348 die in Songkran road carnage

[Jonathan Fairfield]

348 die in Songkran road carnage

By The Nation

 

 

A total of 348 people were killed and 3,176 others wounded in 3,068 road accidents during the first six days of the “seven dangerous days” of Songkran, said the Road Safety Operations Centre (RSOC) on Wednesday.

Chiang Mai had the most accidents at 119 and Nakhon Si Thammarat had the most casualties at 126. Nakhon Ratchasima and Udon Thani shared the top spot for deaths with 15 each, Probation Department chief Prasarn Mahaleetrakul announced. 

 

Only five provinces, Trang, Phang Nga, Mae Hong Son, Sukhothai and Angthong, reported no Songkran road deaths.

 

On Tuesday alone, there were 367 crashes claiming 42 lives and injuring 381 others. Speeding was blamed for 30 per cent of accidents and drink driving for 28 per cent. 

 

On Tuesday, 65,375 officials and volunteers manning 2,040 checkpoints nationwide said they checked 1,048,847 vehicles, resulting in 239,295 motorists and motorcyclists being charged with traffic violations. 

Most cases involved riding motorbikes without wearing a helmet with 64,829 incidents and failing to present a driver's licences, 57,087 cases. 

 

Prasarn said the Thai courts had placed 8,642 alleged offenders in the probation system from April 11-16. She said 98 per cent or 8,481 of the cases involved drink driving followed by 150 cases of driving on drugs and 11 cases of reckless driving. 

 

The most drink drivers were arrested in Maha Sarakham (596), Bangkok (480) and Nakhon Phanom (440), he added.

 

In a separate press conference, National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) spokeswoman Col Sirichan Ngathong said that army, police and administrators had confiscated 6,435 vehicles (4,752 motorbikes and 1,683 cars and trucks) and 2,291 driving licences from drink drivers during April 11-16. Throughout this period, officers found 177,134 motorcyclists and 146,017 motorists violated traffic laws and prosecuted 131,674 motorcyclists and 91,499 motorists, she added.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30367833

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2019-04-17

[Maverell]

Ok, thats on the roads but I wonder how many deaths and injuries due to violence?

[cyril sneer]

6 minutes ago, Maverell said:

Ok, thats on the roads but I wonder how many deaths and injuries due to violence?

I think the article is about roads

[Viggo McQuaid]

Strange that these figures are published. Thailand is such a squared away country, best in the world. I would imagine most accidents are caused by Thais thinking about farangs than loosing control. I.e Farang no good is to blame! 

[holy cow cm]

20 minutes ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

In a separate press conference, National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) spokeswoman Col Sirichan Ngathong said that army, police and administrators had confiscated 6,435 vehicles (4,752 motorbikes and 1,683 cars and trucks) and 2,291 driving licences from drink drivers during April 11-16.

The NCPO army should not have anything to do with this and that is where Thai people need to draw the line and separate Military and domestic services. 

 

 

 

[wgdanson]

30% speeding, 28% drunk....what were the causes of the other 42% anyone please?

[rebo]

46 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

what were the causes of the other 42% anyone please?

Break failure and evil spirits ...

[wisperone]

This is like reading a sports recap. Very strange.

[trainman34014]

1 hour ago, wgdanson said:

30% speeding, 28% drunk....what were the causes of the other 42% anyone please?

Numpty driving !

[RotBenz8888]

2 hours ago, wgdanson said:

30% speeding, 28% drunk....what were the causes of the other 42% anyone please?

1 hour ago, rebo said:

Break failure and evil spirits ...

 

=Drugs, mental illness, low IQ or all three of them.

[Pilotman]

2 minutes ago, RotBenz8888 said:

=Drugs, mental illness, low IQ or all three of them.

drink, sleeping, lack of ability to drive/think/judge anything/look ahead, turn/drive in a straight line/see anything past 20 feet in front of the car/look in the mirrors;  the possible list is almost endless. 

[RotBenz8888]

5 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

drink, sleeping, lack of ability to drive/think/judge anything/look ahead, turn/drive in a straight line/see anything past 20 feet in front of the car/look in the mirrors;  the possible list is almost endless. 

Ultimately, it all boils down to one thing: stupidity.

[Pilotman]

40 minutes ago, RotBenz8888 said:

Ultimately, it all boils down to one thing: stupidity.

Quoting National stereotypes is always a difficult, sensitive and  contentious area, but I actually think that it is a National trait that Thais just don't have any well developed sense of spacial awareness.  Couple that with a general lack of interest in doing anything to a particularly high standard, a lack of personal responsibility for their actions and poor education in almost every aspect of daily living and you have the basis for what we see on the roads. 

[brewsterbudgen]

Ok, thats on the roads but I wonder how many deaths and injuries due to violence?

Why? Do you know something we don't?

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[samsensam]

 

the average seven day death toll on thai roads is 462, so 348 deaths on the seven songkran days makes the holiday a comparatively safe time to travel. not that the figures aren't horrific.

[RotBenz8888]

28 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

Quoting National stereotypes is always a difficult, sensitive and  contentious area, but I actually think that it is a National trait that Thais just don't have any well developed sense of spacial awareness.  Couple that with a general lack of interest in doing anything to a particularly high standard, a lack of personal responsibility for their actions and poor education in almost every aspect of daily living and you have the basis for what we see on the roads. 

And with all the factors you've mentioned, it's hard to see how there's gonna be any change. Sad but true.

[ukrules]

How many people die over any given 7 day period on average throughout the year?

[poohy]

And what does this prove

Simply you cant fix stupid!

 

Generalization, well  sure theres some clever ones, but   the vast (male) majority  not a chance  !!! an old Dudley saying if their brains were dynamite it wouldn't blow the wax out of their ears

[stanleycoin]

8 hours ago, Pilotman said:

Quoting National stereotypes is always a difficult, sensitive and  contentious area, but I actually think that it is a National trait that Thais just don't have any well developed sense of spacial awareness.  Couple that with a general lack of interest in doing anything to a particularly high standard, a lack of personal responsibility for their actions and poor education in almost every aspect of daily living and you have the basis for what we see on the roads. 

Yes, Yes.

But what about the negative things. 

[ChipButty]

12 hours ago, wgdanson said:

30% speeding, 28% drunk....what were the causes of the other 42% anyone please?

Farang

[ChipButty]

3 hours ago, ukrules said:

How many people die over any given 7 day period on average throughout the year?

A lot

[graemeaylward]

 
the average seven day death toll on thai roads is 462, so 348 deaths on the seven songkran days makes the holiday a comparatively safe time to travel. not that the figures aren't horrific.

But this figure is only for the first 6 days, so there is a day left to achieve target!


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[Pattaya28]

12 hours ago, wgdanson said:

30% speeding, 28% drunk....what were the causes of the other 42% anyone please?

other 42% both

[inThailand]

Does anyone believe these numbers? 1M vehicles checked. I have never seen the tent campers get out of their chair. 

[lvr181]

11 hours ago, Pilotman said:

drink, sleeping, lack of ability to drive/think/judge anything/look ahead, turn/drive in a straight line/see anything past 20 feet in front of the car/look in the mirrors;  the possible list is almost endless. 

AKA simply, BRAIN FAILURE! ????

[Tradewind777]

14 hours ago, Viggo McQuaid said:

Strange that these figures are published. Thailand is such a squared away country, best in the world. I would imagine most accidents are caused by Thais thinking about farangs than loosing control. I.e Farang no good is to blame! 

Yes, the farang must always be blamed because “if he had not come to Thailand there would have been no accident”. So logical, funny I never thought of that before!

[wgdanson]

5 hours ago, ukrules said:

How many people die over any given 7 day period on average throughout the year?

66 x 7 = 462

[AlQaholic]

I'm a little bit confused. The article says that 'On Tuesday alone, there were 367 crashes claiming 42 lives and injuring 381 others. Speeding was blamed for 30 per cent of accidents and drink driving for 28 per cent.'. Then the article says that 98% of arrests were drink driving arrests. This is statistical nonsense. The arrests should be consistent with the number of accidents. There were no arrests at all for speeding.

The Changwats that reported no casualties at all are a miracle.

Edited April 18, 2019 by AlQaholic

[Zack61]

14 hours ago, holy cow cm said:

The NCPO army should not have anything to do with this and that is where Thai people need to draw the line and separate Military and domestic services. 

 

 

 

If the domestic services were at all interested. 

[blazes]

She said 98 per cent or 8,481 of the cases involved drink driving followed by 150 cases of driving on drugs and 11 cases of reckless driving. 

 

Only 11 cases of reckless driving?????  in the whole of Thailand????

Edited April 18, 2019 by blazes