Officials eye stores selling alcohol to those under-age in bid to reduce drink driving

[Sydebolle]

Don't get me wrong but those underaged for drinking are normally also underage for driving. 

Get drunk drivers off the road, impound the vehicle on the spot; to be released earliest 48 hours later against a fine of Baht 10K and make sure the culprits walk two kilometres to the next bus stop. Trust me; wonders will happen and Thailand's horrific death toll will nosedive immediately! 

[lamyai3]

They're producing some additional signs for the new year road safety campaign - Underage drunks please drive slowly. 

[toofarnorth]

22 hours ago, anterian said:

As many don't have licences punishing them by suspending their licence will not work and those who did get a licence suspended would simply drive without one.

 

Similar thought , stop selling alcohol to underage drivers , I mean what / if but ....Good Lord.

[NoshowJones]

"Officials eye stores selling alcohol to those under-age in bid to reduce 

drink driving."

The usual 24 hour crackdown. 

[NoshowJones]

5 hours ago, wealthychef said:

Oh I just thought of a solution!  Thailand could buy helmets for every Thai person in Bangkok!  Then raise the salaries of the police so they don't need bribes.  Then fire any cop that takes a bribe.  In that order.  The money would come from taxes on the wealthy elites.  Problem solved.  But I am a guest here, so my personal solution is to buy a helmet, get a driver license, and smile when I am stopped at every checkpoint.  "Sorry I no drink."  

Your a guest here???????? Since when did the Thai government treat westerners as "guests"?

[Don Mega]

Don't you have to be 18 to obtain a vehicle licence and buy alcohol in Thailand ?

[wealthychef]

27 minutes ago, possum1931 said:

Your a guest here???????? Since when did the Thai government treat westerners as "guests"?

When they issued me a visa, it means to me I'm a trusted guest in their house.  I promise not to make their home worse.  If you want to look down on Thailand, then you have to be a better person than any you meet on the street.  Good luck with that!  

[wealthychef]

3 hours ago, nchuckle said:

I wear a full face Arai helmet and protective motorcycle gloves on a fairly new machine with everything visibly working. I’m never stopped.

 

That's because they cannot see your skin. 

[NoshowJones]

1 minute ago, wealthychef said:

When they issued me a visa, it means to me I'm a trusted guest in their house.  I promise not to make their home worse.  If you want to look down on Thailand, then you have to be a better person than any you meet on the street.  Good luck with that!  

Speaking for myself, I am not looking down on Thailand, the Thai government are looking down on me forcing me to report to them every 90 days, they are treating me like a criminal, not a guest. My 90 day report. "yes Sir" stomp stomp.

Like many other expats, I would never have come to Thailand the way it is today living under a dictatorship.

[outsider]

On 12/30/2019 at 2:04 PM, edwinchester said:

.. give those sat in the roadside tents a week of overtime and little else.

 

A week of overtime plus a free-for-all, collect-all-the-tea-money-you-can opportunity. That's all they're getting as far as an annual bonus is concerned.

 

[wgdanson]

7 hours ago, mickey rat said:

Perhaps officials could also eye children driving without license and not wearing crash helmet. Selling alcohol to children should be a criminal offense period. 

IT IS!

[Chongalulu]

33 minutes ago, wealthychef said:

When they issued me a visa, it means to me I'm a trusted guest in their house.  I promise not to make their home worse.  If you want to look down on Thailand, then you have to be a better person than any you meet on the street.  Good luck with that!  

It certainly doesn’t mean that to them,it just means they think you have enough money for the next year but as soon as they think you might not have ,you’re gone whether you have a wife or children or whatever. If you’re 'trusted' why do you have to pointlessly report every 90 days or fill out a form if you leave the province for a night? I’m certainly a far greater contributor to Thailand than the vast majority on the street.

[dallen52]

Not just underage. 

Many 7/11 sell at any time of the day t anyone who has the cash.

[sherwood]

18 minutes ago, dallen52 said:

Not just underage. 

Many 7/11 sell at any time of the day t anyone who has the cash.

Sorry mate, not that I have seen. 

Even for CASH, I have tried

[Cake Monster]

On 12/30/2019 at 12:57 PM, BritManToo said:

I'll take my Lao Kao in an empty 'Red Bull' bottle please.

How could they possibly stop the 'Mom and Pop' stores from selling this?

When it is possible to buy 20 baht of Lao Kao from a Mini Mart at 5 am, which is sold in a Red Bull Bottle to disguise the contents , there is little hope of stopping the Drink Driving.

However, its not the Young that mainly buy there Lao Kao like this, its the older, manual workers from Building sites Etc.

Again,another Knee Jerk reaction , but the wrong Knee from the Gov,t

 

 

 

[BestB]

I do not know what is more worrying. Fact that they believe it is underage who cause all the deaths or that underage are allowed to drive 

[wealthychef]

1 hour ago, nchuckle said:

It certainly doesn’t mean that to them,it just means they think you have enough money for the next year but as soon as they think you might not have ,you’re gone whether you have a wife or children or whatever. If you’re 'trusted' why do you have to pointlessly report every 90 days or fill out a form if you leave the province for a night? I’m certainly a far greater contributor to Thailand than the vast majority on the street.

 

 I agree they should not track you and all those things.  It is quite annoying but I am not so worried as others;  I have money so I just pay someone to do it for me.  Add that money to your rent and you still are staying here super cheap.  As far as suspicious tracking, I'm from the USA so I'm used to my government spying on me and lying to me.  As I always tell myself, if Thailand had their act together it would be far more expensive to live here. 

[RJRS1301]

Why is it only 7 days?

Firstly enforce the current laws on obtaining and retaining a valid licence

Helemts and licences for those of age

Confiscation of vehicles for unlicenced drivers/riders vehicles

Enforce laws against riding in back of pickups

Overloading of baht buses

Speeding camera at all traffic lights

Immediate suspension of licence and confiscation of vehicle ( for 24 hours) for those over the blood alcohol level

 

 

 

[UTH001]

1 hour ago, RJRS1301 said:

Why is it only 7 days?

Firstly enforce the current laws on obtaining and retaining a valid licence

Helemts and licences for those of age

Confiscation of vehicles for unlicenced drivers/riders vehicles

Enforce laws against riding in back of pickups

Overloading of baht buses

Speeding camera at all traffic lights

Immediate suspension of licence and confiscation of vehicle ( for 24 hours) for those over the blood alcohol level

 

 

 

You are thinking FIRST WORLD, haha! Fully agree of course with your points but one thing that I will never EVER understand: How can a parent let a 12 year old (or younger....) ride a motorbike, without wearing a helmet, without a valid license and without insurance cover?

[wgdanson]

4 hours ago, wgdanson said:

IT IS!

What's confusing you UTH001?

[Borzandy]

I didn't know the underage are allowed to drive.

[mikebell]

An easy target ripe with possibilities for tea-money.  The difficult but effective way to reduce daily road-kill figures is to get among the bad road users and pull them over.  This won't happen as the cops are inherently lazy with a leadership concerned only with doubling his salary through bribes.

[transam]

On 12/30/2019 at 1:22 PM, darksidedog said:

If they were to crackdown on seatbelts, helmets and drink driving the whole year round, people might start to get the message. We have our hopelessly incompetent, tea money collecting farce of a police force to blame for the complete disregard Thais have for road laws and safety. Hoping to "fix it" with a 7 day effort is beyond stupidity.

 

 

You are correct, but the BiB, their controllers, just ain't interested....????

[ChipButty]

This morning I was behind a car that was all over the road the road was 2 lanes I thought ive got to get pasted this clown I saw the sticker on the back of the car so I know who it belongs to it was a hire care, as Im driving by I look and a kid of no more than 12 years old driving the car and Im not joking,

When I got home I called the owners of the car just to let them know what I'd seen

What parents were thinking about letting the kid drive......?

[chama]

On 12/30/2019 at 1:04 AM, edwinchester said:

On my trip to visit friends yesterday we passed through many checkpoints as did countless helmetless motorcycle riders. Didn't see one of them stopped.

The whole 'safety effort' at New Year is an absolute farce and seems set-up to give those sat in the roadside tents a week of overtime and little else.

The plan is good....enforcement sucks. Getting the rank and file of the RTP to do anything is next to impossible. This is amplified if it impacts the amount of Tea Money that is being accumulated in the pockets of those responsible for enforcement.

[bristolgeoff]

good luck in the villages the lo cal shop will sell it to the young ones and give it too the  older ones.if old enough be given a taste as well.they will know if a stranger comes in the shop as well and they know who are the police too.so that is not the way to control this issue.in the cities maybe they have control

[ThaiWai]

Nonsense.  When I was drunk I would send my gf's 12 year old son out on my motorbike to buy me more booze.  Safety first.

[RJRS1301]

1 hour ago, ThaiWai said:

Nonsense.  When I was drunk I would send my gf's 12 year old son out on my motorbike to buy me more booze.  Safety first.

12 year old, no licence or insurance , very responsible adult you are

I hope your post was tongue in cheek

[Fred white]

5 minutes ago, RJRS1301 said:

12 year old, no licence or insurance , very responsible adult you are

I hope your post was tongue in cheek

Probably not my wife's grandson would go to the corner store and buy beer for me of course he also rides to school with his little brother on the same motorcycle no helmet

[ParkerN]

On 12/30/2019 at 1:22 PM, darksidedog said:

If they were to crackdown on seatbelts, helmets and drink driving the whole year round, people might start to get the message. We have our hopelessly incompetent, tea money collecting farce of a police force to blame for the complete disregard Thais have for road laws and safety. Hoping to "fix it" with a 7 day effort is beyond stupidity.

 

 

Yes, well, stupidity has never been known to interfere with a perfectly good (if stupid) idea for a press announcement. Not in Thailand, where everyone else is just catching up..