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Total six dead in Phuket during Seven Days of Danger New Year 2019


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Total six dead in Phuket during Seven Days of Danger New Year 2019

By The Phuket News

 

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Rescue workers attend to a man injured on Thepkrasattri Rd during the Seven Days of Danger road-safety campaign for New Year 2019. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET: Phuket has concluded the Seven Days of Danger road-safety campaign for New Year 2019 with six dead and 53 injured in 55 accidents reported during the holiday week from last Thursday (Dec 27) through yesterday (Jan 2).

 

The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM-Phuket) reported this morning (Dec 3) that the the 24-hour period for Jan 2, Day 7 of the campaign, saw five people injured in four accidents, with no deaths.

 

The DDPM noted that two of the accidents were single-vehicle incidents, with another two involving motorbike riders not wearing helmets, and one accident involved a drunk driver.


Read more at https://www.thephuketnews.com/total-six-dead-in-phuket-during-seven-days-of-danger-new-year-2019-69871.php#XkyDVBhBDyLg10eh.99 

 
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I wonder how many of the 53 injured have catastrophic injuries.

 

The news mainly covers fatal road accidents, but so many victims here have life changing injuries. 

 

Add the seriously injured victims to the road death statistics, and the statistics for Phuket are shocking.  

 

                                              "Tuk-Tuk. Tuk-Tuk" 

 

 

Edited by NamKangMan

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