities come from???

Guessing, this period is suppose to be high season for tourists; Summary, there are many young tourists of unknown countries, and unknown licence status driving unsafe at night.

Pretty crap reporting, as Trump would say FAKE NEWS.

 

[Briggsy]

No shortage of Burmese in Chiang Mai province.

[connda]

If you live thought your first year or your first 3 bike accidents here in Thailand, by that time you'll probably have figured out that driving here is nothing like driving in the West and if you don't compensate for the insanity of Thai drivers, you're own life is in the line.

[sweatalot]

Would be interesting to know who caused those letal accidents.

The victims or some Thai driver?

[tonboy]

1 hour ago, sweatalot said:

Would be interesting to know who caused those letal accidents.

The victims or some Thai driver?

Not driving like the Thai (who always seems to have a buddha to protect them), be carefull and anticipate during driving my car, did protect me from having a accident at least daily. Many, many accidents can be avoided in that way. If you see how many tourists, expats and digital nomads behave in traffic on their motorbike, no wonder 1 in 10 is a foreigner

 

 

[zyphodb]

2 hours ago, sweatalot said:

Would be interesting to know who caused those letal accidents.

The victims or some Thai driver?

Nether, brake failure of course.....

[mok199]

Sh*t happens...

[BritManToo]

7 hours ago, rooster59 said:

And more than 1,000 foreigners have been injured in the province since January 1st.

I'm thinking Chinese.

If it were white folk the headlines would have 'Farang' somewhere in it.

[soistalker]

Sack the entire police force. Bring in outside police consultants to build and make a real police academy that teaches them the law and not how to get tea money.

Require every police officer to do ACTUAL POLICE WORK. 

Increase fines for traffic violations exponentially. Get a few vehicular manslaughter cases up in the media and get courts to hand down long jail sentences for running over people because the drivers were retards and disregarding traffic laws and basic human mores.

[ChakaKhan]

Been riding Mbikes over 30 yrs....Been hit by thais 5x in CM....within 10 yrs....shattered knee--broken toes

[happy chappie]

3 hours ago, soistalker said:

Sack the entire police force. Bring in outside police consultants to build and make a real police academy that teaches them the law and not how to get tea money.

Require every police officer to do ACTUAL POLICE WORK. 

Increase fines for traffic violations exponentially. Get a few vehicular manslaughter cases up in the media and get courts to hand down long jail sentences for running over people because the drivers were retards and disregarding traffic laws and basic human mores.

Your a bit of a dreamer son.the only thing the authorities would like to change is the figures that only 10% of Thais die in road accidents.

[masuk]

19 hours ago, KiChakayan said:

Don't ride a motorbike, get yourself a car.

Avoid driving a night.

Get an A1 insurance since you are going to hit a motorbike sooner or later.

Make sure your missus drives when you are drunk.

Chiang Mai motor cyclists do not use helmets after sunset.

So it seems it's not safety they're concerned about, but getting fined.

Also, a great many m/bikes have no rear lights. 

Finally - window tinting is so dark, drivers can't see a thing at night.

It's all very well having laws for such things, but another if they're never enforced.

[MaxYakov]

Motor vehicles and the roads are making good homicide/suicide implements. Split the roads into separate lane sets by weight class and vehicle type (including separate lane sets for pedestrians and bicycles) with 4 meter tall walls separating the lane sets. The roads would be only maybe be 100 meters wide or so and cost maybe only 5-10 times the cost of existing roads. 

[cmsally]

If they are really serious about improvements then remove the useless inspection points which only take money and are not interested in road safety. A strict license policy for anyone renting a bike with insurance provided.  Until the fundamental policy becomes interest in tourist safety rather than extractions from the pockets nothing is going to change.

Also the continual scenario of checkpoints for motorbikes on some of the most touristed roads creates a bad impression for tourism. Not only for those being stopped, it doesn't look good to anyone.

[PatOngo]

7 hours ago, soistalker said:

Sack the entire police force. Bring in outside police consultants to build and make a real police academy that teaches them the law and not how to get tea money.

Require every police officer to do ACTUAL POLICE WORK. 

Increase fines for traffic violations exponentially. Get a few vehicular manslaughter cases up in the media and get courts to hand down long jail sentences for running over people because the drivers were retards and disregarding traffic laws and basic human mores.

I love a bit of satire too! 

[Brigand]

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...M.I.S. an organization concerned with road safety.

Looking on the positive side, at least someone is. Been driving here for 16 years now and I too have pretty much given up driving once it gets dark unless for some outlandish reason like coming back from the airport due to flight time. It's bad enough during the day, but once all the morons have been released from their daytime slavery and the jobless finally haul their good-for-nothing backsides out of bed/accommodation, pile down the market for their food in plastic bags, charge around afterwards drinking/drug taking and then off to the karaoke bar on their often light lacking substandard motorcycles, then it's easy to see why 6-10 pm is carnage time.

[DJ54]

Too many drivers in tunnel vision only thinking about themselves 

in reality they should focus on being alert and look out for possible dangers.

 

Forget about me first if you arrive your destination 5-10 minutes later think of it as a stress reliever...

[canthai55]

8 hours ago, cmsally said:

 Until the fundamental policy becomes interest in tourist safety rather than extractions from the pockets nothing is going to change.

Why should you rely on the Gov't to ensure your safety while riding a bike or driving a car ?

Protect yourself.

I hazard that most of the stats were foreigners with no license, no experience, impaired ...

Darwin having his way.

[brianthainess]

On 11/18/2018 at 7:23 AM, cmsally said:

If they are really serious about improvements then remove the useless inspection points which only take money and are not interested in road safety. A strict license policy for anyone renting a bike with insurance provided.  Until the fundamental policy becomes interest in tourist safety rather than extractions from the pockets nothing is going to change.

Also the continual scenario of checkpoints for motorbikes on some of the most touristed roads creates a bad impression for tourism. Not only for those being stopped, it doesn't look good to anyone.

While i agree with you to a point,tourists are not mentioned in this story,

[brianthainess]

On 11/18/2018 at 9:24 AM, Brigand said:

Looking on the positive side, at least someone is. Been driving here for 16 years now and I too have pretty much given up driving once it gets dark unless for some outlandish reason like coming back from the airport due to flight time. It's bad enough during the day, but once all the morons have been released from their daytime slavery and the jobless finally haul their good-for-nothing backsides out of bed/accommodation, pile down the market for their food in plastic bags, charge around afterwards drinking/drug taking and then off to the karaoke bar on their often light lacking substandard motorcycles, then it's easy to see why 6-10 pm is carnage time.

You hit the nail on the head.

[gk10002000]

Complete lack of driving education, sense of responsibility.  It is like Borat the comedian said "like giving a loaded gun to a monkey"

[Vacuum]

On 11/17/2018 at 7:06 AM, Briggsy said:

No shortage of Burmese in Chiang Mai province.

Few of them are driving.

[gk10002000]

so 1 in 10 deaths are foreigners.  Can't quite tell what the population percentage of foreigners to nationals is.