Five day road death toll rises to 256 as mass return to Bangkok begins

 

 

The death toll in road accidents over the past five days has increased to 256 in 2,529 accidents, with 12 deaths in Bangkok, the most in any province, according to the Directorate Centre to Prevent and Reduce Road Accidents during the New Year festival.

 

42 people died on New Year’s Eve and 567 others were injured, bringing the total number of injured for the five days to 2,588.  Drunk driving accounted for 32.29% of the accidents, followed by 29.52% being due to excessive speeds, and 80.97% of all accidents involved motorcycles.

 

Chiang Mai had the highest number of accidents over the five days at 76 and had the highest number injured at 77.

 

Mr. Veera Khengkasikarn, an inspector-general of the Education Ministry, said today (Wednesday) that he expected a large number of people to start travelling back to Bangkok or to their homes today, and that this will cause congestion on main highways and inter-provincial roads.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/five-day-road-death-toll-rises-to-256-as-mass-return-to-bangkok-begins/

 

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Another successful campaign over the holiday period.

 

Maybe they should extend the campaign a little, a year or so might do it. Only this time actually do something like breathe testing lots of people including bus drivers, taxi drivers motorcycle riders, not forgetting Mercedes and BMW drivers. Then when someone fails, take them to court where, hopefully, they will be treated harshly.

Can  they give  us next years figures and plan in advance...............I need a  good  laugh,I liked the chicken stock ballcocks  from last  year best

Just read a report a few minutes ago that in Ireland (pop. 6,572 mil) a total of 159 (one hundred and fifty nine) people died on the roads in 2019(!). That's 1 in 438,133 spread out over 365 days. 

Here, in the Land of Smiles, 256 people died on the roads in just 5 days. That's 1 in 271,203 spread out over 5 days! Now, I'm no mathematician or statistician, so maybe my approach isn't right, but, those are pretty disturbing numbers. 

AND, let's not forget that Songkran, another time of the year when the death toll skyrockets, is only three and a half months away. 

 

 

6 hours ago, djayz said:

Just read a report a few minutes ago that in Ireland (pop. 6,572 mil) a total of 159 (one hundred and fifty nine) people died on the roads in 2019(!). That's 1 in 438,133 spread out over 365 days. 

Here, in the Land of Smiles, 256 people died on the roads in just 5 days. That's 1 in 271,203 spread out over 5 days! Now, I'm no mathematician or statistician, so maybe my approach isn't right, but, those are pretty disturbing numbers. 

AND, let's not forget that Songkran, another time of the year when the death toll skyrockets, is only three and a half months away.

According to the table on wiki showing traffic-related deaths per 100,000 inhabitants:

Ireland 4.1

Thailand 32.7

 

Don't forget though, as mentioned above 81% of these figures are from motorcycles.

I don't know if my logic is correct here, but excluding motorcycles, that makes it 32.7 x 0.19 = 6.2 deaths per 100K capita.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate

 

P.S. I see the population of Ireland is listed as 4.9 million here:

source: https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/ireland-population/

 

9 hours ago, djayz said:

Just read a report a few minutes ago that in Ireland (pop. 6,572 mil) a total of 159 (one hundred and fifty nine) people died on the roads in 2019(!). That's 1 in 438,133 spread out over 365 days. 

Here, in the Land of Smiles, 256 people died on the roads in just 5 days. That's 1 in 271,203 spread out over 5 days! Now, I'm no mathematician or statistician, so maybe my approach isn't right, but, those are pretty disturbing numbers. 

AND, let's not forget that Songkran, another time of the year when the death toll skyrockets, is only three and a half months away. 

 

 

Try the ones with  no  lights  who according to some I should  not startle as I go  past them in case they take  offence no doubt.

10 hours ago, Chang_paarp said:

Another successful campaign over the holiday period.

 

Maybe they should extend the campaign a little, a year or so might do it. Only this time actually do something like breathe testing lots of people including bus drivers, taxi drivers motorcycle riders, not forgetting Mercedes and BMW drivers. Then when someone fails, take them to court where, hopefully, they will be treated harshly.

And cancel their driving licenses, then bust them for driving without a licence, with no possibility of the company paying little brown envelopes to avoid fines for unlicensed drivers, which is how it's done now.

11 hours ago, djayz said:

AND, let's not forget that Songkran, another time of the year when the death toll skyrockets, is only three and a half months away. 

And let's not forget next week and the week after when the road toll is no different! Up to them!

 

 

Edited January 1, 20206 yr by PatOngo

3 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

And let's not forget next week and the week after when the road toll is no different! Up to them!

 

 

Nah, statistically the road toll is lower than average during these "deadly days" campaigns so next week and the week after the number will rise.

3 hours ago, Chazar said:

Try the ones with  no  lights  who according to some I should  not startle as I go  past them in case they take  offence no doubt.

Are you sure you didn't mishear them, and it was said they might crash into the fence?

13 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

Are you sure you didn't mishear them, and it was said they might crash into the fence?

I  live in hope..at  least with the fence they  might  live and learn ....hmmmmmmmmmmaybe  not

Let us not forget that the number of deaths is only at the scene of the accident.

In Hua Hin, talking to a policeman yesterday they caught 41 drunk drivers on one day last weekend. On new years eve they caught 30 + in a roadblock on soi 94.

The difference was that these were apparently manned by Royal Thai Police, and the Army, as opposed to constable plod. So there were no trips to ATM's, just straight to police station and court. 

14 hours ago, djayz said:

Just read a report a few minutes ago that in Ireland (pop. 6,572 mil) a total of 159 (one hundred and fifty nine) people died on the roads in 2019(!). That's 1 in 438,133 spread out over 365 days. 

Here, in the Land of Smiles, 256 people died on the roads in just 5 days. That's 1 in 271,203 spread out over 5 days! Now, I'm no mathematician or statistician, so maybe my approach isn't right, but, those are pretty disturbing numbers. 

AND, let's not forget that Songkran, another time of the year when the death toll skyrockets, is only three and a half months away. 

 

 

I'm no mathematician, either.  But I don't think New Year or Songkran make a lot of difference; every day is carnage day in Thailand, it's just more publicised during those periods.

14 hours ago, djayz said:

Just read a report a few minutes ago that in Ireland (pop. 6,572 mil) a total of 159 (one hundred and fifty nine) people died on the roads in 2019(!). That's 1 in 438,133 spread out over 365 days. 

Here, in the Land of Smiles, 256 people died on the roads in just 5 days. That's 1 in 271,203 spread out over 5 days! Now, I'm no mathematician or statistician, so maybe my approach isn't right, but, those are pretty disturbing numbers. 

AND, let's not forget that Songkran, another time of the year when the death toll skyrockets, is only three and a half months away. 

 

 

Nice statistics but this ain't Ireland or any other country... This is Thailand and they do it their way!

They don't want change.

15 hours ago, Chazar said:

Can  they give  us next years figures and plan in advance...............I need a  good  laugh

Can't go wrong with target of 555

16 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

Drunk driving accounted for 32.29% of the accidents

In other words: the remaining 67.71% causing accidents not being drunk. Brake failures or brain failures???

16 hours ago, Chang_paarp said:

Another successful campaign over the holiday period.

 

Maybe they should extend the campaign a little, a year or so might do it. Only this time actually do something like breathe testing lots of people including bus drivers, taxi drivers motorcycle riders, not forgetting Mercedes and BMW drivers. Then when someone fails, take them to court where, hopefully, they will be treated harshly.

Yes odd beings that drive Mercedes and BMWs. Today on my PCX 150 I was washed away by the passing back draft of wind as these vehicles doing in excess of 120 kph in and 80 zone and they all had Bangkok plates on the cars.

1 hour ago, RichardColeman said:

Can't go wrong with target of 555

Only figures that change daily are fatalities and accidents; other stats seem to say same dribble.

Lets look at these numbers  256 dead 2529 injured. Lets say 10% of those injured will die in hospital. 252 more dead Then lets say 15% will either be paralyzed, Brain damage loss of limbs etc That is another 380 roughly. Total for 7 days  dead and crippled about 890  people Just amazing and what is the government and police response. Put dummies beside the road to try and scare the drivers Looks like they were not scared enough. Maybe they should look at driver education and start enforcing the law harder

The brutal carnage continues unabated.  Lack of law enforcement year round in favor of tea money exercises will do that.  RIP

40,000 Baht in Phuket for drink driving if you dont want to go to the police station, so I was told

Driving home from Isaan yesterday I found the traffic heavy but well mannered( except for the usually idiots) and those grandstanding police check points, which are only set up to shake down motorists and cause more congestion....memo to police ,,''stand down boys, just clear the roads quickly after the carnage, becaue this Thailand road kill lottery will never ever change''..ps those silly cardboard cut out chase cars are hilarious...

Edited January 2, 20206 yr by mok199