New Year road stats: Drink drivers have not learned any lessons

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New Year road stats: Drink drivers have not learned any lessons

 

 

Naew Na reported that drunks continued to drive on Thailand's roads. 

 

Few have learned the lesson of being taken to the morgue or made to do community service with accident victims in hospitals. 

 

Department of Probation chief Witthawan Sunthonkhajit presented the statistics for cases dealt with by his department on Friday and Saturday. 

 

Saturday showed a dramatic improvement but Naew Na made no attempt to explain why there were so few cases compared to the previous day, notes Thaivisa. 

 

In total over the two days the courts handled 707 cases - around 80% of these were drink driving, 17% driving while under the influence of drugs and one case for racing on the highway and ten for negligence. 

 

The department of probation are still taking drunk drivers to the morgue to show them the error of their ways and they are also required to do community service at hospitals. 

 

But people have not learned their lesson, said Naew Na. 

 

Source: Naew Na

 

 

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[Thaiwrath]

3 minutes ago, webfact said:

also required to do community service at hospitals

Not the best deterrent for someone who drink drives, risking the lives of innocent people.

[ezzra]

They haven't learned nothing in the last 30 odd years that i have been here, why should they start now? lives have very little values in this country, and until people will start treasure and cherish their lives as worth living, maybe, just maybe things will change but until then, don't hold your breath...

[seajae]

get the police out there driving(in proper police cars not the heaps of junk pick ups) and pulling them over, how in the hell do they expect to stop all the carnage when the police refuse to do their jobs, this is why the road deaths are lower in the west, the police actually do what they are paid for. Set up breathalyzer stations/buses along the roads to test drivers, at least make an effort to get the drunks off the road instead of simply talking about it

[Puchaiyank]

"Drink Drivers"...always makes me smile...☺

[Saint Nick]

And what lesson, pray tell, are they to learn?

No one ever teaches them any lesson!

It's "the same procedure as every year"!

 

[klauskunkel]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

New Year road stats: Drink drivers have not learned any lessons

How can they? They're drunk!

[legend49]

But people have not learned their lesson, said Naew Na. 

 

They need a brain first before they can learn any lesson.

[Saint Nick]

3 hours ago, Puchaiyank said:

"Drink Drivers"...always makes me smile...☺

More like laugh out loud!

[losername]

Bottom line:  The only safe driving limit is .00%.  https://www.verywellmind.com/why-you-should-never-drink-and-drive-67117#is-there-a-safe-bac-limit

[RotBenz8888]

4 minutes ago, losername said:

Bottom line:  The only safe driving limit is .00%.  https://www.verywellmind.com/why-you-should-never-drink-and-drive-67117#is-there-a-safe-bac-limit

The only safe driving limit is 0% Thais on the roads.

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Naew Na reported that drunks continued to drive on Thailand's roads.

With no effective deterrent why would they stop.

 

[GeorgeCross]

Now where my truck??!

 

 

[ParkerN]

5 hours ago, seajae said:

get the police out there driving(in proper police cars not the heaps of junk pick ups) and pulling them over, how in the hell do they expect to stop all the carnage when the police refuse to do their jobs, this is why the road deaths are lower in the west, the police actually do what they are paid for. Set up breathalyzer stations/buses along the roads to test drivers, at least make an effort to get the drunks off the road instead of simply talking about it

The problem in Thailand (well, one of the many problems), is that the police are Thais and Thais love to be admired and loved. Booking someone (and I don't mean taking 100 baht not to book them), is not a good way to be loved and admired by Thais, so the police don't.

 

Short of mass layoffs and recruiting a fresh Police Dept with psychologically-screened officers, I just don't see the situation improving. Corruption requires a complete replacement of all senior officers. Both issues must be addressed, but neither will be, no matter what Prayuth says, and nobody who knows Prayuth thinks he has the balls to tackle corruption, especially since he is worth 100+ million and doesn't want to explain how he got it.

 

Bottom line? Thais don't actually care, and one of the reasons why is that many, perhaps most Thais, hope to get corruption money at some stage and would quite like the trough to still be there when they can. Every single Thai I've ever met has a 'flexible' approach to honesty. Personally I wouldn't trust any of them; they're all at it now, or want to be at it one day. It's a typically low IQ, 3rd-world problem, nothing to get all upset about, it is what it is, and Thais are ultimately responsible for what it is.

 

As foreigners and guests in the country, we must get used to the following:

 

1. Thais feel inferior to us and it has everything to do with the colour of our skin and our relative affluence, both of which they covet.

2. Thais think Thais always know best and never learned how to get educated or how to get good advice. They only learned about greng-jai and IOU's.

3. Thais are dishonest and will steal the gold out of our teeth if they get the chance. It's a cultural issue and will take 2 generations to change.

 

Only then will we have finally taken off the rose-coloured spectacles and be able to see things as they are rather than as we think they ought to be. No second chances.

[30la]

What should they have learned? Until now you are always and only talking about saying things with an absolute lack of meaning!
Thai is a spoiled child and if you don't change the way of education it will stay forever!
Wake up and stop whining, send your thousands of policemen to the street to do their job!

[Peterphuket]

3 hours ago, Saint Nick said:

And what lesson, pray tell, are they to learn?

No one ever teaches them any lesson!

It's "the same procedure as every year"!

 

After 3 months we will get the same story (songkran)

[Khun Paul]

We all know and see International stats show Thailand's education is poor, and in all honesty most Thais feel affronted and downright angry when they get told they are doing something wrong, plus they should get the Gold Medal for sloping shoulders, NEVER EVER THEIR FAULT . Even have had the current PM stating Thais do not do this or that.

Well they die because of Inexperience ( lack of training ...down to the Government )

They die because of lack of enforcement .....…(.RTP useless...down to the Government )

Sheer ignorance and stupidity, and although one would like to put that at the Governments door, people can read and listen but refuse to do so , so in some ways they get what they deserve a quick death or a painful existence because of their injuries 

 

 

Years of living here, the old saying, You can take a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink, springs to mind , you can tell them, show thgem, even make themlearn it, ,but to actually get them to do it , I hear Pigs might fly before that happens.  

[Cake Monster]

6 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

Not the best deterrent for someone who drink drives, risking the lives of innocent people.

It could be if you had to Spoon feed some guy with only half a Face and then do the Bed Pan duty

[Bangkok Barry]

6 hours ago, seajae said:

the police actually do what they are paid for.

 

The police in Thailand get paid whether they work or not, so they decide it's easier to not. Quite clever, really. My brother-in-law is a policeman and I asked my wife what he actually does. She had no idea.

[Chazar]

If they dont value their  own  life there is  no  hope, first offence execute  them and save time

[Gillyflower]

If you are in the morgue, you can't learn anything, can you?  The article is a bit stupid.

[RichardColeman]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

The department of probation are still taking drunk drivers to the morgue to show them the error of their ways

Enough to make you wanna beer

[Scott Tracy]

Honestly, I don't care if Thais learn lessons or not. I don't care if you all blame the Government or the Thais themselves. As long as no one hurts me and mine, Darwinism can continue on its merry way.

 

Continuously griping and moaning and stating what should be done is not helpful, you'll just get more and more frustrated. Chill out, let them kill each other and blame everyone but themselves.

[Artisi]

There should be 4-5 day holidays every week for a couple of years, this should reduce the gene pool of stupidity to a acceptable level. 

[ubon farang]

18 hours ago, ezzra said:

They haven't learned nothing in the last 30 odd years that i have been here, why should they start now? lives have very little values in this country, and until people will start treasure and cherish their lives as worth living, maybe, just maybe things will change but until then, don't hold your breath...

Agree what u said. Life is cheap here and by the looks of it they really think its fun dying Yesterday I was walking A motorbike came past me with a passenger on board He was well over the speed limit No helmets and it gets better..He had the bike up on one wheel My whole body started shaking at that site  My god life is cheap alright